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Women Awarded Tiny Fraction of UK Venture Capital Funds

Written by ESG | 12-Feb-2019 5:49:20 PM

2019-02-03 

Financial Times: Less than one per cent of venture capital funds in the UK go to start-ups run entirely by women, government-commissioned research has found, revealing another yawning gender gap in the business world. The UK VC & Female Founders report for the Treasury discovered that for every £1 of VC investment, all-female founder teams get less than 1p. All-male founder teams get 89p and mixed-gender teams get 10p...

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