Why Women Founders Get 2.3% of VC Funding and the Tactical Playbook to Change It with Anna Mazarsky

Women founders get 2.3% of VC funding. Not because they lack vision, grit, or ideas, but because the playbook they've been handed was built for men.

In this episode, I sit down with Anna Mazarsky, founder of PinkX PowerCore, the first tactical platform built to close the funding gap from the inside out. Anna spent nearly two decades inside the fundraising world. When she pulled the data, she didn't find a confidence problem. She found a systems problem, a bias problem, and a pattern-matching problem no amount of mindset coaching was ever going to fix.

So she stopped coaching and started building.

We get into why female-led VC funds aren't moving the needle, why women consistently ask for less than they've earned the right to raise, and why 80% of something will always beat 100% of nothing.

The system wasn't built for us. Anna is building the one that is.

Chapters:
🌍 01:34 Meet Anna Mazarsky: two decades, 500+ startups, and the 2.3% gap that broke her

🇰🇿 04:37 From Kazakhstan to Greece: from bartender to fundraising powerhouse

📊 08:46 The article that changed everything and the data that made her stop coaching

🚫 11:04 "Not another women's program": the pushback that pushed her further

💸 24:22 Why women ask for one million when men ask for ten

👀 33:28 The companies that get funded versus the ones that should

🛠️ 52:54 Inside PinkX PowerCore: the platform built to make women investor-inevitable

🌱 01:00:30 Plant the startup seed in all the girls: why Anna is reaching the next generation

Links:
Website: pinkxpwr.com
LinkedIn: Anna Mazarsky

If you're a founder who's ever asked for less than you were worth, Anna is the person to follow next.

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