Top 5 Women-Led Startups to Watch in 2025

Canva (Melanie Perkins): Empowering creators worldwide with intuitive design tools, Canva continues innovating in visual communication and expanding into enterprise solutions

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Guild Education (Rachel Carlson): Transforming workforce education by partnering with employers to offer debt-free degrees, Guild is reshaping how adults access lifelong learning

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The Lip Bar (Melissa Butler): Disrupting beauty standards, The Lip Bar offers inclusive, vegan, affordable cosmetics while promoting diversity and self-expression in the beauty industry

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Chief (Carolyn Childers & Lindsay Kaplan): Chief is a private network for executive women, offering mentorship, leadership support, and connection in a powerful, community-driven space

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Live Tinted (Deepica Mutyala): Live Tinted champions multicultural beauty, developing products for underrepresented skin tones while driving conversations around identity, inclusion, and self-love

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