Do women-owned businesses have equal access to angel capital?

By John R. Becker-Blease, Jeffrey E. Sohl. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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A comparison of new firm financing by gender: evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey data (2009, neutral): “Becker-Blease and Sohl (2007) surveyed angel investor portals to find that only 9% of the proposals received were from women entrepreneurs compared with 91% from men.”
The Role of Gender in Entrepreneur–Investor Relationships: A Signaling Theory Approach (2017, neutral): “Moreover, Becker-Blease and Sohl (2007) argued that the gender gap in the VC market could be partly explained by women business-owners’ lack of business angel involvement.”
Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance (2007, neutral): “There are no equivalent data on yield rates for men and women investors from other studies, but these results are consistent with demand-side evidence from the United States, which suggests that there are no statistically significant differences between men- and women-owned businesses in the likelih”
The gender gap in venture capital- progress, problems, and perspectives (2018, background): “Financial capital is a critical resource for growing firms yet, there is robust evidence that women entrepreneurs attract fewer early stage equity investments, both in the form of venture capital and angel investment (Brush 1992; Brush et al. 2001; Becker-Blease and Sohl 2007).”
The Effect of Gender Diversity on Angel Group Investment (2011, background): “Becker-Blease and Sohl (2007) report evidence consistent with homophily in the seeking and to a lesser extent the awarding of angel capital.”
About Gender Differences and the Social Environment in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions (2016, background): “Some of these weaknesses are fewer financial, human, and network resources (Becker-Blease and Sohl 2007; Brush et al. 2002; Carter and Allen 1997; Fabowale, Orser, and Riding 1995; Marlow and Patton 2005; Smith-Hunter 2006), or less management experience (Brush et al.”
Financing Decisions in Family Businesses: A Review and Suggestions for Developing the Field (2017, background): “…women’s access to, and use of, debt (e.g., Coleman, 2004; Constantinidis, Cornet, & Asandei, 2006; Francis, Hasan, & Wu, 2013), angel capital (Becker-Blease & Sohl, 2007), and bootstrap financing (Neeley & Van Auken, 2010) has been explored in finance and entrepreneurship journals, none of…”
The genetic basis of entrepreneurship: Effects of gender and personality (2009, background): “…compared with male entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs are less likely to seek start-up capital (Fay & Williams, 1993) and angel financing (Becker-Blease & Sohl, 2007), have less financial capital and human capital (i.e., education and quantity of work experience) invested in their…”
Gender Stereotypes and Venture Support Decisions: How Governmental Venture Capitalists Socially Construct Entrepreneurs’ Potential (2017, background): “In other empirical studies, Fay and Williams found bankers perceive men to have more attributes associated with successful entrepreneurship than do women and perceive women as less capable or trustworthy than men (Becker-Blease & Sohl, 2007).”