CAPILUNA: Empowering Female Founders Through Intelligent Investor Matching and Discovery
Translated title
CAPILUNA: Understøtter kvindelige iværksættere gennem smart investor-matching og eksponering
Term
4. Term
Publication year
2025
Submitted on
2025-10-19
Pages
14
Abstract
Female founders face systemic barriers that have created an investment gap, despite evidence that their companies are better investments and deliver higher returns than their male counterparts. A challenge contributing to this gap is identifying investors genuinely open to funding female-founded businesses. In response to this challenge, I developed Capiluna, a digital platform designed to empower female founders through improved investor identification and matching. Through thorough research and interviews with female founders, I identified investor discovery as one of the primary barriers in the funding landscape and applied the Design Thinking Process to develop a solution. Capiluna combines a database of over 2,500 investors with verified track records of funding female founders with a matching algorithm that evaluates founder-investor compatibility based on industry, location, funding stage, and check size. The platform empowers founders by providing knowledge about relevant investors, creating persistent empowerment that extends beyond system use. This research contributes to HCI empowerment in a business context by exploring how technology might address systemic funding barriers for underrepresented founders.
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