TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 9月4日 01時00分

Anu Duggal and Sutian Dong are the partners of the Female Founders Fund, a venture capital firm dedicated to funding new tech-related companies created by women. Duggal and Dong run an ambitious calendar of gatherings to help advance the businesses they’ve had a hand in launching — everything from off-the-record press dinners and breakfasts with uber-successful CEOs to office hours at Instagram. Duggal, an entrepreneur herself, launched the fund solo in 2014, bringing on experienced investor Dong as a partner in 2016. Their mission to support #womenentrepreneurs comes in part from a place of wanting to see #women succeed — but it also makes good business sense. Studies have shown that diversity only helps the bottom line; McKinsey & Company found in 2015 that businesses in the top quartiles for racial and ethnic diversity and gender diversity are 35% and 15% more likely to outperform their competitors. “When you think about the face of entrepreneurship 10 to 20 years ago, it looked very different than what it does today,” Dong tells TIME. For investors who look for patterns in past successes to recreate, #femalefounders rarely fit the model, she says, but that’s where she and Duggal see profit potential. The biggest challenge has been convincing others that female founders will make big returns, Duggal says, but she and Dong have taken massive strides toward overcoming it: Female Founders Fund announced in May that it has raised an impressive $27 million from investors like @melindafrenchgates, @stitchfix CEO @klaker and @girlswhocode founder @reshmasaujani. “We’re paving the way and opening up the path for so many other female investors to take that leap,” Dong says. Duggal adds, "We’re saying to the world that you can have a fund that’s 100% female founders and compete with everybody else in the market.” Dong and Duggal are just some of the extraordinary women TIME is visiting on a cross-country road trip this summer. Read more at TIME.com/women-across-america. #TIMEroadtrip Photograph by @kyokopajama for TIME

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