LOS ANGELES—Only a very small percentage of venture capital is awarded to female CEOs, according to Jay Samit, the chairman of the board at crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul. Jilliene Helman, the founder and CEO of Realty Mogul, is one of the women to land venture capital, recently securing $9 million in series-A financing. The accomplishment helped to earn Helman a spot in the Women of Influence round-up on Real Estate Forum, GlobeSt.com's print sister publication.

“Jilliene is a trailblazer and her success, and the amazing growth of Realty Mogul, opens the doors to venture capital for all women entrepreneurs. She recently completed one of the largest Series-A funding for a female CEO ever in the tech world,” says Samit.

Jilliene has accomplished some really significant achievements in her two-year run since Realty Mogul first launched. The platform has funded more than $120 million in commercial properties, including the first hotel ever in crowdfunding, and recently formed an institutional partnership that will provide $73 million in residential rehab loans. “Jilliene has disrupted the entire $11 trillion commercial real estate market by creating the largest crowdfunding platform for investing online in real estate,” says Samit. “She has provided thousands of accredited investors with access to investment opportunities that they would have never had before and at the same time, become an outsourced capital markets arm for real estate sponsors.”