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Research confirms tech founders are already well-off and well-educated before starting their companies

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While venture capital firms and founders have increasingly spoken out about the need for greater diversity among tech founders and investors, class and education is a little-discussed aspect of the diversity debate. In other words, it helps to already be comparatively wealthy and highly educated if you're going to take the massive, life-changing risk that is founding a startup.Turning to ethnicity, the survey also found 84% of Europe's tech bosses were white, compared to less than one percent of those identifying as black, African or Caribbean.

Poland came bottom, with a whopping 94% of startups being founded by all-men teams, in contrast to the 6% started by mixed teams and none by women.

 

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