The survey includes only CEOs who have served at least two full fiscal years at their companies, in order to avoid the distortions of big sign-on bonuses
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Peter Pham says investors need to stop talking about backing female-founded companies and start writing checks.
In 2020, companies with all-female founder teams nabbed only 2.4% of all venture capital invested.
Pham says it s not that hard. One-third of founders backed by his VC firm, Science, are women.
Peter Pham is known as a gifted hype man for talking up startups he s invested in when they need to raise funding.
He s used to doing it on the dance floor at conferences and over dinner. But in the last year, Pham, a founding partner of VC firm Science, has more often shared upcoming deals with his network of investors over email.
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Evolution of boards: How boardrooms have changed in more than a decade in size, gender diversity, compensation
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Women representation on corporate boards has gone up from 4.6% in 2006-07 to 14% in 2019. But this is largely driven by compliance. Even then, Amit Tandon, founder, Institutional Investor Advisory Services, says it’s a progress India must take cognizance of.
Last year, amid the pandemic, the rarefied worlds of boardrooms and annual general meetings (AGMs) went virtual. According to a report by CimplyFive, virtual AGMs were only slightly delayed by 13 days visà-vis normal times. Expectedly, they were shorter by 14 minutes even as the number of shareholders who went for e-voting surged 37% and public shareholder attendance went up six times as against 2019.