Hello, and welcome again to Equity, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
This is our Wednesday present, the place we area of interest right down to a single individual, take into consideration their work and unpack the remainder. This week, Natasha interviewed Kaisa Snellman, an financial sociologist and an affiliate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Academic Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative. We know, we all know, it’s a flex.
We’re going to speak about: Kaisa’s latest Harvard Business Review piece with Isabelle Solal: For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost. The duo’s analysis asserts that women-led startups whose first spherical was raised completely from feminine VCs have been 2x much less prone to increase a second spherical no matter preliminary funding spherical dimension, trade, geographic location, or status of the investor.
Listen to the entire dialog earlier than you soar to conclusions, however let’s simply say that this dialog actually acquired into the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
The knowledge is each revolutionary, and provocative.
Here’s what we acquired into:
- How individuals see feminine founders who simply increase from feminine buyers, and the pitching bias that continues to exist on the earth
- Why the reply to imbalances is extra sophisticated than getting feminine check-writers to the desk
- And lastly, we speak about how variety quotas and funds might have unintended penalties which are value pondering a bit extra about.
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