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October 25, 2022

Good news for startup women: Austria's Female Founders is raising a €20m fund

Fund F will back pre-seed and seed-stage companies with at least one female cofounder


Lisa-Marie Fassl (left) and Nina Wöss

For all the song and dance being made in the tech industry about supporting female founders, women are still only getting a smidgen of the total VC funding invested into startups.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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