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VC: Lack of Diversity in GPs

  1. Race
    1. “One study by HBS found Black investors made up less than 1% of the industry in 2016 (0.32%).  Other sources estimate the percent of Black investors has only increased by 1% in the past two years.“
    3. “81 percent of VC firms don’t have a single black investor. Roughly 50 percent of black investors in the industry are at the associate level or the lowest level at a firm; only 2 percent of VC partners are black.”
  2. Gender
    1. 68% of VC firms do not have any female GPs
    2. 18% of GPs are female
  3. School
    1. “After going through ~1,500 investors, I found that 40% of venture investors have attended Stanford or Harvard.”
    2. I think that means there are more male GPs that went to Stanford than female GPs.
  4. Sources
    1. BLCK VC
    2. Richard Kerby’s blog posts and backup data.
    3. AllRaise
    4. TechCrunch
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