Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Women owned startups worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,488 women owned startups worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 28,440 professional contacts across them, including 2,708 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers women owned startups worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for women owned startups follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest women owned startups worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,977 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chief is a community of ambitious women executives shaping the new era of leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 575 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A community for those passionate about gender equity in tech, providing access to resources, networking & mentoring opportunities, and so much more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 282 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Entreprenista | The All-in-One Platform for Women Founders Entreprenista is the most supportive platform built by women founders, for women founders-offering real-world resources…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wedu nurtures and invests in women’s purposeful leadership journeys and mobilises allies and communities toward a feminist future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden Seeds is an investment firm dedicated to pursuing market returns through the empowerment of women entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EnCompass is an established, women-owned business delivering leading-edge, integrated, and technology-enabled solutions that drive operational excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Katalyst India, an award-winning NGO, stands for the economic empowerment of women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Women in Technology (WIT) creates possibilities for more women to explore, pursue, persist, and lead in technology careers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A RME - Rede Mulher Empreendedora tem como propósito empoderar empreendedoras, garantindo independência financeira e de decisão sobre seus negócios e suas vidas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O maior ecossistema da América Latina para desenvolvimento de carreiras femininas, que já impulsionou mais de 25 mil mulheres para liderança em mais de 50 organizações líderes de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “How Women Invest is a venture firm, and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Girls Into VC is dedicated to increasing the number of women in venture capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empowering 1M women entrepreneurs to achieve $1M revenue • Catalyzing ambitious goals and audacious dreams • Building a global network of visionary women • Giving first, sharing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NOSSA MISSÃO: Contribuir para o desenvolvimento de mulheres que buscam suporte na construção de sua carreira ou negócios e apoio para aumentar sua performance e identificar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HearstLab is a mission-focused corporate venture fund dedicated to closing the gender gap in VC by investing in early-stage women-led technology startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Playbook A private network for women to connect, learn and invest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A AngelUs é uma equity tech B2B2C dedicada a transformar o mercado de trabalho, impulsionando a equidade de gênero e desenvolvendo a liderança feminina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Aspire For Her, where you will find more than just a network of like-minded women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Athena, we believe career care is self care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arya Yatırım Platformu, kadın girişimcileri; yatırım, eğitim, etkinlik, mentorlük ve danışmanlık programları ile destekleyen birliktelik zekası platformudur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On rêve de l'avènement d'un entrepreneuriat féministe, et on agit tous les jours pour que ça se concrétise!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Women's Equity Lab (WEL) is a fun, collaborative and empowering way for women to actively engage in early-stage investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Women in Digital is a community organisation dedicated to connecting, educating and empowering women in digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Visit our portal at to join hands with us in empowering women to become financially independent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: women owned startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names women owned startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of women owned startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name women owned startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Women owned startups worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among women owned startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for women owned startups are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “women owned startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names women owned startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among women owned startups, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,708 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Women owned startups by location
16 lists · largest firstEvery Women owned startups list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Women owned startups based in the United States1,182
- Women owned startups based in the United Kingdom263
- Women owned startups based in Brazil226
- Women owned startups based in India193
- Women owned startups based in Canada176
- Women owned startups based in France173
- Women owned startups based in Australia115
- Women owned startups based in Germany93
- Women owned startups based in the Netherlands78
- Women owned startups based in South Africa71
- Women owned startups based in the United Arab Emirates42
- Women owned startups based in Mexico30
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names women owned startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many women owned startups are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,488 women owned startups worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CHIEF, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most women owned startups?
The United States leads with 1,182 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (263) and Brazil (226). Every women owned startups list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most women owned startups?
London leads with 141 headquartered companies, followed by New York (92) and Sao Paulo (69).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,708 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,488 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.