Five truths about being a female founder in 2025

Rarely has Silicon Valley experienced a more profound period of transformation than it has in the past handful of years. The big VC boom of 2020–2021. The great VC hangover starting in 2022. The global pandemic and its massive impact on tech adoption. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. And more recently the advent of AI, which, even in the middle of massive VC pullback in every other category, is driving ever-growing VC rounds at stratospheric valuations. 

And that’s just looking at the money.