Female-led founders in the UK continue to receive just a fraction of the equity investment male-led founders do, according to the latest report of the Female Founders Forum – a project of The Entrepreneurs Network and Barclays.
Accelerate to Excel, the latest annual report from the Female Founders Forum, reveals the latest to Beauhurst data for 2023, showing that just 3.5% of equity investment for the first half of 2023 went to female-led businesses, while 85.1% went to male-led firms, and 11.4% went to startups co-led by women and men. In terms of the number of deals being agreed, the picture is a little better, but
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