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Diverse founders are 70% of the population but get 4% of VC

Jared Tingle · Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24) · Dec 16, 2021 · at 19:15

Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partner at Harlem Capital, explains the demographic data driving their thesis of investing in underrepresented founders.

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“The biggest stat that we saw was that women and people of color get about four percent of VC funding, but are 70% of the population.”

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The claim, plainly

Women and people of color represent approximately 70% of the US population but receive only about 4% of venture capital funding.

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Assessment

Both assertions in Jared Tingle's claim are accurate based on demographic and venture capital funding data around 2020–2021. According to U.S. Census Bureau data (2020 Decennial Census and 2019/2020 American Community Survey estimates), non-Hispanic White men constitute approximately 28.9% to 30.0% of the U.S. population, making the combined demographic of women and men of color approximately 70% to 71.1% of the U.S. population. Concurrently, venture capital industry research from PitchBook, Crunchbase, and Harvard Business School covering 2019–2021 indicated that all-female founding teams received roughly 2.0% to 2.3% of total VC dollars and underrepresented minority founders received roughly 2.6% to 3.0%, combining to approximately 3.0% to 4.5% of total U.S. venture capital funding.

U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2020 Decennial Census and 2019 ACS showed non-Hispanic White males account for roughly 28.9% to 30.0% of the population, leaving women and people of color as approximately 70% to 71.1% of the total U.S. population.
PitchBook's 'All In: Female Founders in the VC Ecosystem' reported all-female founding teams received 2.3% of U.S. VC funding in 2020 and 2.0% to 2.5% in 2021.
Crunchbase and Harlem Capital diversity research showed Black and Latinx founders received a combined ~2.6% of VC funding in 2020, with independent reports placing aggregate funding to women and founders of color at approximately 3% to 4.5%.

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[1] jdroth.com [2] washingtonpost.com [3] epimonitor.net [4] visualcapitalist.com [5] ff.co [6] weforum.org [7] retaildive.com [8] berkeley.edu

white men percentage US population census 2020 US population demographics percentage women and people of color census venture capital funding percentage women founders of color 2020 2021 Harlem Capital venture capital diversity report 2020 2021 4 percent "70%" "4%" venture capital "women" "people of color"

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