Diversity

Women who have raised venture funds share the challenges they’ve had to overcome and offer tips for others looking to break into the industry.

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

A roundtable discussion with Patricia Muoio, partner at SineWave Ventures, Vesna Prchkovska, co-founder and CEO of QMENTA and Dipanwita Das, co-founder and CEO of Sorcero.

Raven Indigenous Impact Fund II will back Native American enterprises that demonstrate commercial viability, potential for scale and measurable community benefit streams.

Connecticut Innovations, Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, announced that it has launched Future Fund, a $50 million vehicle that will back Connecticut-based tech start-ups with diverse teams, "with an emphasis on underrepresented founders."

Of the $424m MassPRIM committed to diverse managers last year, $158m went to four managers of venture capital and/or growth funds.

LPs including AP6, Hamilton Lane and Harvard Management Company told the Principles for Responsible Investment that they are looking more carefully at how general partners manage ESG risks internally and within their portfolio companies.

One of the two asset managers to which California Public Employees’ Retirement System allocated a combined $1 billion this week to expand diversity in alternative investment management said venture capital will be a key component of the inaugural fund it is launching with the pension fund’s capital.

Cake Ventures, a new pre-seed and seed venture firm, has closed its debut fund at $17m to invest in companies creating technologies that address major demographic changes.

Mendoza Ventures, a female- and Latinx-founded venture capital firm, announced that it has raised $100 million in the first close of its third fund.