This article by Teryn O’Brien was originally published on siliconangle.com.
Diversity in the workplace provides benefits that aren’t usually seen in a group of like-minded people, including increased innovation and creativity, higher employee engagement and lower turnover. Unfortunately, diversity in gender, race, age and other demographics still isn’t a feature of today’s venture capital world.
One female VC founder and partner recently took a hard look at why diversity was lacking within the VC arena, and what she found was eye-opening. She discovered an underlying desire for diversity but a lack of overlapping networks.
