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Founding or leading a company is hard. It’s even harder for underrepresented individuals who receive less venture investment and support than their non-minority peers.
Over the past decade, the percentage of invested dollars to female-only founded companies has stood at a mere 3 percent. Much like ethnically and racially diverse entrepreneurs, female entrepreneurs and CEOs are also subject to investment inequities.
That’s why Crunchbase launched Diversity Spotlight in June, wanting to help close the inequity gap by making it easier to find and invest in companies founded and led by underrepresented individuals.
One step you can take right now to move the needle is to create a Crunchbase account and ensure your company’s profile is up-to-date by following these steps. The more up-to-date the profile, the higher chance it has to show up when investors are searching for investment opportunities.
If you’d like to add your company’s Diversity Spotlight data you can do so by following these steps. Or, if you’d like to begin searching for companies with diverse leadership, you can do so here.
Read the full article on Crunchbase.
We can only 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿 to this initiative! Well done, Crunchbase!
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2nd International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles
E-Textiles 2020: International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles will give people from academia and industry the opportunity to discuss the exciting innovations and challenges in the rapidly emerging field of e-textiles. Topics include, but are not limited to:
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Illustration by Anna Leovy
Three Sustainable Fashion Trailblazers on Boycotting, Buzzwords, and Consumerism / via Teen Vogue
The Women Of Color Activists Behind Sustainable Fashion / via Refinery29
13 Amazing Companies Led by Women For Women / via redbook
Willow, the startup making the wearable breast pump, raises $55 million / via TechCrunch
Scientists identify 50 new planets from old NASA data using artificial intelligence for the first time / via Firstpost
The 4 Top Artificial Intelligence Trends For 2021 / via Forbes
Femtech players call out Facebook for rejecting women's health ads / via MobiHealthNews
Pandemic accelerates wearables market in Brazil | via ZDNet
Wearable shipments spike by 60 million for 2020 despite COVID-19 lockdowns, IDC says / via CNet
Contactless Tech is Opening New Opportunities in Wearable Payments / via Mobile ID World
Femtech pioneer Ida Tin on how data and technology can empower women / via Girls In Tech podcast
Femtech – a niche term for a mainstream market? / via Talking Tech – The Nordic View podcast
Women And Weed, with Colleen Fisher Tully / via FemTech Focus podcast
For Female Founders, Women In Tech & Allies 👩🏾⚕️👩🏼🏫👩🔬
Become a WoW member to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources and discover career opportunities!
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