Your Techstars Venture Capital Weekly Digest is here! (Issue #39)

On a percentage basis, all-female teams remain stuck, raising just two to three percent of the total venture capital in eight of the past 10 years.

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What’s not so funny is the stats behind the stereotype: only 8% of partners at top venture capital firms are women. This is not only a disappointing reality, but fosters groupthink. If everyone looks and thinks the same we risk (…)

Camille Samuels has spent the last five years as a partner with the healthcare venture firm Venrock and a dozen years before that with Versant Ventures, where she was a managing director. This self-described “grizzled veteran” of the industry […]

Cyan Banister is leaving Founders Fund to become a member of a new early-stage investment and operations-focused firm called Long Journey Ventures. The move, first reported by Axios, brings Banister back to her early-stage roots as an investor after years at the multi-strategy and multi-stage investment fund founded by Peter Thiel.

Based on the publicly available data compiled from the websites of the most active venture capital firms in the country as well as their Linkedin employee diversity, we noticed that an average of 16% of leadership positions at VC firms are occupied by women employees, while obviously men accounted for the rest.