Our Mission

Venture capitalists invested $48.3B in 4,356 deals in 2014, an increase of 61% in dollars invested over 2013. While more money is pouring into technology, fewer women have access to the dollars invested. Only 2.7% of the companies that raised VC money had female CEOs, an abysmal number by any yardstick. While the number of women launching businesses is increasing drastically (a 68% increase between 1997-2014 and 2x the growth rate of businesses owned by men), the proportion of investments in female-led companies is not.* 

There is no shortage of organizations focusing on mentoring women interested in entrepreneurship. In fact, there are funds that have built their thesis around investing in female-led companies. All these efforts work in conjunction with each other, but no single organization alone is able to provide a specific toolkit that teaches female CEOs how to get access to institutional money. Launch X seeks to fulfill this need.