Venture Capital stories
How do we patch the leaky bucket of women leaving venture capital?
Today
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hcm
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leadership
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flexible work
One in four women has left venture capital in five years, spurring calls for data-driven fixes to stalled careers and leaky retention.
Women are 77% of the NHS workforce. So why are they missing from the tech that's supposed to fix it?
Yesterday
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digital transformation
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healthtech
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it industry
Women power the NHS but are sidelined in healthtech, leaving the tools meant to transform care shaped in rooms they rarely occupy.
How female-led healthtech can close the gender gap
Yesterday
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healthtech
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iwd
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opinion
Women bear the brunt of chronic illness, but a new wave of female-led health tech aims to tackle root causes and close the gender health gap.
Why closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is key to unlocking growth
Yesterday
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zendesk
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ict sector
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iwd
With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.
Carta buys ListAlpha to launch integrated private CRM
Yesterday
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crm
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fintech
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cloud security
Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.
UpGuard unveils Risk Automations to speed cyber fixes
Yesterday
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uc
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siem
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cloud security
UpGuard debuts Risk Automations to link cyber risk findings with security workflows, promising faster fixes after USD $75 million raise.
Milestone for women in Canadian VC, but gaps remain
Yesterday
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hcm
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iwd
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opinion
Half of Canadian VC funds now have a female partner, but weak promotion pathways mean women are still exiting the industry in droves.
Rooms shape power: How culture signals exclude women in tech
2 days ago
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hybrid & remote work
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marketing
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ict sector
In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.
AI, women in tech & why progress demands a human lens
3 days ago
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digital transformation
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ai
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it industry
As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.
We are not climbing a ladder, we are building it
3 days ago
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digital transformation
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physical security
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genai
Generative AI is levelling the creative-tech field, giving women a rare chance to shape rules, narratives and power from the ground up.
Rainforest adds PayPal to unify vertical software checkout
4 days ago
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crypto
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fintech
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cx
Rainforest adds PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later to its unified checkout for vertical software, aiming to shift users from cash and cheques.
Sentient unveils Arena to stress-test autonomous AI agents
4 days ago
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fintech
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rpa
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risk & compliance
Open-source lab Sentient has launched Arena, a vendor-agnostic sandbox to stress-test autonomous AI agents in complex, capital-sensitive tasks.
Moderne launches Bauhaus for agent-driven dev tools
Last week
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devops
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digital transformation
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supply chain
Moderne unveils Bauhaus, a selective programme backing startups building lifecycle infrastructure for an agent-driven dev future.
Stay22 raises $122m to drive global creator commerce push
Last week
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martech
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commerce systems
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partner programmes
Stay22 lands $122m from Summit Partners to fuel global expansion of its creator commerce tools beyond travel into wider retail.
UpGuard raises USD $75m to expand AI cyber risk tools
Last week
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digital transformation
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cloud security
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advanced persistent threat protection
UpGuard secures USD $75m Series C to scale its AI cyber risk platform, fuelling product development, global expansion and acquisitions.
Komodor triples ARR as AI reshapes SRE & cloud spend
Last week
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virtualisation
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devops
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digital transformation
Komodor triples ARR and doubles Fortune 500 reach as AI-fuelled SRE, automation and cloud cost pressure reshape reliability operations.
Telgea raises USD $5m to expand global mobile platform
Last week
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uc
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paas
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digital transformation
Telgea raises USD $5m led by Telenor to scale its unified global mobile platform for operators and multinational enterprise customers.
Aurora Tech backs 10 women-led startups in emerging markets
Last week
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agricultural technology
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ai
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healthtech
Aurora Tech names 10 women-led startups from emerging markets as finalists for non-dilutive funding and investor access in Santiago.
Potpie AI raises USD $2.2m to map massive codebases
Last week
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open source
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erp
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api
Potpie AI secures USD $2.2m pre-seed to build an ontology-first context layer helping AI agents navigate massive enterprise codebases.
General Magic raises USD $7.2m to speed insurance AI
Last week
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crm
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digital transformation
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cx
General Magic secures USD $7.2m to grow SMS-based AI agents that cut insurance quote times to minutes and slash inbound calls by 30%.