Only 3% of invested dollars went to female-only founders in 2019. That percentage hasn’t changed since 2010, according to a Crunchbase report on gender disparity in startup funding.
In 2010, female-only founded companies raised a billion dollars; their male-only counterparts raised $31 billion. In 2019, female-only founded companies raised $6 billion dollars; their male counterparts, $195 billion.
In this episode of B-Side, Nicole Denholder, founder and CEO of Next Chapter Raise, tells BusinessWorld reporter Patricia B. Mirasol why gender disparity in funding exists and what women entrepreneurs—and the business community at large—can do about it.
Next Chapter Raise is a funding ecosystem based in Asia with one mission: to get female founders funded faster.
This B-Side episode was recorded remotely on Dec. 16, 2021.
