It's no surprise that there are powerhouse business leaders around the Bay Area, and three local CEOs have been named by Fortune as the "most powerful women in startups" around the world.
Fortune selected founders and executives at startups with some of the largest valuations based on PitchBook data.
"The women on this list are notable, either as founders who hold influential jobs at their highly valued startups or as chief executives of highly valued firms," Fortune wrote.
And, as Fortune also notes, female founders still raise a dismal amount of venture funding, seemingly hovering around 2% of all the capital deployed in any given year, making these successful companies all the more impressive.
See the full list below (Bay Area companies are in bold):
- Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO, Canva (Sydney, Australia)
- Divya Gokulnath, co-founder and director, Byju’s (Bangalore, India)
- Miranda Qu, co-founder and president, Xiaohongshu (Shanghai, China)
- Fidji Simo, CEO, Instacart (San Francisco)
- Toyin Ajayi, co-founder and CEO, Cityblock Health (Brooklyn)
- Ruchi Kalra, co-founder and CFO, OfBusiness; cofounder and CEO, Oxyzo, (Gurgaon, India)
- Rachel Romer, co-founder and CEO, Guild Education (Denver)
- Adi Tatarko, co-founder and CEO, Houzz (Palo Alto)
- Eynat Guez, co-founder and CEO, Papaya Global (New York)
- Julia Cheek, founder and CEO, Everly Health (Austin)
- Anne Boden, founder and CEO, Starling Bank (London, England)
- Kim Kardashian, founder, Skims (Los Angeles)
- Daphne Koller, founder and CEO, Insitro (South San Francisco)
- April Koh, co-founder and CEO, Spring Health (New York)
- Jinglan Wang, co-founder and CEO, Optimism (New York)
