{"id":11761,"date":"2023-10-03T23:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:38:34","slug":"female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Female-founded AI startups win just 2% of funding deals in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Male-skewed investment is another instance of tech gender imbalance that needs urgent redress, say researchers<\/p>\n<p>An \u201curgent issue\u201d of gender imbalance in artificial intelligence investment must be addressed according to a government-backed body which has found that female-founded companies accounted for just 2% of AI startup deals over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>The report by the Alan Turing Institute found that when female-founded companies have secured funding, they raise on average \u00a31.3m a deal compared with \u00a38.6m raised by all-male founder teams.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/04\/female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fd832b56716da1dd863469f27218b4d4edc07c5c\/0_674_5700_3420\/master\/5700.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=625fb866cad4488f1fbdbf583fd1f73d\" title=\"Female-founded AI startups win just 2% of funding deals in UK\" \/>Male-skewed investment is another instance of tech gender imbalance that needs urgent redress, say researchers<br \/>\nAn \u201curgent issue\u201d of gender imbalance in artificial intelligence investment must be addressed according to a government-backed body which has found that female-founded companies accounted for just 2% of AI startup deals over the past decade.<br \/>\nThe report by the Alan Turing Institute found that when female-founded companies have secured funding, they raise on average \u00a31.3m a deal compared with \u00a38.6m raised by all-male founder teams. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male-skewed investment is another instance of tech gender imbalance that needs urgent redress, say researchers An \u201curgent issue\u201d of gender imbalance in artificial intelligence investment must be addressed according to a government-backed body which has found that female-founded companies accounted for just 2% of AI startup deals over the past decade. The report by the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Female-founded AI startups win just 2% of funding deals in UK<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}