Beyond The Billion began as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 billion by 2020 in women-founded companies, rapidly increasing the funding pipeline. With the goal met in under 9 months, today, we are going Beyond The Billion to catalyze capital deployed to and with venture funds in fueling women-led innovation.
Visibility & brand: Increased exposure to global institutional and other funders such as international development funds, country funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, foundations, private equity firms, larger venture funds, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Champion a mission you believe in: Be a leading voice among the VC Community in driving returns through diversity.
Network & peer-to-peer learning: Attend various ‘Billion Dollar’ signature convenings including the Billion Dollar Breakfasts/Brunches/Brews for GPs and LPs, educational programs and curated convenings, connecting the investment community. Contribute to thought leadership produced by BTB, including annual reports with Pitchbook —the gold standard on what’s going on with women in venture in the US and beyond.
Alpha Access: To gender-lens investment opportunities, across investment stages—driving returns through diversity.
Brand & Visibility: Increased exposure to global venture funders already accelerating women-led innovation and delivering returns.
Less than 3% of venture funding goes to companies founde d by women despite clear outperformance, with >2X revenues per dollar invested.
To realize the power of women’s innovations to solve fundamental problems and deliver higher returns by focusing on driving capital towards female-founded companies and the funds that invest in them.
A global consortium of over 100 funds across 6 continents, backing female founders across stages.
11 female-founded unicorns invested in by partners in consortium (Canva, Airwallex, ClassPass, Maven Clinic, WeLab, EverlyWell, FIGS, SpringHealth, Guild Education,The RealReal and Insider)
Gender expert in venture: BTB-Pitchbook report 2020 confirms female founders exit quicker, and at higher valuations.
Over $1 billion pledged to and being actively deployed to women-founded companies since launch in Oct’18
Global campaign garnering millions of impressions featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Der Spiegel, at the United Nations and more!
“Since launching our initial fund of funds 10 years ago, Teralys is proud to have been supporting firms across sectors and geographies with senior-level women leaders amongst its ranks. Sofinnova Partners is an example of a leading international life sciences firm, with half of its managing partnership comprised of women.
Canada-focused McRock Capital and Quebec-based Cycle Capital are both founded and led by women who are actively involved in supporting the next-generation of female entrepreneurs rise through the ranks. Teralys will continue actively backing women founders, operators and investors, and through our ecosystem initiatives, increase female representation across the entire venture capital industry.”
TBDF Ventures LLC (TBDFV), the organizer of Beyond The Billion (BTB), is a company serving the global consortium of investors pledged to invest beyond $1bn collectively into women-founded technology companies and funds and firms that invest in them. BTB builds on the success of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the initial campaign co-founded by our founders. BTB is not a venture fund, an investment bank, a broker-dealer, investment clearinghouse, or an investment adviser, but rather a forum in which investors may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to companies for possible investment, in particular, those led by women. Each investor and allocator pledged to BTB’s mission is responsible for his or her own investment decisions, and neither TBDFV nor BTB recommends companies or financial products for investment. Participating funds may be highlighted to various institutional and other investors and managers, with the aim of catalyzing capital towards women-founded companies; but are not guaranteed allocations from any specific fund. The Founders of TBDFV and BTB may hold interests directly or indirectly in featured funds and associated companies. Information is obtained from participant funds, believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed by TBDFV or BTB. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.
