One year after a comprehensive Crunchbase report found that 7 percent of partners at the top 100 venture firms globally are women, female venture capitalists say they still have a long way to go to catch up to their male counterparts in the industry.
Kate Mitchell, who co-founded Foster City, Calif.-based Scale Venture Partners in 2000, is one of two female partners in the firm, which is currently investing out of its $335 million Fund V that closed in Q1 2016. As the co-chair of the National Venture Capital Association’s Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, Mitchell is painfully aware of the underrepresentation of women in the venture capital industry.
