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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 So how do Israeli ventures scale up? For good reason: A tiny country of only 8 million people — 0.1% That’s the good news.