Do Silicon Valley VCs have a negative bias against women entrepreneurs, making it more difficult for them to raise venture capital than men?
If you look at the statistics, it would seem so. Women entrepreneurs raise just 4.2 percent of overall venture funding in the U.S., according to research from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Part of the reason women entrepreneurs raise such a small portion of overall capital is simple math. Overall, there far more male than female entrepreneurs – though that’s changing quickly – and in the tech startup space, there aren’t enough women with computer science degrees (only 12 percent of computer science degrees are awarded to women).
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