Diversity

We asked this year’s Women of Influence which trends are catching their eye – and how those trends might develop.

’We’ve discovered through our research if you have decision-makers that are diverse, then the capital will go to more diverse founders,’ says Christine Hockley of British Business Bank.

Dan Conner of Ascend Venture Capital shares practical steps VC firms can take to address minority start-up funding imbalances.

The founder of SineWave Ventures believes adversity may be a better term than diversity to describe the character traits that can lead to better investment outcomes.

New research finds that more comprehensive and data-driven decision-making materially reduces the gender fundraising gap.

There is a 'pernicious idea' in VC that taking into consideration the identity and background of portfolio company founders means deprioritizing returns, says diversity-focused Kapor Capital.

A new report on women in VC shows that female-founded companies are weathering current market conditions at least slightly better than their male-founded counterparts..

Making seed investments into founders from underrepresented groups would have a more material impact for diverse founders than quotas, writes Sarah Barber, CEO of Jenson Funding Partners.

Oliver Libby of H/L Ventures discusses why underrepresented VCs cannot be the only pathway to fund underrepresented founders.

Gili Elkin from the Israel - Colorado Innovation Fund says after taking more than 700 meetings with start-ups, she found that fewer than 10 had female CEOs. Here’s what she's doing about it.