Venture capital’s diversity disaster

Venture capital’s diversity disaster

6 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/venture-capitals-diversity-disaster/

The lack of diversity issue in Silicon Valley touches all aspects of the industry — entrepreneurship, big tech company demographics and venture capital. While tech companies have been a bit more deliberate about fostering diversity and inclusion in the last few years — and have made a small bit of progress — the venture capital industry is still sorely lacking in that area.

Just one percent of venture capitalists are Latinx and only three percent are black. White people, unsurprisingly, make up 70 percent of the venture capital industry, according to a recent analysis by Richard Kerby, a partner at Equal Ventures. Compared to Kerby’s 2016 analysis, women now make up 18 percent of the VC industry versus just 11 percent then. At an intersectional level, black and Latinx women make up zero percent of the venture capital industry.