McKinsey

• Diversity wins: How inclusion matters (2020): https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-wins-how-inclusion-matters

Crunchbase

• Q1 2019 Diversity Report: Female Founders Own 17 Percent of Venture Dollars (2019): https://news.crunchbase.com/news/q1-2019-diversity-report-female-founders-own-17-percent-of-venture-dollars/

Backstage Capital

• Backstage Capital (Venture Capital firm that invest in minority-founded businesses only): https://backstagecapital.com/
• Backstage Capital: Five Years of Impact Report (2020): https://backstagecapital.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Backstage-Capital-5-Year-Impact-Report-Final.pdf

Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO)

• Our Story: https://www.womenseday.org/about-us/our-story/

CB Insights

• A Data-Driven Look at Diversity in Venture Capital and Startups (2015): https://www.cbinsights.com/research/team-blog/venture-capital-diversity-data/
• Venture Capital Demographics - 87% of VC-Backed Founders are White; All-Asian Teams Raise Largest Funding Rounds (2010): https://www.cbinsights.com/research/venture-capital-demographics-87-percent-vc-backed-founders-white-asian-teams-raise-largest-funding/

Harvard Business Review

• Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case (2020): https://hbr.org/2020/11/getting-serious-about-diversity-enough-already-with-the-business-case
  • Critiques the idea that diversity in itself is a good business case. Organizations must be willing to implement a learning culture, change power structures and build diversity, not just in workforce, but in the way they do everything.
• Institutional Investors Must Help Close the Race and Gender Gaps in Venture Capital (2020): https://hbr.org/2020/08/institutional-investors-must-help-close-the-race-and-gender-gaps-in-venture-capital