Today’s Pick: Women get less angel capital
Women entrepreneurs receive less angel funding than their male counterparts, partly because they seek funding at lower rates, and are more likely to seek funds from women angels than male angels, according to new research conducted by Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
Sohl and co-author John Becker-Blease, a former UNH professor now at Washington State University, present the results of their research in the July issue of the Journal of Business Venturing in the article, “Do women-owned businesses have equal access to angel capital?�.
Read more: “New Research Explores Whether Women Have Equal Access To Angel Capital”
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