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Funding Friday, May 29, 2026 at 11:31 AM

PayPal veteran launches Aequitas Invest, women-focused venture fund to close VC gender gap

A former PayPal exec and Navy officer co-founded Aequitas Invest, a new venture fund targeting women-owned and women-led AI and enterprise software startups. The fund addresses persistent funding disparity: women-founded companies receive less than 2% of total VC capital despite strong exit multiples.

The fund pools capital from angels, family offices, and institutional LPs frustrated by traditional VC's pattern-matching bias. For portfolio companies, the thesis is operational expertise + access to acquirers and pilots that traditional funds overlook.

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