How Women Invest
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
How Women Invest is a venture capital firm that focuses on identifying high potential women-led companies by leveraging its professional network of over 13,000 professional women. It offers starter fuel and mentoring to propel these fearless women to victory.The firm was founded in 2020 with a vision of a future where women-led companies haveaccess to capital, mentorship, and a deep network of industry experts required to successfully catapult their businesses.How Women Invest is based in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $4.1M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries How Women Invest invests in
Stages How Women Invest invests in
Countries How Women Invest invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 4 (24%)
- Software 3 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- Medical 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (24%)
- Series A 4 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erika Cramer
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Heather Jerrehian
Founding LP + Fund Advisor
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Founding LP + Fund Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Julie Castro Abrams
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Lata Setty
First Founding LP, Investor & Deal Flow Advisor
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First Founding LP, Investor & Deal Flow Advisor | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Nicole DeMeo
Fund Advisor & LP
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Fund Advisor & LP | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sage Haven develops an AI-moderated messaging and calling app designed for children in their early years online. The app issues children a dedicated Sage Haven number and routes messaging and voice calls through its platform while allowing contacts to use services like iMessage or Google Messages. Parents create and verify accounts, approve eachcontact, and supervise conversations from their own phones with alerts, recaps, and safety insights. The service uses automated content moderation to block harmful or inappropriate messages, links, images, and videos before they are sent and to guide children toward safer communication practices. It supports Wi-Fi and cellular use on iOS devices, with tools aimed at reducing exposure to online bullying, spam, and addictive usage patterns. Sage Haven operates as a public benefit corporation balancing commercial activity with a mission to improve children’s mental health and well-being. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Statusphere is an influencer marketing platform designed to help brands and influencers connect and create productive relationships. It also turns consumers into a brand's valuable marketing channel by giving them products that match their lifestyle in exchange for sharing photos and reviews with their friends. | $18.7M / Series A / Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| Trial Library is an oncology clinical trials company. | $10M / Series A / Dec 02, 2025 | ||
| Cofertility is a human-centered fertility ecosystem that provides egg donation and egg-freezing services for fertility care and third-party reproduction. The company provides a normalized and scalable method for egg donation, which transforms the financial model of egg freezing by connecting women who wish to store their eggs with families unableto conceive otherwise. By donating half, women have the opportunity to freeze their eggs at no cost. | $7.3M / Series A / Apr 10, 2025 | ||
| Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services.The company's partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small and medium business owners to ensure increasedrevenues.Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, Hello Alice is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States. | Series C / Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Narratize is an AI-Powered Storytelling Platform where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. | $2M / Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Narratize is an AI-Powered Storytelling Platform where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. | $2.1M / Seed / Dec 18, 2023 | ||
| FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios. | Jul 10, 2023 | ||
| Frictionless, carbon-neutral distribution for food and technology businesses. No need to own warehouses, or fleets. No minimum volumes. Since starting their operation in August 2022 they have fulfilled and delivered thousands of orders for business customers. | $525K / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Sylvatex has developed a renewable nano-chemistry platform that has applications in solutions for industry processing, materials stability, and fuels. Our mission is to increase the use of renewables globally, to empower a cleaner, healthier future. The first application is a fuel technology that utilizes our knowledge to scale low-cost,cleaner-burning fuels and additives by using a co-location commercial model with early strategic partners and customers in place. Sylvatex has also completed the first phase of development on a lithium ion battery processing application and has established collaborations with national labs and the USDA to expand on these applications.Growing mandates for fuels with lower emissions make the need for cleaner burning, lower cost diesel and other petroleum unavoidable. Our fuel application creates a low-carbon diesel fuel alternative that is easily scalable and cost-competitive in these depressed market prices. Sylvatex was founded by Virginia Klausmeier and is based in San Francisco, California. | $8.4M / Series A / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Bossa Invest
3 deals together
Everywhere Ventures
3 deals together
HearstLab
3 deals together
SymphonyAlpha Ventures
3 deals together
The W Fund
3 deals together
Gaingels
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does How Women Invest invest in?
How Women Invest invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at How Women Invest?
The team at How Women Invest includes Erika Cramer (Co-Founder and General Partner), Heather Jerrehian (Founding LP + Fund Advisor) and Julie Castro Abrams (Managing Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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