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I think the TechCrunch article is misleading at best, both in title and content. The report they link to studied ~60.000 startups, of which 88 (~0.14%) were black women led. According to the article, 0.2% of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014 went to black female founders. The numbers seem proportionate to me, or am I missing something here? There simply aren't many black female founders.

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Came here to say exactly that. Not only is it proportional, but if anything is a sliver above average. The argument that TC is trying to make is on par with the people who advocate for workplace diversity and go on to say about how 50% of the hires should be black - without recognising that the black population makes up only about 13.5% in US, at which point what you're doing is discriminating against everyone else just to fill arbitrary quotas not grounded in real world statistics.

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