TAMPA, Fla., May 3. Women now account for nearly 40 percent of all new limited liability company filings in Florida, up from approximately 30 percent in 2022, according to a research analysis released Sunday by the lead-generation platform DayOneLead.
The analysis, drawn from a random sample of approximately 45,000 Florida LLC filings classified between 2022 and early 2026, indicates that women-founded businesses are forming at the fastest pace of any major founder cohort tracked by the platform. The share of new Florida LLCs filed under owner names classified by the model as female has climbed roughly ten percentage points over the four-year window.
Florida is on track to register approximately 88,000 women-founded LLC filings in 2026, up from approximately 60,000 in 2022.
Together, the findings imply a structural shift in the composition of new American small-business formation. If the trend holds, women will account for a majority of new Florida LLC filings before the end of the decade.
Yearly trend
The yearly progression, drawn from filings recorded between January 2022 and April 2026, shows a steady increase in the share of new Florida LLCs filed under owner names classified by the model as female. The 2026 value reflects filings recorded through April and is presented as the projected full-year rate based on year-to-date data.
- 2022: 30.1 percent
- 2023: 32.6 percent
- 2024: 34.9 percent
- 2025: 37.4 percent
- 2026: 39.8 percent (projected)
The four-year shift of approximately ten percentage points represents one of the largest cohort movements captured in the platform's dataset over the period.
Annual extrapolation
Florida averages approximately 200,000 new LLC filings per year, with annual volume rising modestly across the four-year window. Applying the female-share percentage from each year to the corresponding annual baseline produces the following estimates of women-founded LLCs filed each year in Florida:
- 2022: Approximately 60,000 women-founded filings
- 2023: Approximately 65,000 women-founded filings
- 2024: Approximately 71,000 women-founded filings
- 2025: Approximately 78,000 women-founded filings
- 2026: Approximately 88,000 women-founded filings (projected)
The four-year increase implies an additional 28,000 women-founded LLCs filed in Florida in 2026 compared with 2022, equivalent to approximately 77 net new women-founded filings each calendar day.
Industry concentration
Women-founded filings are not evenly distributed across business categories. The DayOneLead classifier's category labels show women constituting a clear majority of new founders in five service categories tracked by the platform, while remaining a structural minority in the trades.
Within the sample, women accounted for the majority of new founders in beauty (82 percent), healthcare services (69 percent), cleaning services (65 percent), broader healthcare (56 percent), and nonprofit organizations (54 percent). Women accounted for a near-majority in retail (47 percent) and a plurality in professional services (44 percent), restaurants (39 percent), consulting (39 percent), and real estate (37 percent).
In the trades, women remained a smaller share of new founders: 22 percent in transportation, 19 percent in contracting work, and 16 percent in general construction.
The category mix suggests that the four-year increase in women-founded filings has been driven primarily by service-sector formation rather than by entry into the historically male-dominated trades.
Methodology
DayOneLead ingests Florida LLC filings from the state's Sunbiz registry on a daily basis and classifies the registered owner-name field on each filing using a large language model, which assigns one of three gender labels: male, female, or unclear. Yearly female-share percentages are then applied to Florida's annual baseline of approximately 200,000 LLC filings to produce the per-year estimates above. The 2026 figure reflects filings recorded through April and is projected to a full-year rate.
Data availability
A random sample of 1,000 high-confidence classifications, including the gender label, is available for download as a comma-separated values file:
Download the data sample (CSV)
The file includes the registered owner name, business name, city, business category, filing date, and the model's cultural-origin and gender labels. All fields are public-record elements of the Sunbiz filing and are included so readers can audit the labels against the inputs the classifier actually saw.
About DayOneLead
DayOneLead is a business-lead-generation platform that ingests state business-registration filings on a daily basis, enriches each filing with verified owner contact information, and delivers the resulting datasets to subscribers. Florida is the most comprehensively covered state in the platform's dataset.
For custom data cuts, journalists and researchers may contact research@dayonelead.com.
Footnote on extrapolation. The random sample of approximately 45,000 names was drawn from the population of in-scope Florida LLC filings (any filing with a non-empty owner-name field) over the four-year window. Annual filing volume of approximately 200,000 to 220,000 is taken from the dataset's filing-date distribution. Applying the sample's per-year female-share percentages to each year's filing baseline produces the per-year estimates shown above. The 2026 projection assumes continuation of the year-to-date rate for the balance of the calendar year.