Women don’t receive enough VC funding. According to the Harvard Business Review, only 2.8% of VC funding in 2019 was awarded to women-led startups. In 2020, that became only 2.3%.

Furthermore, VC funding faces challenges such as the lack of control, varying ownership status, the need to showcase your product’s feasibility, and proof that it’s successful enough to warrant VC funding. If you go the usual route and choose VC funding, you stand to risk your control and ownership over the business that you’ve worked so hard to build up.

The good news is, there are alternatives to VC funding. Our Atlantic Invest arm is an alternative investing method that connects women with investors and other investor platforms.