Future of Work

How women venture capitalists invest says a lot about the inequality in their field

Venture capitalist Jenny Lee poses for a portrait in Menlo Park, California August 24, 2015. Long before she became the first woman to figure in the top-10 on Forbes "Midas List" of leading venture capital investors this year, GGV Capital's Lee cut her teeth as an engineer on Singapore's fighter jets. She went on to make millions of dollars betting on China's software and Internet boom - including buying into Xiaomi five years ago when the company had only a prototype of the smartphones that have since catapulted it up the global rankings and turned it into a $45 billion enterprise. Picture taken  August 24, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith - GF10000181594

Venture capitalist Jenny Lee in 2015, the year she became the first woman to make the top 10 on Forbes’ Midas List. Image: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Alexandra Ossola
Features Editor, Futurism
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