Kabbage Co-Founder, Kathryn Petralia Recognized by Inc

You’ve heard there are fewer women in STEM fields, or that fewer women lead technical companies. Well, the ones that do are raising significant capital to pursue their passions. I asked the analysts at Pitchbook to help me take a data-driven look at the landscape around female founders. They may be on the venture frontier, but even so, they’re defining it with bold visions that range from inspired finance to practical virtual reality to the forefront of genetics and what’s next for manufacturing.

Top-ranked women for venture capital raised in 2016.

Last year, the top-ranked female founders for raising venture capital included Sunrun, which IPO’d last year. This year, one of the top startups with a female founder has already had an IPO (Editas). See which trends you spot in this ranking of women who’ve raised hundreds of millions in venture capital in the past 12 months:

1. Kathryn Petralia, co-founder of Kabbage.

Atlanta-based Kathryn Petralia and her team have raised almost $240 million. Kabbage is a unicorn startup that helps small businesses get working capital. They’ve distributed around $2 billion in capital to their 80,000-plus customers. I highlightedKathryn’s story earlier this year.

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