Duggal, a businesswoman, experienced this unbalanced dynamic when he was looking for funds for his own electronic commerce businesses.
“The real conclusion was around the financing and the fact that almost everyone we met as part of our fund collection trip were masculine,” he said. “While examining the numbers, it was clear that there was a bigger problem in question.”
For 11 years, the initiative has raised funds for women’s founded companies that are now worth more than $ 3 billion in total. Even so, new companies led by women only receive around 2% of all risk capital money, according to the 2025 founding fund report.
Duggal founded the camp five years ago with the impulse of juice investment by connecting the founders through a sense of community and nostalgic summer, and as an antidote for the “Tech Bro” culture.
“This is where we make those conversations”, Kristie d’Ambrosio-Correll, founder of Dacora Motors, which produces ultra luxury electric vehicles. “And women have a lot of power and a lot of wealth, and more and more every day. This is our golf course.”
