1. Addressing the Startup Gender Gap
Opportunity and Outperformance

3. The JumpFund Our Mission
To invest women’s capital in female-led companies with growth potential in order to generate strong financial returns and elevate the role of women in business.
Our Vision
To make the SE the best place for a woman to start or grow her business.

4. Stefanie Crowe, Shelley Prevost, StoneBridge CEO Torch Financial
Tiffanie Robinson, CEO
Lamp Post Properties
Betsy Brown, President, Pendleton Square Trust
Kristina Montague,
Managing Partner
The JumpFund
Cory Allison,
CEO Rezli

5. JumpFund I Launched 2013; first investments 2014 $2.5mm Angel Fund
50+ female investors, 98% Chattanooga-based
7 member General Partner, all women
Invested in: 18 women-led companies out of pipeline throughout SE

6. Challenging the Status Quo
Where are the women? We need to engage more women as early stage/angel investors.
Why are so few women on demo stages and receiving VC investment? Be the catalyst to change the landscape.

7. “There is an enormous untapped investment opportunity for venture capitalists smart enough to look at the numbers and fund women entrepreneurs.”
-- Dr. Candida Brush, Babson College
The Diana Report: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital, 2014

8. The Landscape
Women entrepreneurs represent more than 36% of all business owners in U.S. and women-led companies now account for 13% of middle-market firms*
*revenues between $10 mm and $1B

9. of Venture Capital funded companies have a woman executive
<15%
of Venture Capital funded companies have a woman executive

10. of VC-backed companies in the Southeast are women-led
<6%
of VC-backed companies in the Southeast are women-led

11. Gender Diverse Teams Outperform
VC investments with at least
one female founder
performed 63% better
than investments
with all-male founding teams.
-- First Round Capital (Fortune: July, 2015)

12. The Woman Factor
80% of consumer spending is controlled by women, including electronics & cars
Bootstrap longer & are more capital-efficient
Strong management, marketing & HR skills as co. grows
Positive influence on corporate culture (vs. CE-bro syndrome) creates more sustainable work environment
Products for women a mostly designed by men. Women’s appetite for risk -- take the long view, longer run rates. More women with management, marketing, HR and accounting degrees than entrepreneurship & finance. SheOs vs. CEbros (NYT April 2017)
VCs are seeing ROI potential -- FL investor on why choose women-led co. for returns -- Supx

13. Women investing in Women
“The gender gap in startup success disappears when women fund women.”
HBR, July 2016
Women investing in Women
The JumpFund is the ONLY angel fund with
women investing in female-led companies in the SE,
and one of only a few in the U.S.

14. SuperFan: Diverse Team, High Performance Startup
Kayla Mount, Founder/COO
1st JF investment
Diverse, well-rounded team -- marketing, ops, tech, management, fundraising/partnership dev
Building gender balanced team --

17. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
“We know that when women are successful… everyone does better. It’s not about doing the right thing around equality and pay equity, it’s about understanding that actually is the smart thing to do… It leads to better outcomes”
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Women In the World Summit, April 2017