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When measuring funding to startups with female founders and CEOs, the perennial takeaway is that women remain underrepresented. Last year, for instance, just 3% of U.S. funding went to startups with solely female founders.

Women-led companies appeared similarly underrepresented in the funding tallies, capturing less than 5% of investment, per preliminary 附近上门 tallies. The totals dip a bit further when narrowed to companies with both a female CEO and founder or co-founder.

Nonetheless, there are some prominent startups that fit this criteria. To illustrate, we used 附近上门 to rank five of this year鈥檚 most heavily funded companies with a female CEO and founder.

Collectively, founders of the startups profiled below span sectors from biotech to transportation, and their companies have raised over $1.9 billion.

, CEO and co-founder,

Founded: 2017

Headquarters: San Diego

Funding: Has raised over $680 million to date, including a $277 million Series D in July.

Business: Focused on advanced DNA sequencing and technology for biological research. Known for its AVITI DNA sequencer and soon-to-launch AVITI24 sequencing and cyto-profiling platform. It competes with , the incumbent leader in sequencing.

Background: He was previously a venture partner at , focused on healthcare. Before that, she was senior director of scientific research at Illumina. He holds a Ph.D. from in protein biophysics.

, CEO and founder,

Founded: 2014

Headquarters: Boston

Funding: $268 million to date, including a $200 million June financing at a $1.2 billion valuation.

Business: Develops a no-code platform to automate CRM and enterprise workflows with AI-assisted co-development capabilities.

Background: Kostereva, a Ukrainian entrepreneur, initially bootstrapped the company, formerly named Bpm鈥檕nline, before rebranding as Creatio five years ago.

, CEO and co-founder,

Founded: 2015

Headquarters: Richmond, California

Funding: Has raised $294 million to date, including a $170 million Series D in February. Filed for an IPO last week as a pre-revenue company.

Business: Develops therapies that target aging in order to increase healthy lifespan and treat metabolic diseases including obesity.

Background: Fortney has a Ph.D. in medical biophysics from the , followed by a postdoc at where she focused on the genetics of exceptional human longevity.

, CEO and co-founder,

Founded: 2018

Headquarters: San Francisco

Funding: Has raised over $350 million in known funding to date, including a $150 million Series C in July.

Business: Develops a software platform for automating compliance and risk management. Surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in its last fiscal year.

Background: Before launching Vanta, Cacioppo was product lead for 鈥檚聽 Dropbox Paper offering and worked on the investment team at . She has degrees in economics and management science, and engineering from Stanford.

, CEO and founder,

Founded: 2015

Headquarters: Redwood City, California

Funding: Has raised over $400 million in grant and equity funding to date, including a $140 million Series E in January.

Business: App and software platform for tracking and managing student transportation, with a focus on elementary, middle and high school students.

Background: Before starting Zum, Narayan was a product manager at and . She graduated from the and received a degree in computer science at the .

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