Idalia SalsamendiDigital Marketing Strategist & Influencer Catalyst

Less than 2% goes to female founders #substack #shorts

11 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker highlights the stark gender disparity in venture capital, noting that less than 2% of VC funding goes to companies founded by women and that this share has been declining year over year. The speaker attributes the problem to systemic bias within the VC industry, specifically pointing to a pattern‑matching investment approach where VCs favor companies resembling those that have previously delivered strong returns, which disadvantages female‑founded startups.

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2% is— I mean, the stats don't lie. The stats are there. Less than 2% of venture funding goes to female-founded companies. It's actually gone down year over year. So that stat first came out and it was higher, and now it's even lower, which is actually so depressing. So the stats don't lie. That's number one. Number two is it's absolutely a bias, uh, industry. And the reason for that is something called pattern matching, amongst other things. But basically, VCs The way that they invest is they pattern match to companies that have given them good outcomes in the past. And so they're like,