2021年7月16日

7秒前罗拉Gonzalez-Estefani,艾米·列文和Kinga Stanislawska欧洲女性在VC说变焦与欧盟专员•玛利亚加布里埃尔。图片:Idonea Comunicacio一群女性高管风险投资专业人士呼吁增加了女性风险资本融资作为主要的性别差距报告发现。一群妇女风险投资专业人士昨天向欧盟委员会提交了一份报告(7月15日)的缺乏在欧洲风险资本行业的女性代表。表示,发生在变焦,包含一系列的建议增加女性在该地区的参与风险资本。这份报告是伴随着一份请愿书,呼吁欧洲母系平等获取资本的风投基金。25名妇女VC普通合伙人从不同的欧盟国家发展报告。三个妇女参与发展——劳拉·Gonzalez-Estefani Kinga Stanislawska和艾米列文,会见了欧洲创新和研究专员•玛利亚Gabriel变焦。集团支持的欧洲女性在VC倡议,华沙的身体由数百名妇女来自20多个欧洲国家,倡导更多女性风投的资金。集团的综合报告给出的三个女人一起请愿书和一组计划以确保平等获取资本的欧洲母系风投基金。该报告是第一次尝试衡量女性所投的数量在欧洲,目前还没有官方数据。 The report’s authors have defined a woman-led VC firm as one where women represent at least 30pc of the general partners. The report found that only 1.7pc of all capital went to female founders in Europe from 2016 to 2020. Only 10pc of European VCs had a mixed-gender general partnership team in the same period. Women-led VC firms held just €5bn assets in that time out of the €51bn held by all of the region’s VC firms. The report recommended that at least 30pc of available funding should go to women-led VC funds over the next four years. This would represent a jump from 3pc. To achieve this, the group suggested that a European Fund of Funds totalling €3bn is established. This could be used to anchor female-led VCs and growth funds by contributing up to 50pc of the capitalisation of those funds, up to a maximum commitment size of €100m per fund. European Women in VC also recommended a co-investment fund is set up at the European Union level to match VC funding to female founders. This kind of mechanism is already in place to boost funding in key sectors such as AI and space-tech. However, the group claims that 90pc of female-led VCs are blocked from accessing such funding as VCs need to have the backing of the European Investment Fund to be eligible. Gabriel commented on the report presented to her, promising the European Commission would support the initiative. “We’d like to make Europe in 2030 the continent with the highest growth of female tech founders, CEOs, tech investors,” said the commissioner. “We will do our utmost to analyse this report and to show how, together, we’ll have concrete follow-up actions.” Meanwhile, Dublin-based VC firm, Frontline Ventures, which has one woman principal on its team, this week invested in Irish cloud security platform, Akeero. Akeero raised $1.2m in a pre-seed funding round which was led by Frontline Ventures. Other investors included Trusight Ventures, Tiny VC, Capitoria and Oyster Capital Investments. Akeero also happens to have a woman on its founding team. Anthi Gilligan serves as CISO at the company alongside co-founders Stuart Cameron (COO) and Ciarán O’Keeffe (CEO).