But she says it's a good idea to make a point to at least network
with female venture backers, for two reasons.
Two
veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.
A group
of female venture capitalists are launching a series of office hours for female founders.
This is a less - well - explored area but one that CrunchBase is well - suited to address because of its efforts last year to sharpen its data on women co-founders and this year to do the same with data
on female venture capitalists.
Two of Silicon Valley's most high -
profile female venture capitalists are set to announce Wednesday that they've left their respective firms to join forces.
There's also AllRaise, a newly formed organization composed of the
top female venture capitalists.
(Read on Network World) Two
veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.
«Honestly, there will be more female entrepreneurs if there are
more female venture capitalists,» said Brit Morin, founder and chief executive of an e-commerce and crafts site called Brit & Co, whose investors include Cowboy Ventures.
Either way, Holmes's comment, and the conversations I've had
with female venture capitalists and entrepreneurs since then, reminded me that there are a slew of terribly accomplished female entrepreneurs out there, but we don't hear much about them.
One year after a comprehensive Crunchbase report found that 7 percent of partners at the top 100 venture firms globally are women,
female venture capitalists say they still have a long way to go to catch up to their male counterparts in the industry.
It's also interesting to note that Aspect Ventures, a fund founded by two
female venture capitalists, invested in two of the deals listed above.
Female venture capitalists are still rare in Silicon Valley, and female - led venture firms are rarer still.
In total, their sample included data on 3,225 male venture capitalists and 212
female venture capitalists, with females representing just 6.1 percent of the sample.
Not
that female venture capitalists invest only in companies with predominantly female customers.