The sluggish yr for mission capital investment hasn’t hit female-led firms as arduous as one would possibly be expecting.

Startups with a minimum of one lady on the helm raised $20.8 billion in investment all through the primary part of 2022, in step with Pitchbook information. That degree is somewhat below the $22.17 billion raised by way of female-led firms all through the primary six months of 2021, a file yr for mission capital that noticed greater than $49.04 billion raised. 

That power amongst feminine founders in fundraising is most commonly because of mixed-gender management groups. Firms with each female and male founders made up 18 p.c a bet capital offers and accounted for 15 p.c of all investment within the first part of 2022. 3-quarters of this yr’s offers up to now and over 80 p.c of investment have long past to all-male groups.

Startups led solely by way of ladies lag at the back of. Firms with all-female founders accounted for simplest 6.9 p.c of offers all through the primary part of 2022, and that quantity marked a decade top. All-female groups won simply 2 p.c of investment, elevating $2.75 billion within the first part of the yr. That quantity is down from $3.66 billion within the first part of 2021 and $4.13 billion in the second one part.

In one of the vital maximum notable offers secured by way of feminine founders, Kari Nadeau and Ashley Dombkowski raised $119 million for Alladapt Immunotherapeutics, their Menlo Park, California biotech corporate serious about growing FDA-approved therapies for meals hypersensitive reactions. Raise Ok-12, a Chicago-based live-streaming schooling supplier led by way of Shaily Baranwal, raised $40 million in a Collection C investment spherical.