In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women.
That’s really low. Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce. They are majority owners of 36% of small businesses.
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What makes a venture capital investment successful? Some of the most interesting data on this question comes from an analysis published last year by the venture capital firm First Round Capital. The firm’s unique data set comprises information on over 300 companies and nearly 600 founders, including founder characteristics such as age, gender, education, firm location, and prior work and startup experience. The study found several correlates with success — some reassuring, some surprising.
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It’s hard to believe, but the number of women at venture capital firms—the primary financial engines of Silicon Valley—is going from terrible to worse. Here’s what should not be a surprise: A handful of resourceful female investors and entrepreneurs are finding creative ways around the roadblocks.
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“You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story,” hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones declared in 2013, in his now infamous exposition on how breastfeeding mothers could not simultaneously hold an interest in following the market or analysing a stock.
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"I love working with the creative visionaries in tech… those folks who are internally driven to develop solutions. It's inspiring for me to engage with people who are passionate about the impact their technology is going to have on the world, and see someone pull a groundbreaking technology from their imagination, design and prototype it, and create a company.”
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A study conducted by a team of researchers from Harvard, Wharton and MIT has revealed that venture capitalists prefer to back entrepreneurial opportunities when pitched by a man and that they are more likely to offer funding if the man is good looking.
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The trade association for the venture capital industry, the NVCA, gathered yesterday in San Francisco to talk about the state of the industry and some of the key policy issues we are facing. The short list is an obvious one for anyone who has been reading the news lately: Net Neutrality, Immigration Reform and Patent Reform are all hot topics in our industry. More inward-looking topics like the rise of corporate VC and new emerging managers also were batted about.
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