Breakingviews - VCs mistake diversity for a new asset class

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(Reuters Breakingviews) - Silicon Valley is at risk of treating diversity not as a challenge but as a new asset class. Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank Group have new funds to back entrepreneurs of color, prompted by U.S. protests against racial injustice. Yet the problem isn’t a shortage of capital – it’s that what’s there rarely goes to black and minority founders. The fix for that starts with the venture capitalists themselves.

The tech sector remains dominated by white males. Only 1% of venture capital funding went to black founders in 2018, according to a study led by Silicon Valley Bank. Only 3% of investment partners are African-American and another 3% are Latino, according to a 2018 survey by the National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte.

But VCs already have the means to back people of color – if only they would break out of their bubble. Some do, without forming new funds. Squire Technologies, a barbershop management app co-founded by two black men in Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday announced $34 million in funding led by CRV, a predominantly white-led venture capital firm. But these are the exception not the norm.

 

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