A 2015 analysis by the American venture capital firm First Round Capital of 300 companies in which it had invested since 2005 revealed that companies with at least one female founder performed 63pc better than firms founded entirely by men. Yet women entrepreneurs remain a distinct minority in the US: Only roughly 18pc of new VC-backed ventures include a female co-founder.

(Source: Harvard Business Review)

Published in Dawn, Business & Finance weekly, May 23rd, 2016