PitchBook: in 2021, 223 male-founded video game startups raised $4.1B, five women-founded startups raised $1.2M, and 62 mixed-gender startups raised $400.9M
and even worse for studios led by marginalized devs. Even at a peak in 2021, $4.1B in VC funding went to 223 companies led by men, while $1.2M went to 5 companies led by women. https://www.polygon.com...
PitchBook: female-founded startups raised a record $40.4B across 2,661 VC deals in the first three quarters of 2021 with a $59 billion all-time high in exits
but are on track for a stellar 2021 Fortune : Female-founded startups had a dire 2020. In 2021, they're breaking records for money raised and exits Tweets: Lizelle van Vuuren / @heylizelle : Women are...
Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B
Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs
the great Indian telecom battle Tweets: Yoolim Lee / @yoolimleenews : Jio has been transformative in India. Its affordability is enpowering people in rural areas and hopefully will reduce the gender g...
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $388M, up 48% YoY, vs. $359.7M est., DAUs of 203M, up 8% YoY, and that its net loss shrunk from $353M to $255M YoY; stock jumps 13%+
Snap Inc. has been slowly righting its ship recently … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Snap reports strong Q2 earnings, beating revenue and daily active user expectations Tweets: Meg Graham / @megancgraham ...
Profile of Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese online travel firm valued at $23B, on gender inequality and fighting internet platforms like Meituan
South China Morning Post :
Study: 7% of partners in the top 100 VC firms are women; 10% of global venture funding in 2010-15 went to startups with at least one woman founder
Hi, everyone, happy Tuesday! Tina Amirtha / Motherboard : What Numbers Can—And Can't—Tell Us About Gender In Tech