Women Leading Venture
2019 Report

The 2019 Different Women Leading Venture report is an in-depth analysis of women venture capitalists. It offers insights into the dynamics of over 100 women-led venture firms and their partners, looking at educational and career backgrounds, areas of expertise, management team mixes, and more. The report includes analysis as well as extensive charts and tables for closer review of the data.

This report is designed to go beyond pattern matching and provide context to help investors assess VC potential. This information can empower gender-lens investing.  

The implosion of Binary Capital in the summer of 2017 catalyzed a media narrative around gender imbalance in venture capital. Given the outsized role of venture capitalists in determining the fate of promising technologies, the question soon focused on the issue of women’s leadership at these firms and the scarcity of women GPs. While some research has looked at gender ratios in venture capital or the investment theses of women-led funds, little has been said about who these women are and where they came from. This report does just that.