The Artemis Fund

WHO WE ARE

The Artemis Fund recently launched to provide seed money and Series A financing to women-led companies. Its first $100,000 award will be given at the Rice Business Plan Competition held April 4 through April 6. With its first fund, the group expects to invest in about 30 women-led companies. It will invest in companies across the U.S. but has a preference for those in Houston and Texas. The Artemis Fund was launched by Stephanie Campbell, managing director of the Houston Angel Network, Leslie Goldman, who practiced corporate law for more than 25 years and has invested in more than 40 early stage, high-growth companies, and Diana Murakhovskaya, who co-founded the Monarq Incubator focused on women-led startups

TARGET SIZE OF FUNDS

Sector

Transportation, Financial Management

Stage

Seed, Series A

Region

North America

Countries

Founder(s)

Leslie Goldman

Leslie practiced as a corporate lawyer for over 25 years. She has built teams and recruited executives as a Managing Director at Major, Lindsey, and Africa. Leslie has invested in over 40 early stage, high-growth companies, either directly or in syndicates and venture funds.

TBDF Ventures LLC (TBDFV), the organizer of Beyond The Billion (BTB), is a company serving the global consortium of investors pledged to invest beyond $1bn collectively into women-founded technology companies and funds and firms that invest in them. BTB builds on the success of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the initial campaign co-founded by our founders. BTB is not a venture fund, an investment bank, a broker-dealer, investment clearinghouse, or an investment adviser, but rather a forum in which investors may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to companies for possible investment, in particular, those led by women. Each investor and allocator pledged to BTB’s mission is responsible for his or her own investment decisions, and neither TBDFV nor BTB recommends companies or financial products for investment. Participating funds may be highlighted to various institutional and other investors and managers, with the aim of catalyzing capital towards women-founded companies; but are not guaranteed allocations from any specific fund. The Founders of TBDFV and BTB may hold interests directly or indirectly in featured funds and associated companies. Information is obtained from participant funds, believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed by TBDFV or BTB. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.