Hi there, and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast in regards to the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
That is our Wednesday present, the place we area of interest all the way down to a single particular person, take into consideration their work and unpack the remaining. This week, Natasha interviewed Kaisa Snellman, an financial sociologist and an affiliate Professor of Organizational Habits and Tutorial Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative. We all know, we all know, it’s a flex.
We’re going to speak about: Kaisa’s current Harvard Enterprise Assessment piece with Isabelle Solal: For Feminine Founders, Fundraising Solely from Feminine VCs Comes at a Value. The duo’s analysis asserts that women-led startups whose first spherical was raised solely from feminine VCs had been 2x much less more likely to increase a second spherical no matter preliminary funding spherical dimension, business, geographic location, or status of the investor.
Hearken to the entire dialog earlier than you soar to conclusions, however let’s simply say that this dialog actually received into the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
The info is each revolutionary, and provocative.
Right here’s what we received into:
- How folks see feminine founders who simply increase from feminine traders, and the pitching bias that continues to exist on the earth
- Why the reply to imbalances is extra difficult than getting feminine check-writers to the desk
- And eventually, we speak about how variety quotas and funds might have unintended penalties which can be value pondering a bit extra about.
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