Closing the Gender Gap in Venture Capital

Sway Ventures’ Retail & Brands Partner, Shelly Kapoor-Collins joins Randi Zuckerberg to discuss the challenges surrounding Closing the Gender Gap in Venture Capital, advances being made, and ways we can accelerate reducing gender inequalities through business environment reforms, strengthening women-owned enterprises, and creating better employment opportunities for women.

Female-founded companies are raising venture capital at significantly higher levels than at any point in the last decade, BUT the gap in funding between all-women teams and mixed-gender teams continues to grow. And female-founded startups' share of overall VC dollars remains small. Today Randi Zuckerberg talks about challenges surrounding this topic, advances being made, and ways we can accelerate reducing gender inequalities through business environment reforms, strengthening women-owned enterprises, and creating better employment opportunities for women.