“Conversation is not the metric.” #venturecapital #podcast #femalefounders

Are you seeing points of light or things that are getting better and changing for women in BC? I definitely think that there's, there's a lot more conversations, and I think that's a starting point. The challenge that I'm having right now is a lot of it is conversation. Statistics haven't changed. Actually, some of the statistics have gone in the wrong direction. We're seeing less females funded. And so I think while there is a lot more talk, and that's a starting point for sure, we need more action. We need more people to be stepping up and actually doing something about about the funding situation and if there truly is that big of a gap between what people see between male and female founders, then give us the resources that we need to actually succeed. I don't believe that. I don't believe that there is that big of a gap, and there's plenty of evidence and research to show that female founders use our capital more efficiently and we can—

higher performance, faster exits. We have all the data.

Yeah, there's all the data that exists in the world. So I don't believe the argument that you know, there exists something else. But even if you did believe that, then invest in resources for female founders. Invest in some kind of commitment to actually be doing something differently. But what we see too much now is people just talking about it, and talking is not enough.

We need to actually see action.