In the United States, the percentage of startups with at least one female founder grew steadily from 2017 to 2020. As of 2019, more than a quarter of US startups had at least one woman on the founding team. Over the past four years, the number of startups with at last one female founding member grew by approximately six percent, from 22 percent in 2017 to 28 percent in 2020.
Percentage of startups with at least one female founding member in the United States between 2017 and 2020
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