“They are managing to stay buoyant, in the face of overwhelming opposition across every step of the entrepreneurial lifecycle.”
The first person to ever win two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie, the Polish scientist who discovered radioactivity, is a pioneer when it comes to women in technology. In 2009,named Curie as the most inspirational woman in science. And looking back at the challenges she faced, this is no doubt a fitting accolade.
Closer home in India, when Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started Biocon in 1978, there were very few women in business, let alone women entrepreneurs in the science and technology space. She often says that hers was perhaps the first tech startup in the country. Unsurprisingly, Shaw, who is today counted as the richest female entrepreneur in India, had to survive a hostile business environment and face a number of credibility challenges.
A number of studies have validated the bias that venture capitalists, who are mostly men, prefer to invest in companies run by other men. But the good news is that, despite women-led startups facing tougher funding prospects, the handful who do cross these barriers tend to outperform the perceived expectations.
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