Flip the Script: 98% of VC is Invested in Men

👋 Oh hey, it's me again with a friendly reminder to #flipthescript about investing in female founders and mixed teams. Among the very good and actionable recommendations made by Startup Coalition in their latest report, I also suggest a narrative reframe ➡️ 

🛑 stop putting the onus on female founders

💡 start putting the onus on investors

After all, we have years of data that #femalefounders and mixed teams outperform 📈 male-only teams, yet women-led ventures are still an under-capitalized asset class 💸 . We also know that female founders are over-mentored 🫠 , and that investor bias -- aka discrimination -- is real 😵‍💫 . If we were building a product, we'd look for the source of the problem to find the leverage points: if we want to get more checks into a proven asset class, I suggest we look deeper and speak more directly about the actors writing the checks. ➡️ 

❌ Instead of: "Female founder only raised 2% of VC" 

✅ Call it like it is ➡️ "Investors allocated 98% of their capital to men" 🤔 

If we want to change the game, we can't reinforce the very biases we're out to overcome. #FemaleFounders are building. There is pipeline. Allocations of capital equitable to the opportunity? Not so much... by a lot! Make the right parties 👏 answer👏 to 👏 their 👏 work.