Raised by US female-founded companies in 2024—while deal count fell 13.1%, concentrating capital among fewer companies.
PitchBook, 2025 ↗
Founded by women. Built for what’s next.
Powering the women
building what’s next.
Sugarcane Ventures is a company founded by women, for women—advancing founders creating transformative technology, intellectual property and solutions to our biggest challenges.
AI✦Emerging Technology✦Climate & Sustainability✦Health & Human Potential
A broader vision
From overlooked
to undeniable.
Talent is everywhere. Access is not.
We center women building at the frontiers of AI and emerging technology—with intentional reach into Caribbean, Asian and Latino communities across the United States.
We are building an ecosystem where identity is an advantage, ideas become assets and founders gain the relationships and resources to shape markets at home and around the world.
The future is arriving unevenly
Progress is real.
So is the gap.
Women are not short on ideas or ambition. They remain undercapitalized, underrepresented in the fields shaping the global economy and disproportionately exposed to technological disruption.
Of STEM jobs in G20 countries are held by women. Only 1 in 10 STEM leaders is a woman.
UNESCO ↗Of women’s employment in high-income countries is in roles with the highest GenAI exposure, versus 3.5% for men.
ILO, 2025 ↗Workers will need reskilling or upskilling by 2030. Eleven may not receive it—putting their prospects at risk.
WEF, 2025 ↗
Built from lived intelligence
Different perspectives.
Stronger futures.
The women shaping tomorrow’s technologies understand markets, communities and human needs that have been overlooked for too long.
Industries of possibility
Technology should expand
human potential.
Our position
AI should not replace human ambition, creativity or judgment. Used responsibly, it should enlarge them—helping companies research faster, imagine beyond conventional limits, scale with greater intelligence and create new roles around the technologies shaping the next era.
Health & life sciences
Accelerate discovery, personalize care and design better health outcomes around the people medicine has too often overlooked.
Financial services & commerce
Expand access, strengthen decision-making and create new products for consumers and entrepreneurs across global markets.
Climate, energy & food systems
Model risk, optimize resources and turn community knowledge into resilient solutions for a changing planet.
Education & workforce
Personalize learning, close capability gaps and prepare more women to lead—not merely adapt to—the next economy.
Media & the creative economy
Give creators new production power, protect original IP and carry culturally fluent stories to audiences at global scale.
Manufacturing & supply chains
Increase precision, resilience and speed while creating demand for new technical, operational and human-centered roles.
For women, the opportunity is larger than participation.
It is the agency to build intellectual property, own companies, direct capital, lead research and shape the markets emerging around the world.
Industry themes informed by the World Economic Forum and International Labour Organization.
What we bring
More than capital.
Momentum.
SCV meets ambitious women where they are and helps them get where they’re going.
Built around the founder. Designed for the future.Intellectual capital
Sharp strategy, operating insight and the pattern recognition to move from promising idea to durable company.
Connected capital
Access to aligned investors, advisors, operators, customers and collaborators—not a stack of cold introductions.
Strategic resources
Hands-on consulting, market intelligence and practical support built around the realities of each founder’s journey.
Financial pathways
Capital readiness, thoughtful financing strategy and connections to funding that fits the company—not the other way around.
Future readiness
Upskilling and reskilling that help women build fluency in AI, emerging technology and the capabilities shaping tomorrow’s economy.
The women behind Sugarcane
Built by women who
have built before.
We bring decades of legal, investment, operating and global technology experience to the women creating what comes next.
Founder · General Partner
Islindy Merius, JD/MBA
Venture capitalist, attorney, speaker and business strategist with an extensive track record of incubating and investing in early-stage companies from underserved communities. Advisor to women founders in emerging markets.
Founder · General Partner
Lory D. George
Entrepreneur, advisor and digital and startup media technology veteran with three decades of experience leading global startup teams as a chief revenue officer across revenue development and strategy. Advisor to women in technology.
Founded by women.For women.For the future.
Work with Sugarcane
Find your place in
what comes next.
Have a consequential idea? Interested in joining our team or board? Want to hear about upcoming workshops and events? Start here.
Our north star
“The future will not simply include women.Discover how we work →
Women will invent it.”