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In a new survey, over 20 percent of respondents said they experienced one or more “inappropriate incidents” at the hands of investors.
Why emerging companies have little concern for security, privacy, and regulations -- and why that's an issue.
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge talks about her work combating prejudice in tech.
Not far from Sand Hill Road exists a private world of wild sex parties and “cuddle puddles.” As one male investor put it, “You could say it’s disgusting but not illegal—it just perpetuates a culture that keeps women down.”
We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.
Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it's become the new Wall Street.
Survey by First Round Capital finds that 19 percent of founders think harassment has been overblown by the media; only 17 percent have formal plan for diversity and inclusion.
Michael Ewens of Caltech and Richard Townsend of UC San Diego examined data for nearly 18,000 start-ups and found that companies started by women have a harder time finding funding because male investors prefer companies started by men.
Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer faced a lot of sexism and condescension when they launched their e-commerce marketplace for weird art–that is until they introduced an imaginary cofounder named Keith.
And companies with male CEOs still get 97 percent of all money
We already have a case study for when VCs promise progress, and it doesn’t look good.
TW sexual assault
What a year (life?) it’s been for white women, people of color and nonbinary people in tech.
More than two dozen women in the tech start-up industry spoke to The New York Times about being sexually harassed by investors and mentors.
Opinion: The lesson of Uber is that we get the companies and the economy we ask for.
Numerous allegations arise about a VC's behavior toward female founders.
With a novel app that matches companies with candidates based on merit, Stephanie Lampkin is providing the tech ranks with a missing ingredient: diversity.
It’s easy to postpone thinking about diversity while building your company—until that company implodes.