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This Week in Startups

Women in venture capital + SpringEats.com CEO Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner (Climate) | E1460

May 15, 2022
01:20:21

In VC Sunday School we discuss Pitchbook's data on women-led VC funds (03:16), how much money they've raised and how the industry is evolving. Then, Jason explains why new fund managers often have more success with individual LPs than institutional LPs (27:12). In This Week in Climate Startups Molly speaks with Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner of Springeats.com, a zero-waste grocery service (38:31).


(00:00) Jason and Molly introduce today’s show
(03:16) VC Sunday School: PitchBook gathered a bunch of data for The Information about women-led VC funds
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(14:19) VCSS: Q1 2022, 199 funds raised $73.8B in commitments; 8% of total funding raised from women-led funds
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(27:12) VCSS: Taking the backdoor for raising
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(35:47) Wrapping up VCSS
(36:37) Toss to This Week in Climate Startups
(38:31) TWiCS: Molly speaks with Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner of springeats.com (zero-waste grocery service)

Check out Spring: https://www.springeats.com

FOLLOW Anukampa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anukampafreedomguptafonner
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis
FOLLOW Molly: https://twitter.com/mollywood

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