{"id":601915,"date":"2019-03-13T03:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/13\/women-led-companies-are-boxed-out-of-private-equity-and-venture-capital-investments\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T03:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:57:50","slug":"women-led-companies-are-boxed-out-of-private-equity-and-venture-capital-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/03\/13\/women-led-companies-are-boxed-out-of-private-equity-and-venture-capital-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Women-led companies are boxed out of private equity and venture capital investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-06\"><\/a> <b>Women-led companies in EM are boxed out of the market for private equity and venture capital investment: <\/b>Nine times out of 10, private equity and VC money in emerging markets is going to a company led by a guy. That\u2019s the key takeaway from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifc.org\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/79e641c9-824f-4bd8-9f1c-00579862fed3\/Moving+Toward+Gender+Balance+Final.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">International Finance Corporation study (pdf)<\/a> that found that only one in ten companies to which private equity and venture capital commit capital are women-led \u2014 this as global assets under management by PE and VC outfits hits a record high of USD 3 tn.<\/p>\n<p><b>And of those women-led companies that get funding, fewer will make it big: <\/b>Women-led businesses get only 65% of the funding directed to male-led ones, indicating deep-rooted \u201csubconscious biases\u201d on the investor side of the table, the survey suggests. The authors write that \u201cmen believe external factors, such as difficulty finding qualified female talents and a lack of female interest in private equity\u201d are to blame for the imbalance \u2014 this despite research indicating the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women-led companies in EM are boxed out of the market for private equity and venture capital investment: Nine times out of 10, private equity and VC money in emerging markets is going to a company led by a guy. 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