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Women in VC

Emailed on March 6th 2020 in The Friday Forward

A record number of female-founded startups raised venture capital in 2019, representing more than a 500% increase from 2010, based on new data from PitchBook and All Raise. Median valuations also hit all-time highs.

But: Not all the new numbers were positive, particularly when it came to actual money raised. Only 16% of all venture investment dollars invested in 2019 went to startups with at least one female founder, down from 18% in 2018. So far in 2020, the figure is just 13%.

As Axios puts it, "Venture capital should briefly celebrate its progress, and then get back to work doing much, much better."


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