Venture capital as male-lens investing.
Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men, both as investors and the AI start-ups they fund. Gender disparities are identified in VC decision-makers, the composition of founders and the average capital...
| Publicado en: | Cambridge Journal of Economics Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 475 - 494 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
May2026
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