Just 13% of decision makers in the UK venture capital industry are female.
That’s according to the ‘Women in UK Venture Capital 2017’ report produced by Diversity VC and the British Venture Capital Association (BCVA), which profiled more than 1500 professionals from 160 VC firms.
Additionally, the research also found that two thirds of firms (66%) have no female decision makers at all.
There are 987 venture capital investors in the UK, the report says, while women represent 25% of mid-level roles, and 29% of junior roles – although considerably better than the investment team average of 18% – these figures are still significantly lower than the average for the UK labour force, which currently stands at 47%.
Out of the 1,557 professionals working in the UK venture capital industry, almost 600 (572) work in non-investment roles such as finance, legal and marketing. Some 43% of those in non-investment roles are female....