Source - https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/how-women-in-vc-see-the-future-we-arent-waiting-for-that-world-to-include-us

TL;DR - Women have been marginalized in the VC industry for a very long time, but recently, there has been a rise in female CEOs and they hold a big part of the industry’s future.

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Topic Tags - Future of VC, Women in VC

Questions answered:

• What is the future of female CEO’s in the VC realm?

Summary:

• Companies founded solely by women garnered 2.3% of all VC dollars invested in the US last year.
• Nearly half of investments secured by female CEOs are angel or seed investments
• In the past decade, there has been an upward trend in number of female CEOs being financed
• Throughout all the change in VC industry, women have been able to see the future best
• In 2018, we saw for the first time in history that for 2 consecutive years that female-founded companies went public

Follow-up Links:

• Disparity between male and female CEO pitching process https://hbr.org/2017/06/male-and-female-entrepreneurs-get-asked-different-questions-by-vcs-and-it-affects-how-much-funding-they-get