What are female founder communities?

Communities specifically for women building companies, with a focus on peer support, fundraising challenges, and navigating the specific dynamics women face in entrepreneurship. Slack and LinkedIn are the most common platforms, with some strong independent networks and accelerator-connected communities for early-stage founders.

Where do most female founder communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (20% of 20 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

55% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical female founder community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 7K members and the median is 750. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (70%). Others that show up often include online/offline events, live chat, and newsletter.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Female Founder topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Female Founder Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 20 female founder communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: female founder communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 20
Platforms: 8
Avg members: 7K
Median members: 750

Where Female Founder Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
4(20%)
Slack
4(20%)
Skool
4(20%)
LinkedIn
2(10%)
Facebook
2(10%)
Discord
2(10%)
Circle
1(5%)
Reddit
1(5%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
7(35%)
Chat communities
6(30%)
Private membership
5(25%)
Other platforms
2(10%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (35%), but chat communities is also well represented (30%).

Independent Platforms leads, but Slack and Skool also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
3(15%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
5(25%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
1(5%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
4(20%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
0(0%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
0(0%)

7 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (7K vs 750), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Female Founder Differs From Other Categories

Female Founder is less free-to-join, smaller, more platform-diverse, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Female Founder	Hive Index average
Free to join	55%	84%
Median members	750	25K
Average members	7K	668K
Paid or apply-to-join	45%	16%
Live chat	45%	41%
Discord share	10%	18%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
70%
Online/Offline Events
60%
Live Chat
45%
Newsletter
45%
Requires Application
30%
Courses
25%
Job Board
20%
Paid Community
20%

Forum appears on 70% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 120

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Independent Platforms	4	20%	7	6%
Slack	4	20%	39	33%
Skool	4	20%	6	5%
LinkedIn	2	10%	6	5%
Facebook	2	10%	14	12%
Discord	2	10%	44	37%
Circle	1	5%	3	3%
Reddit	1	5%	1	1%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Discord gets 37% of clicks but only 10% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
83(69%)
Forum / feed-based
22(18%)
Private membership
9(8%)
Other platforms
6(5%)

Most-clicked features

Online/Offline Events
98(82%)
Newsletter
90(75%)
Live Chat
86(72%)
Forum
81(68%)
Requires Application
70(58%)
Job Board
66(55%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Huge
54(45%)
Medium
32(27%)
Small
17(14%)

Top-clicked listings

The Overachievehers
37(31%)
Femstreet
22(18%)
Female Founders Community
10(8%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and forum / feed-based communities.

Trends

Founded year

2008

2018

2020

2023

13 communities have no founding year on file.

Most listed groups were founded around 2020.

Community Quality & Ratings

Only 1 community has ratings so far, so read this as a small sample.

5.0 average rating across 1 community.

Rated examples

The Overachievehers
Discord · 5.0 stars · 40K members

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Female Founder. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.

FAQ

: Communities specifically for women building companies, with a focus on peer support, fundraising challenges, and navigating the specific dynamics women face in entrepreneurship. Slack and LinkedIn are the most common platforms, with some strong independent networks and accelerator-connected communities for early-stage founders.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (20% of 20 listings).
: 55% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 7K members and the median is 750. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (70%). Others that show up often include online/offline events, live chat, and newsletter.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Female Founder topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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