Don't Start with Me: Funding Female-Founded Startups - Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: "Male VCs—obviously most are—are very comfortable now giving female entrepreneurs capital for 'girl stuff'" (Vivoom). Don't be fooled. Sexual harassment and discriminatory treatment toward women are not a Silicon Valley-only problem, nor can they be undone by men's "nice" blogs. Female-founded businesses are out-performing male-started businesses 5 to 1, boosting the US economy by $1.6T. Yet only 2% of funding has gone to women startup founders. What will it take to lift these gender barriers? The experts speak. Adam Quinton, Lucas Point Ventures: "Power's not given to you. You have to take it" (Beyoncé). Victoria Pettibone, Astia: "You've got only one lift to live. You can either make it chickens**t or chicken salad (Cousins). Dr. Patti Fletcher, SAP SuccessFactors: "What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power" (Henry George). Join us for Don't Start with Me: Funding Female-Founded Startups – Part 2.

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0:45.3	Thank you. Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:49.2	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
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0:54.4	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
1:02.0	You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.
1:04.0	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
1:06.1	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
1:10.7	If you want to run with the game changers, we promise you are absolutely in the right place. What is the buzz
1:11.9	today? Well, this is part two of a show we did a few weeks ago, and let me tell you, let me level set
1:18.6	here. I have a quote from a lady named Catherine Hayes. She is the co-founder and CEO of Venture
1:24.9	backed company called Vivum, V-I-V-O-O-O-M.
1:28.4	It's an ad tech startup.
1:30.4	Okay, this was an interview she did at Wharton, UPenn, for one of their articles.
1:34.6	Here's the quote, male VCs, that's venture capitalist, to those of you who don't know,
1:39.5	male VCs, and obviously most are, are very comfortable now giving female entrepreneurs capital for
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