How Backing More Women-Led Companies Can Transform the Tech Industry
Tamara Steffens |
TEDxMSU
• April 2021
Currently, 98% of venture capital dollars go to male founders, and the industry has a reputation for biased investments, traditional, safe objectives, and slow-moving bureaucracy. Backing women means more than allocating capital to female founders—it's support for lifestyle choices, dismantling of biased networks, normalizing parental leave (for men and women), and taking action in getting women into authority roles—especially in industries dominated by men, like tech. Tamara shares how backing more female-founded technology companies will transform the technology industry, why entrepreneurs should build diverse teams, and how this can spur greater innovation.