In a venture landscape built for sameness, Foundrise is designing something different, and it's working. 

The Problem Isn’t Performance. It’s Access.

Despite endless headlines about progress, the numbers are sobering:

In Europe, female-founded startups raised €5.76B in 2024
Down 12% from 2023

In the US, all-female teams received just 1.8% of VC funding in 2023
Down from 2.1% in 2022

The gender gap isn’t narrowing. It’s widening. And yet, the data is clear, female-led companies consistently outperform their male-led counterparts in ROI and capital efficiency.

So why are we still funding the same types of founders, with the same types of ideas, from the same closed networks?

Because the system was built by, and for, one pattern of success. At Foundrise, we’re breaking that pattern, and building new ones.

Foundrise: A New Model for Early-Stage Capital

Foundrise is a women-led investment ecosystem designed to get female founders funded, and fast-track their journey from pitch deck to capital raised.

We’re not interested in tokenism. We’re interested in transactions, and we’ve already proven it works.

Through our unique approach to investor readiness, curation, and capital matchmaking, we’ve built a system that delivers:

€16M in funding secured

Verified VC and angel matches

100+ founders trained in pitch refinement and fundraising strategy

A community of high-growth, high-integrity, female-led startups

The Foundrise Formula: Where Vision Meets Venture

At the heart of Foundrise is a founder-first, investor-aligned ecosystem engineered for real results. We deliver high-impact support through three core activations, each crafted to accelerate funding conversations, strengthen investor connections, and unlock growth on both sides of the table.

Investor Readiness Retreats

Where clarity meets capital. An immersive experience that blends investor expectations with founder transformation. From pitch refinement and financial planning to strategic storytelling, plus live feedback from active investors.

Founder Dinners (Quarterly)

Intimate, high-trust spaces designed for meaningful dialogue, not staged panels. Curated to spark authentic connections between purpose-led founders and aligned investors ready to engage.

Founder Breakfasts (Monthly)

Micro-communities with macro impact. These sessions connect founders and investors in a casual but strategic setting, offering real-time insight, pitch testing, and ecosystem support, all built on trust, not performance.

Proof in the Portfolio: Validating the Model with Real Capital

In April 2024, Foundrise hosted its inaugural event in Munich, an activation designed to connect early-stage female founders with aligned investors. It wasn’t about optics. It was about outcomes.

One of those outcomes became a proof point.

Simone Sabbione, founder of meliodays medical GmbH, secured investment from Capacura, a respected European impact investor focused on socially driven innovation.

This wasn’t a symbolic handshake or a future promise. It was a confirmed capital transaction, one that demonstrated exactly what Foundrise was built to do.

Simone came prepared: her business was investor-ready, her pitch refined, her numbers clear. The environment we created, focused, trusted, and intentional did the rest.

This early success sent a clear message to the market: When the right infrastructure is in place, women get funded.

It also challenged a common myth in venture capital, that there’s a pipeline problem. What we’re seeing is not a lack of talent, but a lack of access. And with the right model, that access gap can be closed.

For Foundrise, this was a defining moment. For investors, it was a reason to look again at where the next generation of returns might come from.

And for founders like Simone, it was the capital and confidence to keep building.

What’s Next

Foundrise is now:

Scaling across Europe with Foundrise Activations.

Partnering with family offices and VCs who want access to high-quality, overlooked deal flow.

Building a replicable, data-driven capital model designed to outperform the market.