Large Gender Gap in Fundraising

Funding is what gives most startups the ability to compete with more established companies for talent.

When all of your competitors are raising money, the amount you raise matters.  And women still aren't getting enough of it.

So, if women founders are earning a higher return on investment than men [Quartz's analysis], why is there still such a large gender gap in fundraising?

Learn more about how female founders deserve to be funded, period.

Debugging the Gender Gap

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is trying to distance the company from sexist ads.  In order to do so, Irving is acting as an executive producer of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap,” a feature-length documentary looking at the reasons why more women and minorities aren’t going into tech.  The film, which is directed and produced by Robin Hauser Reynolds, is slated to premier at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival on April 19.

Will this work?  What would society gain from having more women and minorities code?  Learn more here.

Screenshot courtesy:  Code documentary