Sentences with phrase «about women investors»

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I had an investor say, «I think you're amazing, but I have to pick one or two board seats a year and where I feel really passionate about the business, and I don't think I can be passionate about women's dresses and retail.»»

Currently, only 3 % of America's venture capital - backed startups are led by women, and only about 4 % percent of US - based venture capital investors are women.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

«There's a greater urgency among women investors to use their growing financial clout in support of other women and to invest in the future they want — rejecting outdated views about sacrificing the potential for investment returns or forgoing their own goals in order to do so,» Krawcheck said in a statement.

Damore's memo followed a wave of recent stories in which women in tech have gone public about the sexual harassment they've experienced, be it from co-workers, bosses, or investors.

When it comes to women, leveling the playing field is something we're insanely passionate about — supporting both women founders AND women investors.

Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.

Women represented about 13 percent of angel investors, and female entrepreneurs accounted for 21 percent of those seeking angel capital.

They discovered the investors (and 40 percent of them were women) tended to ask men questions about the potential for gains at their startups, while they asked women about the potential for losses.

«Why do we want investors who know lots about things that don't work for women?»

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

Also quite interesting is the report's findings about women founders, who build more relationships with regional founders and are more locally connected than their male counterparts — except with investors.

When you gather women investors, advisors and financial experts together, it's a great chance to talk about women owning their financial lives.

«But it also says we need to keep up our efforts and get practical about the solutions we've put in place to help women get comfortable and investors get connected.»

Since 2008, over 100 women investors have been involved in supporting angel investing and 519 women - led ventures have inquired about angel funding, with 80 companies moving forward for investor presentations.

177 women - led ventures have inquired about angel funding, with 40 companies moving forward for investor presentations.

Dinesh Moorjani, co-founder of Tinder and CEO of Hatch Labs Inc. where Tinder was created, says that another reason lesbian dating apps may have failed to prosper could be that investors don't see that 3.4 percent of America as a large enough market to tackle (never mind that gay and bi men make up about the same proportion of the population as gay and bi women, and Grindr has 10 times the users of Her).

A 2013 Merrill Lynch report found that of 11,500 Merrill clients and prospective clients surveyed, about 55 percent of women agreed or strongly agreed that, «I know less than the average investor about financial markets and investing in general.»

Money Energy (@moneyenergy): I don't know much about the woman behind this account other than her name is Clare, she's an investor and runs the Money Energy blog.

For instance, according to a November 2017 survey done by Los Angeles - based Capital Group Companies, one of the largest investment management firms in the world, even though women believe they have more economic power as investors than they do in the workplace, eight out of 10 women have personally experienced negative stereotypes about their investing know - how and financial contributions to the household.

We've heard about research suggesting that women are less confident investors.

These investors were particularly concerned about how HQ's founder Colin Kroll managed people during his time at Twitter, as well as a reputation he's garnered for exhibiting inappropriate behavior toward women, according to the sources.

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