The Chicago startup scene is growing and has been over the past few years. In 2013, a Forbes article highlighted how Chicago’s startup scene was “on fire”. Interestingly, out of the 24 startups that were creating all of this fire, only two of them had a female co-founder. Although, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. What about early stage startups?
A recent study conducted by Nicole Yeary at Ms.Tech and MatterMark presents pretty damning evidence against how little effort is going into the initial funding of female founded startups in Chicago.
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