More than two years after the murder of George Floyd and declarations from venture capitalists, among others, of their support for DEI, there still isn’t a lot of diversity of capital in the VC biz or among those funding venture capital. And limited partners continue to explain their lack of diversity-oriented funding by pointing to barriers that, in fact, can likely be addressed with a sufficient commitment to change.
Those are some of the findings of The Equity Record, a recently released report that surveyed over 200 VCs and examined the diversity of capital in venture capital, both in limited partners’ funding of venture funds and VCs’ investments