Post by Bella Ghassemi-Smith

We've launched Aurora Ventures. 💙 & we're investing exclusively in women founders. 🚀 For those new here, Aurora started as the Aurora Tech Award: built to find and platform the women founders that venture capital was missing. What started with 116 applications from 9 countries 5 years ago, grew to 3,400 from 127 countries in 2025. 📈 Somewhere along the way, platforming these founders wasn't enough, we knew we had to start investing. 💸 Aurora Ventures will exclusively invest up to $250K in women founders at pre-seed and seed stage across MENA, Africa, and Latin America. -- If you're a woman founder building in emerging markets, submit your company through the link in the comments. 👇🏼 And if you know one, send this her way. ♥️