WINS LIST has tracked $6.9B in founder raises + $9.2B in new funds since March.

These totals include over 500 capital events led by women founders and investors.

⭐ This week we’re introducing By The Numbers, a high level summary of the capital events of the week.

🔑 Key takeaways:

🏆 Athletes on the Cap Table highlights capital moves by Aliyah Boston, Udonis Haslem, and Sania Mirza.

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A snapshot of this week's capital activity across founder raises and new funds

Founder raises by round type:

New funds by fund number:

Funding rounds raised by companies with one or more women founders

No disclosed raises of $100M+ this week.

Epicrispr Biotechnologies (Amber Salzman) raised $90M Series C in an oversubscribed round led by Octagon Capital and Janus Henderson Investors.

Remepy (Michal Tsur) raised $36M Series A to pair prescription medicines with therapeutic software, co-led by O.G. Venture Partners and M Ventures.

Silicon Data (Carmen Li) raised $30.5M Series A to expand its real-time compute pricing data platform, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund.

Pathway (Zuzanna Stamirowska, Claire Nouet) raised $30M Seed at a $500M valuation to develop a post-transformer AI architecture built around latent reasoning and long-term memory, backed by Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment Co.

Ambrook (Mackenzie Burnett) raised $30M Series B to expand financial management tools for family-run businesses, led by Lachy Groom.

ChronicleBio (Fidji Simo) raised $15M to develop AI-powered treatments for complex chronic diseases, beginning with POTS, backed by Wisdom Ventures, Portfolia, Tensor Ventures, and Tarsadia Investments.

AGent Energy (Stephanie Hendricks, Françoise Parker) raised $11M Seed to connect backup generators to the electric grid during emergencies, led by Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures.

Opal Therapeutics (Morgan M. Stanton) secured a $1.25M NSF SBIR Phase II award to advance its patient-derived gynecologic drug screening platform.

Astute (Vida Stanic) raised $1.2M Pre-Seed to help B2B companies identify and manage partnerships with newsletter, podcast, and social creators, backed by Flyer One Ventures, Silicon Gardens, Marathon Fund, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.

WashWise (Maria Cabral Menezes) raised $1.2M Pre-Seed to expand its clothing-care brand, led by FJ Labs and Singh Capital.

Echovane (Smriti Gupta) raised $1M Pre-Seed to develop its AI-powered market research platform, co-led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund.

DR. VIVIEN KARL (Dr. Vivien Karl, Julia Huhnholz) raised an undisclosed Seed round to expand its intimate-care brand, led by zwei.7 and DvH.

Unwell (Alex Cooper) raised its first outside funding at a $500M pre-money valuation, giving the media company founded by podcast host Alex Cooper a new capital base for expansion. The amount raised was not disclosed.

Capital moves by women-owned and led VC funds

Accel (Sonali De Rycker) raised $3.5B across four funds spanning global expansion, U.S., Europe and Israel, and India. The new capital includes a $1.35B global expansion fund, $800M for U.S. startups, $800M for European and Israeli startups, and $550M for Indian startups.

Reach Capital (Jennifer Carolan) closed a $265M Fund V to back founders building AI applications that can “expand human potential.

Team8 Capital (Sarit Firon) raised $265M for its third fund to invest in early-stage AI-native companies across cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health, plus more than $100M for follow-on investments.

WovenEarth Ventures (Jane Woodward) raised $155M for its second fund focused on cleantech.

GEM (Kate Simpson) closed its $82M Seed & Micro Venture Fund.

Athlete-backed capital moves that caught our attention this week

This section is contributed by Christie Lenox.

Sequel (Greta Meyer, Amanda Calabrese), the women's health company behind an FDA-cleared spiral tampon, added Aliyah Boston as an equity co-owner, bringing a WNBA star directly onto the cap table.

Ipswich Town FC added NBA legend Udonis Haslem as a minority owner. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Terra-Invest added six-time Grand Slam champion Sania Mirza in an investment leadership role focused on longevity, preventive health, and sports performance.

Every week, we track the capital flowing to and from women-founded companies.

This week's signals point to three trends worth watching:

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