Female CEOs at last count have received a dismalincubator and research center DigitalUndivided’sTo back women-led companies, early-stage financiers may need to consider the realities facing women entrepreneurs, especially in a post-COVID world, saidSocial Entrepreneur in Residence at Oxford University, where she lectures on impact investment as well as diversity equity and inclusion.
“We need to look at actually building these considerations into the process and look at the role of having diversity internally and how that translates into having a diverse portfolio. A really big hurdle is that too many of these funds don't have diversity internally. We haven't actually changed the internal demographics of the VC funds in a way that would materially change their pipeline,” Collier explained.