Unicorn Female Founders

Ilya Strebulaev, Professor at Stanford GSB says, "6.5% of US unicorn founders are women. Out of 4,545."  He goes on to say.

Companies with at least one female founder have a 35% lower probability of reaching unicorn status than all-male teams — that's the actual regression result, controlling for the VC-backed comparison group.  When I did the same analysis several years ago, the probability was 40%. So it is moving, but very slowly. 

Read his entire LinkedIn post here.