How The Allyship is addressing the diversity gap and promoting gender equality in the investment community
The social impact project is building awareness through its research and podcast to get at least 30 per cent of women to make up space in the venture capital industry by 2035.
There’s a problem in the investment community: In 2019, only 15.2 per cent of partners at venture capital firms in Canada were women, and even lower in the United States at just 13.2 per cent.1
With venture capital being the primary funding source for most technology companies, some speculate that this stream deeply affects the types of projects being cr…