哈佛、斯坦福、麻省理工:最善于培養女性企業家的名校
????PitchBook公司分析師安迪?懷特表示:“這些學校的許多本科生將大量精力投入到計算機科學和工程的學習上,尤其是在過去十年。這不無道理,因為這些學校本來就擅長培養這類學位持有者。因此,它們的畢業生無論男女,都能成為這類產品和公司的創造者。” ????然而,即便是這些頂尖學校培養的女性創始人和總的公司創始人數目,也十分不成比例。例如,斯坦福在過去5年中培養了40位女性創始人,名列第一,然而這只是創立公司并獲得風投資金支持的該校校友總數(378人)的11%。與之類似,女性創始人僅占哈佛MBA創始人總數(352人)的16%。 ????懷特表示,他認為男女創始人的差距將逐漸變小,他還援引了PitchBook公司從去年開始的一項研究。這項研究顯示,在過去十年中,至少擁有一名女性創始人的公司在風投基金的投資占比持續增加。這些數據顯示,在此期間,女性創立的公司在美國風投融資的占比增至以前的3倍多,在去年達到13%。 ????懷特說:“你看,有更多的錢流入了女性創立的公司中。在我看來,這一趨勢將有增無減。”(財富中文網) ????譯者:嚴匡正 |
????“A lot of the undergraduates [at these schools] have been heavily focusing on computer science and engineering, especially in the past decade or so. It makes sense, since those schools are producing those types of degree holders, that both male and female graduates would be the ones creating these products and companies,” said Andy White, a PitchBook analyst. ????However, even the top schools on the PitchBook list are seeing a large disparity between the number of female founders they graduate and the total number of company founders spawned by each school. For instance, Stanford may lead the way with 40 female founders over the past five years, but that group accounts for less than 11% of the total number (378) of Stanford alums to receive VC funding for their companies in that period. Similarly, female founders account for only about 16% of the 352 total company founders with Harvard MBAs from that same time period. ????White says he expects the gap between female and male company founders to narrow over time, though, and he even points to a PitchBook study from last year showing that companies with at least one female founder have increased their share of VC funding rounds in each of the previous 10 years. Those numbers showed female-founded companies more than tripled their share of U.S. venture rounds during that time, rising to 13% last year. ????“You see a lot more money flowing into those companies founded by women and I can only see that increasing,” White said. |