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Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Virtual Event, December 12-14, 2020, Proceedings

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Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, Not Female CEOs: The Role of Gender in Startup Fundraising

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_10,
        author={Christopher Cassion and Yuhang Qian and Constant Bossou and Margareta Ackerman},
        title={Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, Not Female CEOs: The Role of Gender in Startup Fundraising},
        proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Virtual Event, December 12-14, 2020, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={INTETAIN},
        year={2021},
        month={5},
        keywords={Gender bias Venture capital Diversity Entrepreneurship},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_10}
    }
    
  • Christopher Cassion
    Yuhang Qian
    Constant Bossou
    Margareta Ackerman
    Year: 2021
    Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, Not Female CEOs: The Role of Gender in Startup Fundraising
    INTETAIN
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_10
Christopher Cassion1, Yuhang Qian1, Constant Bossou1, Margareta Ackerman1,*
  • 1: Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
*Contact email: mackerman@scu.edu

Abstract

The allocation of venture capital is one of the primary factors determining who takes products to market, which startups succeed or fail, and as such who gets to participate in the shaping of our collective economy. While gender diversity contributes to startup success, most funding is allocated to male-only entrepreneurial teams. In the wake of COVID-19, 2020 is seeing a notable decline in funding to female and mixed-gender teams, giving raise to an urgent need to study and correct the longstanding gender bias in startup funding allocation.

We conduct an in-depth data analysis of over 48,000 companies on Crunchbase, comparing funding allocation based on the gender composition of founding teams. Detailed findings across diverse industries and geographies are presented. Further, we construct machine learning models to predict whether startups will reach an equity round, revealing the surprising finding that the CEO’s gender istheprimary determining factor for attaining funding. Policy implications for this pressing issue are discussed.

Keywords
Gender bias Venture capital Diversity Entrepreneurship
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2021-05-19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_10
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