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

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: "It's actually women who are creating and leading some of the most established and promising companies overall" (@DrewAHendricks). Female entrepreneurs' accusations of sexual harassment from male VCs and others, are symptoms of entrepreneur ecosystem gender bias. Female startup founders received $1.46B in VC funding (2016) vs $58.2B to males. Does Silicon Valley mirror global tech-intensive industries? How to access power and capital for all? The experts speak. Adam Quinton, Lucas Point Ventures: "[In politics] If you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman" (Margaret Thatcher). Sharon Vosmek, Astia: "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible (Dr Maya Angelou). Dr. Patti Fletcher, SAP Successfactors: "There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman). Join us for Don't Start with Me: Funding Female-Founded Startups.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:13.4	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:17.4	The best run business is run SAP.
0:20.0	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
0:22.4	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.
0:30.2	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
0:32.4	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:33.9	If you want to run with the game changers, you are in the right place.
0:37.4	What a topic we have for you today. We haven't broached this at all on Game Changers on any of our series, but we're going to dip our toe into that.
0:45.9	I won't say Shark Infested Pool, but maybe I should. Let me read The Buzz. The Buzz on the Street is from a writer named Drew A. Hendricks. I found him and that was his handle.
0:55.5	And he says, it's actually women who are creating and leading some of the most established and
1:01.5	promising companies overall. A couple of key words in there, kids. How about creating? How about leading?
1:09.3	How about companies overall? and of course the main
1:12.7	key word is women.
1:13.8	So let's talk.
1:15.1	I think you know where I'm going with this.
1:16.8	Recent headlines report an increase in accusations by female entrepreneurs of sexual
1:22.8	harassment by male VCs, venture capitalists, and other business leaders from whom they have sought funding,
1:30.8	mostly coming out of Silicon Valley. Come on, you've all seen the news. These accounts are alarming
1:35.7	on many different levels. Perhaps of greater concern, greatest concern, is that they seem to be
1:41.3	symptoms of widespread gender bias in the entrepreneur ecosystem.
1:46.5	And that's a very big claim and a very big concern.
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