News Summary

• An estimated 25 million women across the world’s most advanced economies are being denied the opportunity to launch and develop their own businesses.
• The OECD trawled studies from 2013 onwards, with a focus on ones from the past few years, finding that, globally, companies founded by women receive only about 2% of total venture-capital investments.
• During fundraising women are more than twice as likely as male founders to be asked questions focused on risks.
• They are also interrupted almost five times more frequently than men are during pitch presentations and spend an average of 7.4 months fundraising compared with 5.2 months for their male counterparts.