February 28, 2020
Are accelerators addressing the gender financing gap?
Last week, my colleagues Heather and Deepak attended the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) MENA Regional Summit in Dubai, where they took part in the unveiling of important new research from IFC, conducted in partnership with our team at Village Capital. The genesis of the research started with a well-known problem: the gender financing gap. Female-led startups in emerging markets raise only about $1 of seed funding for every $9 raised by all-male teams.