It’s no secret that gender equality is an issue for the tech and startup world. According to the tech data firm, CrunchBase , only about 15 percent of U.S. startups that received investor funding from 2009 to 2015 had at least one female founder.
That disparity has always rankled Seattle-based venture capitalist and Geekwire Chairman Jonathan Sposato. Nearly a year ago, Sposato was giving the keynote lecture at the annual Seattle Angel Conference for individual investors when he made an off-hand comment that changed everything. Sposato declared he would only invest in companies that had at least one female co-founder.
A year later, Sound Effect host Gabriel Spitzer talks to Sposato about what prompted that decision and whether he's stayed true to his words.
