More than $1 billion has gone to women- and minority-led companies through Regulation Crowdfunding. That's 37% of all the capital raised.

For comparison: all-women teams get about 2% of traditional venture capital.

When you let the crowd decide, the capital distributes very differently. Women- and minority-led founders' share has climbed from 24% in 2016 to nearly 39% today, across 52 states and territories.

This is what democratized access to capital actually looks like in the data.

A question for the room: is the crowd better at backing founders that institutions overlook, or is venture capital simply optimizing for something else? Curious where people land.

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Devin Thorpe
Devin Thorpe Jul 23

That's one of the things I love most about Reg CF!