✉️ Letter from the Editor

We’re thirty weeks into WINS LIST—that’s just 10 weeks short of a full term pregnancy.

It’s amazing what you can build in 30 weeks with a laptop, a few cloud-based tools, a compelling goal, and a little bit of discipline.

I am incredibly proud to share that we have tracked roughly 470 capital events involving female founders—400 raises, 68 new funds, and 84 athlete deals—accounting for over $30 billion in disclosed capital flow.

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Our single stream of women-led deals has opened some exclusive doors for me as a writer and business owner of 10+ years. As of yesterday, in addition to Inc., I am now writing for ForbesWomen.

This means that I will be giving even more shine to women founders and investors. Across the two outlets, I’ll be covering new funds, compelling founder stories, and current trends in the venture ecosystem.

I could not be more excited, terrified, and grateful for these opportunities.

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~$1.23B in disclosed startup funding went to 14 companies with one or more verified female founder this week, led by TypeSafe AI's Series A and Vinci's Series B.

PSV Tech closed its €56M Fund II, led by Helle Uth and Christel Piron.

Athletes Lisa Leslie, Sha'Carri Richardson, Champ Bailey, Paige Spiranac, Taylor Townsend, Zach Kurtz, and Kam Curl all made capital moves this week.

🎯 Notable Data Points

Funding rounds raised by companies with one or more women founders

TypeSafe AI (Sasha Sheng) raised $870M Series A at a $7.5B valuation for Jev, its AI model for software automation, led by Andreessen Horowitz. —AICoder, Oct 9

Vinci (Dr. Sarah Osentoski) raised $250M Series B at a $1.5B valuation to grow its physics-simulation software that models how chips and other hardware behave under real-world conditions, co-led by Advent International, Temasek, and Xora Innovation. —Runtime Wire, Oct 6

Healthleap (Jemima Meyer) raised $38M in combined Seed and Series A funding to scale its AI platform that mines clinical notes, labs, and vitals to flag hospital patients who may have undiagnosed conditions like malnutrition and delirium, co-led by Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. —TechCrunch, Oct 7

Wally (Chelsea Patel) raised $25M Series A to expand its subscription dental-membership platform offering unlimited cleanings and diagnostics without insurance, led by Maveron. —PR Newswire, Oct 7

hiyo (Cygne Cooper) raised an oversubscribed $20.8M Series B to expand retail and nightlife distribution of its non-alcoholic "social tonic" drinks, led by Constellation Brands. —Brewbound, Oct 2

Altro Health (Andrea Corleto) raised $7M Seed to grow its platform letting gyms, trainers, and medspas offer clients peptides, GLP-1s, hormone therapy, and lab testing, led by NFX. —Dealroom, Oct 6

Verso (Lydia Bellahouel) raised $6M Seed to grow its AI platform that turns consumer research into usable business intelligence, led by Angular Ventures. —Tech.eu, Oct 8

Phinity Labs (Sonya Jin) raised $5.2M Seed to grow its AI agents that design chips directly from text prompts, led by Uncork Capital. —Dealroom, Oct 9

Nettle (Katya Kinane) raised an oversubscribed $4.8M Seed to grow its AI software that flags commercial-insurance risks before a site visit and speeds up loss-control inspections for insurers like Allianz, led by MTech. —Tech Funding News, Oct 6

Egoist Machines (Erin McGurk) raised $3M Seed to launch its "AI Passport," which makes a user's personal context portable and reusable across AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini while the user retains ownership, backed by Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, a European family office, and angel scientists from DeepMind and Meta. —Dealroom, Oct 8

Finches (Catharina van Delden, Dr. Stefanie Glenn, Alexandra Vázquez Bea) raised €2M (~$2.2M) Pre-Seed to grow its AI early-warning platform that flags crop-failure and supply-chain risk for food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics buyers, co-led by High-Tech Gründerfonds and Vanagon Ventures. —Tech Funding News, Oct 8

Sensori (Shanna Pearre, Darean Rhodes) closed an oversubscribed Pre-Seed round of ~$1M funded entirely by creators, community members, and professional athletes to grow their functional non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverage brand. —Yahoo Finance, Sept 30

GLORIAH (Jessica-Rose Watson, Isla Wynne Thomas) raised an oversubscribed £600K (~$793K) Seed round to scale its intimate-wellness product line across the UK and US, led by Gabriel Investment Syndicate. —Dealroom, Oct 5

Freyya (Dr. Gabriele "Gabi" Niederauer) closed an oversubscribed Pre-Seed round (amount not disclosed) to advance FDA milestones for its pelvic-floor monitoring wearable, led by Alamo Angels. —Utah Business, Sep 30

PSV Tech (Helle Uth, Christel Piron) brought Fund II to its final close at €56M, backing early-stage Nordic tech startups — often as their first institutional investor, before product-market fit — across AI, software, and digital infrastructure. —EU-Startups, Oct 8

Athlete-backed capital moves that caught our attention this week

This section is contributed by Christie Lenox.

Lisa Leslie, Sha’Carri Richardson, Champ Bailey, Carlos Dunlap, Ryan Clark, Braxton Berrios, Aury Cruz, Phil Dalhausser, Tri Bourne, Melissa Ortiz, Anne O’Neil, and Ros Gold-Onwude joined the ownership group of LOVB Miami, the league’s 10th professional team. The ownership group is led by Suprette, Jett Sports, Fifth Down Capital, Chase and Stephanie Coleman, and Jackie Garcia.

Zach Kurtz’s Agentiq raised $4 million in corporate seed funding led by defy.vc, alongside participation from a group led by the owner of two major European football clubs. The company enables fans to invest in professional athletes’ future earnings.

Paige Spiranac partnered with golf media and commerce company Pro Shop Holdings to launch Paige Co. through a long-term joint venture. Spiranac also took an equity stake in Pro Shop Holdings and will serve as co-owner, strategic partner, and talent across its media, IP, and product ecosystem.

Taylor Townsend and Kam Curl joined the cap table of Sensori, a non-alcoholic functional beverage brand that secured an oversubscribed $1 million pre-seed round funded entirely by creators, community members, and professional athletes. The cap table also includes athlete management firm ECOS Group, which facilitated athlete equity ownership in exchange for direct capital and brand activations.

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