Babson Releases New Study On Venture Capital Funding For Women Entrepreneurs: Researchers at Babson College identify enormous, untapped opportunity for venture capitalists to drive new growth and innovation by investing in women entrepreneurs

This report provides the first comprehensive analysis of venture capital investments in women entrepreneurs since the original Diana Project research conducted in 1999.1 The Diana Project examined possible reasons why fewer than 5% of all ventures receiving equity capital had women on their executive teams. Conventional wisdom suggested that women entrepreneurs were neither prepared nor motivated to found high-potential businesses. As a result, they were not good candidates for venture capital investors. But the Diana Project found that, contrary to existing perceptions, many fundable women entrepreneurs had the requisite skills and experience to lead high-growth ventures. Nonetheless, women were consistently left out of the networks of growth capital finance and appeared to lack the contacts needed to break through

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