In their recently published report “All In: Female Founders in the European VC Ecosystem” PitchBook revealed the top 10 female-founded unicorns by most recent post-money valuation.
According to the report, the number of female-founded companies reaching unicorn status for the first time has come down since 2021, but there has been a net growth in the total population of European female-founded unicorns despite headwinds.
Relex
Country: Finland
Post-money valuation ($B): €5.0
Female founder name: Johanna Småros
Relex Solutions provides a unified supply chain and retail planning platform that helps retailers, wholesale companies and consumer packaged goods manufacturers to align and optimize demand, merchandise, supply chain, and operations planning across the end-to-end value chain.
Company’s vision is to increase resiliency and efficiency in the consumer goods value chain.
Mambu
Country: Netherlands
Post-money valuation ($B): €4.9
Female founder name: Sofia Nunes
Mambu is SaaS cloud core banking platform. The company empowers it’s customers to deliver great modern financial experience easily to everyone around the world. Their customers list includes fintech start-ups, telcos and top tier banks.
The company operates on six continent and help customers constantly change the way financial institutions operate and innovate.
Blockchain.com
Country: UK
Post-money valuation ($B): €4.7
Female founder name: Mia Hylton
Blockchain.com is crypto finance house serving people, projects, protocols and institutions since 2011.
The company started as an early pioneer of key infrastructure for the bitcoin community. First, with a Blockchain Explorer that enabled anyone to not only examine transactions and study the blockchain, but an API that enabled companies to build on Bitcoin.
The company also have provided the most popular and widely used crypto wallet that enables anyone anywhere to control their own money.
Zepz
Country: UK
Post-money valuation ($B): €4.2
Female founder name: Catherine Wines
Zepz is powering two leading global payments brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave.
The company represent brands that disrupted an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by taking international money transfers online - making global digital payments fairer, faster, and more flexible.
Lendable
Country: UK
Post-money valuation ($B): €4.2
Female founder name: Victoria van Lennep
Lendable is a lending platform that makes borrowing money effortless.
Using technology, the company have made personal finance hassle-free and customer friendly, by making traditional loan application process more efficient in the digital age. The result allows company to make an instant decision, offer personalised rates, and transfer funds within minutes.
Vinted
Country: Lithuania
Post-money valuation ($B): €3.7
Female founder name: Sophie Utikal, Susanne Richter, Milda Mitkutė
Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with a growing member base of over 80 million registered members spanning 20 markets in Europe and North America.
With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life. Vinted Go is a new brand and business from Vinted, and focused on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe.
Vinted was founded in 2008 in Lithuania and in 2019 became the country’s first Unicorn.
Starling Bank
Country: UK
Post-money valuation ($B): €3.1
Female founder name: Anne Boden
Starling Bank is a British bank, occasionally referred to as a digital challenger bank or neobank, providing current and business bank accounts in the United Kingdom.
The bank offers personal, joint, and business accounts. Their services include digital banking, financial, and accounting services.
21Shares
Country: Switzerland
Post-money valuation ($B): €2.0
Female founder name: Ophelia Snyder
21Shares makes investing in digital assets as easy as buying shares using their conventional broker or bank.
Founded in 2018, 21Shares is led by a team of talented entrepreneurs and experienced professionals from the asset management and banking industry. Headquartered in Zurich, the company has launched several exchange-traded products such as HODL and Bitcoin ETP over the past year.
Scalable Capital
Country: Germany
Post-money valuation ($B): €1.9
Female founder name: Manuela Rabener
Scalable Capital was founded in 2014 and has offices in Munich, Berlin and London.
For private individuals, Scalable Capital offers a broker with a trading flat rate and interest and a digital wealth management. In digital wealth management, the company creates and manages globally diversified ETF portfolios for its clients with sustainable investment strategies when desired. The broker enables private individuals to trade stocks, ETFs, crypto, funds and more with as little as €1 and to set up ETF and stock savings plans with as little as €1.
Multiverse
Country: UK
Post-money valuation ($B): €1.8
Female founder name: Sophie Adelman
Multiverse is a tech startup that matches talent who have not graduated from college with apprenticeship opportunities.
The company’s mission is to create a diverse group of future leaders. To achieve this, they provide high-quality apprenticeship programmes that combine work, training and community.
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