Gender Gap in Start-Ups

What’s the gender gap in startups?

Gender Gap Grader has genderized 650k profiles of AngelList startup professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business angels. Some of the key findings,

• Women account for 7.4% of AngelList Investors, on a total of 19k investors having invested in 1+ start-ups
• Women investors are 8.4% in San-Francisco, 5.9% in Berlin, 3.1% in Amsterdam, 7.4% in Vancouver, 4.3% in Montreal
• For investors willing to invest in Enterprise Software, women account for 7.8%. Other markets: Developper Tools 4.3%, Fashion 11.3%, Organic Food 14.4%, Women Focused 21.9%
• Developper is the most popular role specified in AngelList, claimed by 45k men and women. Women represent 9% of Developpers. Other roles : software architect (4.2% women), entrepreneur (11.3% women), marketing (33.8% women), human resources (48.7% women)
• No big difference seen in the way Investors or non Investors Men/Women indicate a Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook account on their AngelList profile
• Men tend to have 3.5x more AngelList followers, 1.6x more Twitter followers than women [tab: twitterFollowersCount]
• For investors using Twitter, women investors are followed by 28% women, men investors are followed by 21% women on average – so there is a slight gender bias (Women following Women).

Gender Gap Grader produces estimates using applied onomastics Gender Gap in Start-Ups and Access to Financing and encourages readers to contribute actuals or additional statistics on the WikiGender.

References

See also

• Women in business and technology

External links

• Gender Gap Grader: “Gender Gap in Start-Ups and Access to Financing” October 2014
• Washington Post: “The glaring gender dilemma Silicon Valley venture capitalists are hiding from”
• Fortune: “Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard‘“
• Bloomberg: “The Silicon Valley diversity numbers nobody is proud of”
• New York Times: “Google Releases Employee Data, Illustrating Tech’s Diversity Challenge”