"...Looking at data, it takes especially two things to get funded. Number one is a pen!s. You've got to be male. And number two is white skin."
"...Looking at data, it takes especially two things to get funded. Number one is a pen!s. You've got to be male. And number two is white skin."
Anna Hartvigsen of Female Invest just said what every female founder thinks during every pitch meeting.
๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ:
โข Male founders: 98% of VC funding
โข Female founders: 2%
โข Black female founders: 0.27%
"A lot of people will be angry at me saying this, but I challenge you to be more angry at the fact that the world is like this."
She's not wrong.
๐ฆ๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ฒ๐ฑ?
Anna built Female Invest to 100K+ members.
Without the "right" anatomy.
Without the "right" skin color.
Without playing their game.
In this week's episode, she reveals exactly how.
๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐
๐ ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐:
If you're raising Series A as an "unfundable" founder, I have a playbook that actually works.
But only if you're ready to stop pretending the playing field is level.
Full episode with Anna ๐