The WashU Olin Brookings Commission presents: Bridging the Startup Funding Gap for Women & Underrepresented Minorities

The staggering imbalance of startup funding available to founders who are women or underrepresented minorities is not only inequitable but creates unrealized innovation and investment returns. Founders who are women, Black or Latinx each receive less than 2% of the startup funding available from venture capital—well out of proportion to the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the population.

This persistent reality has inspired a search for solutions by the WashU Olin Brookings Commission, a panel of successful founders, funders and policy experts who have examined the root causes of this enduring inequity. Their work has produced a slate of policy recommendations aimed at guiding the venture capital industry, founders and government policymakers toward solutions to this inequity.

Join us for a presentation from members of the WashU Olin Brookings Commission to see for yourself what’s behind this imbalance in startup support—and what can be done to help realize all innovation. (The event will be live-streamed from the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC).

Learn more and register here.