In 2017, only 16 percent of startups had a female co-founder or founder. Although there are no hard statistics out there (that we know of), it’s probably safe to say that the number of startups with a Latina co-founder or founder is likely in the single digits percentage.
In this report, we look at venture and seed investment trends in female-founded startups over the last five quarters. For this time period, we look at more than 9,119 venture deals and 6,802 seed deals for companies with founders associated.
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon’s love of change matched with her creativity and drive has defined her experience as a successful startup founder and the Founding Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital, but the common thread in her life has always been the empowerment of other people.
At Crunchbase News we cover the intersection of money and tech, and oftentimes that intersection is filled with societal nuances and frustrations. Alaina Percival, co-founder and CEO of the non-profit Women Who Code, works to address those frustrations by assisting women in STEM and by convincing companies to invest in us.
Which business schools produced the most startup investors in recent history? Are different types of startup investors more or less likely to have gone to business school? And, within each investor type, are there differences between men and women’s educational patterns? Let’s take a look.
Misogyny is a pervasive issue in the startup world, where many different aspects of the gender issue—lack of women in STEM, the gender pay gap, and sexual assault—collide.
From immigration and DACA policies, to the wage gap, to diversity in tech, artificial intelligence and election interference, 2017 could be overwhelming. Where did we take out that emotion? Online. And as our engagement in politics and society has moved from face-to-face interactions to threads under posts, the stakes for Silicon Valley tech companies have risen.
While sexism was not born in Silicon Valley, sexual harassment is proving to be toxic for business as experienced by Uber, SoFi, Binary Capital, and others. As part of our larger Q4 and 2017 coverage, let’s see how the venture industry invested in women last year.
Despite recent attempts at making it harder for immigrants to come to the United States, it’s indisputable that immigrant tech entrepreneurs are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon in this country.