Women-led ventures succeed more often, with better returns
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Women-led companies think outside the box.
First Round Capital took a look at 300 of its portfolio companies and almost 600 founders — they found that teams with at least one female founder did 63% better than the all-male founder teams.
Moreover, companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.
"The fastest growing companies," the survey report noted, "at 200% + growth, are 75% more likely to have a female founder."
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Women-led companies recruit great talent.
In the companies where a woman serves as the chief executive, 48 percent of the executive team is female, compared with only 11 percent when the CEO is male.
Canada has a better track record than most, according to the #movethedial report. In Canada, 13 per cent of tech companies had at least one woman founder. The country's leading city for tech startups is a hot spot for female entrepreneurship. Among the new ventures, almost 30 per cent have at least one woman on the founding team.
Diversity can improve the bottom line of companies and lead to unfettered discoveries and breakthrough innovations.
03.
Women-led companies create and serve bigger markets.
Women represent the largest disruptive force in business — and the business world is unprepared.
Not only are women the dominant users of the fastest-growing mobile and social platforms, they make or influence 85 percent of all consumer purchases.
