Attractive women 16% more likely to secure startup funding

'Attractive women 16% more likely to secure start-up funding' — study

Attractive female entrepreneurs are 16% more likely to receive start-up business investments from men, a new study from the University of St. Gallen has shown.

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Attractive women 16% more likely to secure startup funding

In fact, if nothing else and based on no other factor, the existence of this bias is itself telling us that attractive women are probably more ...

Why It's Harder for Women Founders to Get Venture Capital Funding

A new study co-authored by Yale SOM's Heather Tookes shows that women are less likely to get funding compared to men with similar ...

Startup funding: What role does female beauty play? - DW

Female founders who are perceived as attractive are more likely to raise funding from investors than those who are less attractive.

Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female ...

In a field study of venture-backed startups, we find that firms with female founders who received funding from female rather than male VCs are ...

Funding Challenges for Female Founders

Studies show that women are less likely to receive venture capital funding than their male counterparts. This is not because there are fewer ...

ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY IN VENTURE CAPITAL

Similarly, Babson College's Diana project on entrepreneurship finds that startups with a female executive are more likely to receive later-stage funding (Brush, ...

Gender and Race Gaps on the Path to Startup Success | NBER

Among startups backed by venture capital (VC), 14.5 percent were run by women and 2.4 percent by Hispanics and Blacks. Moreover, less than 30 percent of angel ...

Mind the investment gap: improving access to funding for female ...

Research shows that businesses with male founders or co-founders receive nearly seven times more funding than female-led companies.

Venture Capital's Funding Gender Gap Is Actually Getting Worse

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women. (Companies with both male and female ...

Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - OSF

Subsequently, female-led startups are much less likely to receive external funding, with women ... as likely to obtain VC funding as male- led ventures ...

Why are women entrepreneurs missing out on funding

We also analyse the state of play of women in the investor community and the role of female investors as a potential key driver to mobilise more capital for ...

Does Investor Gender Matter for the Success of Female ...

We find that firms with female founders who received funding from female rather than male VC partners are two times less likely to raise additional financing.

The first comprehensive study on women in venture capital and their ...

— There is scant evidence yet to suggest that on an industry-wide basis firms with a female partner are more likely to invest in startups with a ...

Investing in people, not in products: how age, gender, ethnicity, and ...

2006). Signaling an entrepreneurial attitude to potential investors resulted in lower funding for female entrepreneurs, while the same attitude ...

Accelerating Women-led Startups

a gap in debt and philanthropic funding also emerges, despite all-women teams being equally as likely to secure ... more attractive to investors. In ...

Access to Capital for Women Entrepreneurs

– Women investors demonstrate a bias toward men business owners, so the gender gap in funding is not likely to narrow simply by having more women become venture.

Women Leading Venture in a Post-COVID Market - Different Funds

And importantly for gender equity in startup funding, women-led VCs are exceptionally more likely to explicitly focus on investing in women: ...