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Today I’m talking to my colleague Angela Logan, news and production editor at GCV. Angela recently had a very interesting interview with Nichola Bates, head of global accelerators and innovation programmes at Boeing (which you can read here) in which Bates spoke about what it’s been like to be a woman in the corporate VC industry, how in the past there were times when she wasn’t taken seriously, or been undervalued – an experience that many, many women can relate to in the professional context – and how she’s trying to run the unit she leads differently, and hopefully in a way that also disrupts the wider corporate culture.
This opens up a larger conversation about how to support and retain women in an industry – not just the investors, but also the startup founders – where too often success can be determined by networks that favour their male peers, and it doesn’t even have to be in a malicious way, but just by the way the architecture of those networks are set up and in what contexts people tend to congregate and connect.