Analysis

March 4, 2025

VC funding for women-founded businesses in Europe down 12% in 2024

European women-founded businesses raised just 12% of 2024’s total VC funding, the same percentage as last year

Steph Bailey

2 min read

Female founders in Europe raised just €5.76bn in 2024, according to the 2025 Female Innovation Index by Female Foundry, a venture platform of more than 7,000 investors and female founders across the continent. That represents 12% of all VC capital raised and a 12% decrease on the amount raised by female founding teams in 2023. While this is a drop, the proportion of VC funding raised by female teams compared to the total VC funding raised by all gender teams has remained the same as last year, at 12%, and is up from 2020, 2021 and 2022, when it was 10%.

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Steph Bailey

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