Uma Information

Uma is building a founder–investor matching platform designed to help close the gender funding gap. Women-led companies continue to receive a disproportionately small share of venture capital, even as many investors say they want access to more diverse, high-performing deal flow. The problem is not only capital availability. It is discovery. Too many strong founders remain outside traditional investor networks, while investors are overwhelmed by inbound, referrals, and fragmented deal flow that often does not match their thesis. Uma helps both sides move beyond cold outreach, static investor lists, and noisy inbound by using structured data, founder signals, investor theses, explainable match context, and controlled introduction workflows. For founders, Uma is designed to help women-led and overlooked companies become discoverable to investors who are actually aligned with their stage, sector, traction, and goals. For investors, Uma is designed to surface better-fit founder opportunities beyond existing networks, helping them discover high-potential companies that match their thesis, check size, fund constraints, and investment priorities. Uma’s mission is to close the gender funding gap by making founder–investor discovery faster, fairer, and more data-informed without replacing the human judgment at the center of investment decisions. Uma is currently being built for founders, investors, and ecosystem partners who believe capital should move through better signal, not more noise. We are launching this year, Reach out to get a beta invite.