Markets can’t price what they can’t see.

We built The Other 80. because the market continues to price female founders using lagging data.

Since 2018, venture capital has split the same way every year: about 80% to all-male teams, 18% to co-ed teams and 2% to female founders. That 2% figure gets repeated on every panel and in every report. Then the system that produces it carries on unchanged.

Meanwhile the performance data points the other way. Female and co-ed founding teams generate more revenue per dollar invested and deliver stronger portfolio returns, according to research from BCG, PitchBook and the Kauffman Foundation.

If performance is stronger but allocation is lower, something structural is wrong in how deal flow is surfaced.

This isn’t a moral argument. It’s an economic one. The gap isn’t a lack of activity. It’s a lack of visibility into what’s already happening.

When deal flow is visible, allocation becomes accountable.

Infrastructure, not discussion

Markets don’t correct through panels. They correct through infrastructure, data and transparency. The Other 80. is that layer: a live index of verified female founders actively raising capital, so the market can act on what’s happening instead of studying what already happened.

How the index works

• Founders self-submit. Free. Takes 60 seconds. No pitch deck required.
• Two-step verification. An automatic check that the founder’s LinkedIn and company website are real, then a manual review: the photo, the name matching the submission and the title on the profile.
• Visibility for founders. Founders raising right now get seen by the investors and allocators using the index.
• Discovery for investors. An intelligence layer on top of existing pipelines, surfacing verified founders raising right now that the market is currently missing.