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Venture Capitalists

Who Are Venture Capitalist?

Venture capitalists act as a gateway for companies on the potential brink of success, providing a vital financial stream to young start-ups and small companies. The tech and finance industry are notorious for their lack of diversity across many demographics. Notably, a 1500 person study conducted by found that over 80 percent of U.S. venture capitalists are men and 70 percent of venture capitalists are white. A little less than half went to one of two schools: Harvard or Stanford.

The lack of race, gender, and educational diversity contributes to the cyclic problem of diversity in tech. Venture capitalist fund people and ideas that have worked in the past, with a phenomenon commonly known as “pattern matching.” When past patterns have lacked diversity, future patterns will lack diversity. Startups founded by of venture capitalist funding. That causes the insularity of venture capitalists to ripple out, ultimately influencing the makeup of the tech industry by determining which companies get vital monetary resources.

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This chart shows demographics of U.S. venture capitalists in July 2018.

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Number of venture capital deals in the U.S. 2006-2025
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VC investment value in the U.S. 2025, by industry
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Value of VC investment in the U.S. 2025, by stage
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Value of venture capital investment in the U.S. 2006-2025
Value of venture capital fundraising in Europe 2019-2025, by country
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Value of venture capital investments in European startups 2015-2026

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