This past February, we at #ANGELS challenged the tech industry to talk about, measure and fix #TheGapTable. The cap table — the document that records who has ownership in a startup — holds the roadmap to power in Silicon Valley. Cap table wealth enables individuals to fund the next generation of products and institutions that shape our industry — and increasingly the world — through investing, starting a venture firm, founding a startup or funding political and philanthropic campaigns. We called it #TheGapTable because we suspected that women have a disproportionately low share of startup equity and capture just a fraction of the industry’s wealth creation. We now have the data to prove it, thanks to Carta.
