Angel investor says he’ll only invest in startups that have women as founders

One angel investor wants an investment portfolio full of women.

Jonathan Sposato, a Seattle-based entrepreneur and the CEO of photo editing software PicMonkey, made a bold announcement last week at the Seattle Angel Conference that he’d only fund companies with one or more female founders.

See also: The top 13 companies for women in tech

Women often have a more difficult time securing funding—numbers from CrunchBase show that companies with female founders only make up about 19% of seed and angel investments, and that number dwindles down as companies progress to each funding stage.

But the good news is the number of female founders are on the upswing. According to that CrunchBase data, the percentage of startups with at least one female founder rose from 9.5% in 2009 to 18% in 2014 Read more…

More about Startups, Gender Gap, Women In Tech, and Business

http://ift.tt/1cpncla