Greater Washington startups have been raising a lot of money for the past year, and that includes a few that were founded and are led by women.
Two years after the Washington Business Journal honored Framebridge founder and CEO Susan Tynan as our CEO of the year — the record holder at the time in terms of raises by woman-owned companies — we decided to check where things stand in terms of venture capital raises by woman-owned companies.
There’s a new record holder, according to data from venture tracking platform Pitchbook: Arlington risk-management company Interos, which raked in $100 million in July for a lifetime total of $125 million and a valuation of $1 billion.
We’ve rounded up the other biggest raises by female-founded firms in the past two years in the gallery above. In terms of methodology, the data from Pitchbook focuses on firms that have at least one woman founder and a woman CEO. It also focuses on VC, so it doesn’t include firms that have raised from private equity…
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