20: That’s the number of women startup founders who have led their companies to an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange — since its founding 204 years ago — or the Nasdaq, according to an analysis by Business Insider.
If you include companies that are no longer publicly traded, or which were led but not founded by a woman, that number increases slightly. But only 4 of the 442 companies that went public in 2020 were both founded and led by women. This major imbalance is driven in large part by the lack of venture funding that goes to women founders. Pitchbook reported that in 2019, women-founded startups received only 2.7% of all venture funding in the U.S., and that share went down to 2.6% …
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