Women in venture capital or VC are investors who provide venture capital funding to startups. Women make up a small fraction of the venture capital private equity workforce. A widely used source for tracking the number of women in venture capital is the Midas List which has been published by Forbes since 2001. Research from Women in VC, a global community of women venture investors, shows that the percentage of female VC partners is just shy of 5 percent.
Ellen Pao, who began her venture capital career at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has also worked as an executive for Reddit, Flipboard and other technology companies.
Ellen Kangru Pao is an American investor and former interim CEO of social media company Reddit.
Ellen Pao in 2015
Pao speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 4, 2019.