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We have at station f needs to do its best effort to get females in the applicant pool. not necessarily selecting people because they are female — we actually discourage quotas like that at station f — but we believe that once you have more women as candidates, the conversion rate will be higher. dora founded blazer, a parisian start—up using data to analyse early response to cancer treatment. being a founder of a start—up in med tech in an environment that is going to have more ceos that are men can be a bit daunting for some founders, and the fact that station f has created this progr...

Other places are, of course, taking on the gender imbalance, too. today, there are so many resources, so many opportunities, so many discussions. people are really engaged and they want to see a difference. and this was not the case from about ten years ago, where people weren't actually even conscious that there was a gender issue in tech and it wasn't anywhere in the conversation. we have to see maybe more diversity within venture capital teams, we have to see them actually — maybe in the same way as we have done at station f — really go out and increase their applicant pool and then at ...

Apple's over there, so there's help close at hand. and five years in, a1% of the founders based here are female — a very different proportion to that of the wider international tech scene. every single partner programme we have at station f needs to do its best effort to get females in the applicant pool. not necessarily selecting people because they are female — we actually discourage quotas like that at station f — but we believe that once you have more women as candidates, the conversion rate will be higher. dora founded blazer, a parisian start—up using data to analyse early respon...

We have at station f needs to do its best effort to get females in the applicant pool. not necessarily selecting people, because they are female — we actually discourage quotas like that at station f — but we believe that once you have more women as candidates, the conversion rate will be higher. dora founded blazer, a parisian start—up using data to analyse early response to cancer treatment. being a founder of a start—up in med tech in an environment that is going to have more ceos that are men, can be a bit daunting for some founders, and the fact that station f has created this pro...

Where people weren't actually even conscious that there was a gender issue in tech and it wasn't anywhere in the conversation. we have to see maybe more diversity within venture capital teams, we have to see them actually — maybe in the same way as we have done at station f — really go out and increase their applicant pool and then at the different start—ups that they are considering funding. but i think there is a lot that needs to be done to really get us to where we need to be. whether it's fitness apps that sync with periods or solar shirts that are better for the environment, women ...