They are 27% of business creators for breaking the rules of positive impact on society. This March 8, a JFD/EY/France Digitale study reveals their potential.
Where and how many women are there in the new abundance of influential startups in recent years? What is their visibility, uniqueness, future? The research entitled “Invest in her” was carried out by Digital Women’s Day, EY and France Digitale among 1,100 companies with a social, environmental or economic impact to answer these questions in light of March 8. 2023. Its launch, which took place this Wednesday at the Ministry of Digital Transition and Telecommunications in Paris, is also the occasion for a meeting of a hundred influential start-ups founded by women and investors in an effort to accelerate fundraising.
Citizenship, social relations, agriculture…
Women, actors of positive transformation of the world and society. Overall, the study found, 27% of influential startups were founded or co-founded by women, rising to 33% for companies less than 5 years old. In this very specific area of the economy, where it is about directly participating in the improvement of society, creating a positive impact on the environment as well as people (a way of managing and/or sharing more ethical values), women are therefore increasingly present.
They are mainly found in projects aimed at citizenship and social connections, food and agriculture, responsible tourism and support organizations, but are still underrepresented in the fields of energy and mobility, pollution and industry in general. Yesterday, coming from business schools for the first time, in about 5 years something new is now among engineers through training (62%), which we find today the creators of the most influential start-ups (Centrale Supélec, Polytechnique, Arts et Métiers, SupAéro, etc. ). , as if the bridges between the scientific and business worlds are coming together more and more.
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A striking fact in this study is that women, often from the very beginning, do not sign up alone, but choose a management team (two or three co-founders) that mix in 80% of cases. “At the beginning of French tech, we saw women creating startups mainly in the health and care sectors, today they are more and more in sectors with environmental, economic and social impact, and this is gratifying”, exults Delphine Remy. -Butang, Founder of JFD Growth Accelerator. “Five years ago, few people were betting on food waste, it was one woman, Lucy Bash, who co-founded Too Good To Go. that’s where the funds want to go now. We live in a crucial moment to promote these influential start-ups with the vision and management that women know and want to transform,” concludes Delfina Remy-Butang.
Source: Le Figaro
