The venture capital company TA Ventures, which invests in innovative Internet projects in Ukraine, the USA and Europe, founder and Managing Director of which is Victoria Tigipko, plans to open a fund to support startups, co-founders of which are women.
“Next year we will create a small fund for women in startups, with the condition that at least one woman be a co-founder of a startup,” she said at a press conference on the first anniversary of the Ukrainian Startup Fund in Kyiv on Thursday.
Tigipko noted that if a woman is included in the top management of a startup, the team earns 2.5 times more. Citing Baker McKenzie, she said that if there are three more women in the management of a company than its competitors, the company earns 3% more.
According to Forbes, TA Ventures has 128 investments worth more than $60 million. The fund’s largest investment is $3.85 million.
