Nous avons mené une petite enquête sur les dossiers reçus par le réseau de levées de fonds DocSend (DFN) au cours du troisième trimestre. Voyons un peu plus en détail quels types d’équipes ont levé des fonds, d’où elles viennent et quels sont leurs domaines d’innovation.
Since launching the DocSend Fundraising Network (DFN) in June of this year, we’ve received over 1,000 decks from pre-seed and seed companies looking for funding. Our pitch deck analyzer (which is the application mechanism for the DFN) has evaluated decks from all over the world from teams who are innovating across a wide range of industries. We decided to dig into the numbers from the more than 600 decks we received in Q3, and we’ve unearthed a handful of interesting findings that paint a more detailed picture about the kinds of companies that have sought funding over the past few months. Below are some data-driven insights into those companies—the gender composition of their leadership teams, the countries where they are based, and the industries in which they operate.
Over one third of the teams that applied to the DFN in Q3 had a female co-founder
63.39% of the submissions we received were from all-male founding teams, whereas just 10.43% were from all-female teams. The remaining 25.86% of founding teams were co-ed. We would like to bring more all-female founding teams into the DFN. One of the reasons for us launching the DFN was to create a more level fundraising field for underrepresented founders (see below).
All-female teams were accepted into the DFN more frequently than all-male teams
Teams with all-female leadership had a higher acceptance rate into the DFN (29.16%) than teams with all-male leadership (17.06%). This trend is consistent with other data that has emerged outside the realm of the DFN. Research has shown that female-led companies tend to outperform male-led companies, yet they still have a more difficult path toward funding and are underrepresented in c-suite positions. The DFN evaluates pitch decks via a data-driven approach, so it’s great to see that these types of gender biases are being avoided in terms of acceptance of founders into our network.
Impressive decks are coming from across the pond
30.37% of the strongest decks that came through our pitch deck analyzer (decks that met our quality bar) came from outside the US. The highest number of these submissions came from the UK, accounting for 30.77% of decks. Following closely behind was Europe (26.15%) and Asia (15.38%). We are working to add more VCs from Europe and Asia into our DFN, so we can better match decks coming to us internationally.
Fintech and Healthcare came out on top
Besides seeing strong geographic diversity, the DFN also received high quality decks from a wide range of industries. Fintech and healthcare were the most common, accounting for 9.78% and 9.4% of decks, respectively. Wellness (7.6%), food and beverage (7.2%), media (7.2%), and retail/beauty/fashion (6.5%) were also frequent. A common thread here was around targeting a market that is sheltering at home — remote healthcare, remote wellness, and D2C goods.
Stay tuned for more data from the DFN — we’ll be sharing more information soon about Q4 as well as other takeaways from the past year.
