Women’s issue It’s a flaw of the West that start-up founders don’t get fair venture funding: it’s here, everywhere in the US, and there, across Europe.
Some of these metrics indicate that investors simply pull back when the data shows that the bias has historical precedent. In the year Even in 2008, all-female US founding teams raised 1.2% of total venture capital, according to Pitchbook data. In the year In 2012, they increased by 1.8%, then in 2016 by 1.7%. If anything, 2021 was the exception, with 2.3% of venture dollars allocated to all-female US teams. Today, that number is still tracking at 1.9%, which is typically, about the same as it has always been.
The solution is so simple – cut more checks for women – it highlights the discriminatory ideological stronghold our society is imposing on us.
In Europe, the story is much the same, although in 2010 2020 was an exceptional year with women raising 2.4% of investment capital across the continent. Last year shows a more accurate picture: All women’s groups raised only 1.1% of all venture funds in Europe, the same as in 2017, 2018 and 2019, which groups raised 1.5%, 1.8% and, as previously reported by TechCrush, 1.5% of all venture capital. The inequality gap has failed to move in a significant direction.
It’s no coincidence that our societal frameworks and ideologies, hand-crafted by sexism and immorality, have made little progress toward equitable change. There are two parallel narratives here: in one, the data reflects how investors, responsible men, feel about economic gender equality. At the same time, numbers are a product of our western society; still seen as marginalizing and marginalizing women; Treating them as second-class citizens makes their dreams worthless.
