Sentences with phrase «female venture capitalists»

A group of female venture capitalists are launching a series of office hours for female founders.

And they want to see more female venture capitalists making investments in the industry.

Not that female venture capitalists invest only in companies with predominantly female customers.

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.

(Read on Network World) Two veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.

Two veteran female venture capitalists start their own tech - focused firm — that's not an everyday occurrence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The study was conducted among 90 female venture capitalists and founders who've raised funding for their startups.

As a third choice, they think more female venture capitalists would be helpful.

Not exact matches

Between being a minority at pretty every much industry event, having to convince (mostly male) venture capitalists to invest in your company, and having those investors constantly question your judgment, being a female founder can be an isolating experience.

Second is that women venture capitalists, she says, «are always wanting to support female entrepreneurs and will recommend angel investors.»

Last summer, after six female founders accused venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances, his firm, Binary Capital, spiraled downward fast.

Rethink Impact is the largest venture capital firm in the U.S. focused on woman founders, according to Forbes, which is incredibly impactful for female founders who aren't being recognized by most venture capitalists.

From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women less than men... none of this is good.

Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year by venture capitalist Hunter Walk, in which he described how interacting with Amazon's virtual assistant device Echo, which responds in a female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.

And, during a peer - reviewed study earlier this year in Sweden, researchers observed that venture capitalists described female and male entrepreneurs with drastically different words, from calling the male entrepreneurs «Young and Promising» while calling similar female entrepreneurs, «Young and Inexperienced.»

One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him.

The disclosures came after the tech news site The Information reported that female entrepreneurs had been preyed upon by a venture capitalist, Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital.

Pretending to be Men For decades, female entrepreneurs have been told that, yes, they absolutely can get funded by high - profile angels and venture capitalists.

Since then, a series of disclosures from female entrepreneurs have unveiled systemic harassment by venture capitalists.

Forbes reported the $ 445 billion beauty industry is full of tech - savvy female entrepreneurs, many of which struggle to raise money from traditional venture capitalists.