👏 We are excited to announce the winners of the WomenTech Investor of the Year Award 2025.
Finalists were grouped into six focus areas. Here are the Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners in each:
1. Global Winners:
🥇 Gold: April Oury, Managing Director, Prota Ventures and Angel Investor, The Josephine Collective
🥈 Silver: Camila Torrente, Founder and General Partner, Andes Angels and Latin American Program Partner, ERA Global
🥉 Bronze: Coco Sellman, Founder and CEO, A Force for Good and Limited Partner, How Women Invest
2. Health & FemTech Investors
🥇 Gold: Jenny Kay Pollock, Limited Partner, Emmeline Ventures and Co-Founder and Co-CEO, WOMEN x AI
🥈 Silver: Nancy L. Belcher, Ph.D., MPA, Angel Investor, Seattle Angel Conference and Co-Founder and CEO, Winona
🥉 Bronze: Kimberly Bryant, Angel Investor, Backpack Healthcare and Founder, Black Girls CODE and Black Innovation Lab by Ascend Ventures
3. Angel Investors
🥇 Gold: Revital Padovitz, Angel Investor, Sand Hill Angels and Product and Leadership Coach, Women Defining AI
🥈 Silver: Ginger Dhaliwal, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Upflex and Angel Investor, TBD Angels
🥉 Bronze: Leniece K. Flowers, Angel Investor, BAG Collective and Senior Global Program Manager, LinkedIn
4. Limited Partners
🥇 Gold: Ariel Segal Eck, Managing Director, Segal Ventures and Limited Partner, Chloe Capital
🥈 Silver: Gina Mastantuono, President and Chief Financial Officer, ServiceNow and Limited Partner, Operator Collective
🥉 Bronze: Tracey Gordon, Limited Partner, Women’s Equity Lab and Founder and AI Strategist, Bubblebox Media
5. AI & Deep Tech Investors
🥇 Gold: Gabriela de Queiroz, Director of AI, Microsoft for Startups and Angel Investor, WOW Aceleradora de Startups
🥈 Silver: Iliana Quinonez, Director, Customer Engineering North America Startups, Google Cloud and Advisor and Angel Investor, Chambr
🥉 Bronze: Mariane Bekker, Angel Investor, SHACK15 Ventures and Managing Partner, Founders Bay and Founder, Women Founders Bay
6. Global & Frontier Markets Investors
🥇 Gold: Patricia Chin-Sweeney, Venture Partner, Beyond Capital Ventures and Member and Angel Investor, Nairobi Business Angel Network
🥈 Silver: Pavlina Yanakieva , CEO and Co-Founder, Future Unicorns Accelerator and Bulgaria Innovation Hub, and Investor, Portfolia
🥉 Bronze: Neha Gupta, Senior Director AI Engineering, Uniphore and Limited Partner and Angel Investor, inVest Ventures
✨ Congratulations to all our Gold, Silver, and Bronze awardees, and every finalist. You’re proving that great investing isn’t only about term sheets. It’s about shifting who gets funded, standing beside founders through risk and scale, and building a more inclusive future of tech.