Are things getting better or worse for women in tech in 2017? originally appeared on Quora – the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
Are things getting better for women in tech? I’ll comment on founders and investors since this is the world I’m most familiar with.
Founders
Let’s take a look at hard numbers first. There is an upward trajectory in the percentage of startups with woman founders who receive funding. In 2007, only 7.2% of global VC deals had at least one female founder. In 2016, that number reached 16.8%. Female-founded, VC-funded: The numbers behind venture investment in women.
VCs
In addition, according to Techcrunch, 7% of partners at top 100 VC firms are women, from an almost insignificant base twenty years ago. Our late co-founder Kathryn Gould started Foundation Capital almost twenty-two years ago, and she said she could count on one hand the number of female VCs who were her peers.
“In the last three years, according to CrunchBase data, sixteen percent of…