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2020 DocSend Startup Index: The Funding Divide
This week, we're publishing the second in our The Funding Divide series of reports highlighting how key factors such as gender, diversity or geography can affect a team's fundraise. We've covered how gender can affect your ability to get meetings and raising money for each fundraising round, now we're focusing on possible VC bias in how they scrutinize pitch decks depending on the gender of the founding team.

Recommend Reads

How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs

Multiple academic studies have shown that there is a strong gender bias in many different elements of the pitch process. Here's an overview of those studies.

Read the full post on Harvard Business Review

Exploring the gender gap in venture capital investing

Why do women get less funding? Straight-up sexism plays a part, but research shows a handful of factors are stacking the deck against women founders seeking investment. The team at Carta explores three of the underlying issues.

Read the full post on Medium

The Future of Marketing Measurement

Take a break from the typical virtual sessions that include far too many PowerPoint slides, and join marketing leaders Andrea Kayal of Electric, Eric Keating of Appcues, Laura Kendall of MadKudu, and Alex Poulos of DocSend, where they share their unscripted thoughts on the future of marketing measurement. 

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