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Women-led businesses cropping up all over town.

AdvocacyAssociationCapitalEducationMedia

Boston Resources for Women in Business

Office of Women's

AdvancementOne City Hall Sq

Boston, MA 02201

617 635 3138

The Women's Network of the Greater Boston

Chamber265 Franklin St Floor 12

Boston, MA 02110

617 227 4500

Commonwealth Institute

186 Hampshire St Cambridge, MA 02139

617 547 4474

Boston Club

Boston, MA

781 639 8002

Center for Women & Enterprise

24 School St # 700 Boston, MA 02108

617 536 0700

The Startup Institute

179 Lincoln St Suite 405

Boston, MA 02111

888 425 5557

Dress for Success

989 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA

02215

617 779 2177

Capital WDistrict Hall

75 Northern AveBoston, MA 02210

734 606 9744

LearnLaunch1 St. James Ave

Suite 920 (9th Floor) Boston, MA 02116

857 453 4434

Boston Seed Capital

1 Marina Park Dr. #315

Boston, MA

617 658 5649

Women's iLab

Boston, MA

info@womensilab.com

406 Ventures

470 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02210

617 406 3289

Wonder Women of Boston

40 Berkeley St 2nd Floor

Boston, MA 02116

617 326 7866

Version 2.0Communications

500 Harrison AveSuite 401RBoston, MA

617 426 2222

Innovation Women

100 Tradecenter G-700

Woburn, MA 01801

781 281 8387

Ellevate (Boston Chapter)

Boston University - One Silber Way

Boston, MA 02215

781 281 8387

Babson's Women Innovating Now

(WIN) Lab75 Northern Ave.

Boston, MA 02210

781-239-5001

Nationwide, the share of women on boards and executive committees — 17 and 15 percent, respectively — hasn’t budged in years,

according to Catalyst Inc.

Corporate boardrooms in Massachusetts had more women than ever (13.8%).

Total % of organizations with women chief executives increased by 10.8% in 2013.

The majority (51%) of the Census companies in 2013 have no women executive officers.

29% of companies in the 2013 Census still have all male boards.

Source: Boston Club / Bentley University – The 2013 Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers of Massachusetts Public Companies

women-led businesses in the U.S.

7.8MILLION

Source: National Women's Business Council

in 51 Firms with revenue

of or more is woman-owned.

2000%GROWTH

1977 2002

$1 million

In 2009, 9.5% startups had at least one woman founder, but by 2014 that rate had almost doubled to 18%.

Venture-Backed Female-Founded Companies (2009-2014)

Source: US Census Bureau (2007)

WOMEN OWNED FIRMS

29.8%MASSACHUSETTS

29.7%BOSTON

Source: CrunchBase

Boston Ranks 7th

Source: CrunchBase

City

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21% (374 C ompanies)

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F oundersMale F emale

10MILLION

Women entrepreneurs are majority owners

of an estimated

36%BUSINESSES … that’s of all businesses in the United States

Source: US Small Business Administration (SBA/ 2014)

Companies with a record of promoting women are more profitable. Of the Fortune 500 companies, the top 25 companies for women demonstrated 69% higher profitability than the industry median (profit as a percentage of equity), according to Pepperdine Professor Ray Adler.

Start-ups with more female executives are more likely to succeed. Source: Dow Jones

Women are more likely than men to share their knowledge and financial gains with their family and communities, especially in developing countries/emerging markets. Investment in women’s entrepreneurship is an important way for countries to exponentially increase the impact of new venture creation.Source: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Study

It takes at least three women in the boardroom to shift the culture of a company.Source: JoAnn Cavallaro, The Boston Club, Boston Globe article January 23, 2014

Companies with a woman CEO get just 3% of venture capital.Source: 2013 Boston Club Census / Bentley University

Female angel investors contact companies more often, leading to higher returns. Source: Women 2.0 and Kauffman Foundation

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