What can be done to level the capital raising playing field for female and under-represented entrepreneurs around the world?

These organisations provide innovative solutions for disadvantaged job seekers and other groups financially affected by COVID-19

Given half of founders who raise VC are based in London, where 16% of population is black, shows how underrepresented minorities are

Startup mentor John Stapleton believes corporate leaders should move away from D&I literature and learn more from the “lived examples” of female entrepreneurs

Whether it’s moving from pandemic-era redundancy to running a startup or tapping into COVID-19 friendly products or services, women are using their resourcefulness to become small business owners

Men remain more likely than women to start their own businesses while the women who do decide to become entrepreneurs are failing to apply for scale-up loans as they think they’ll be turned down

The policies revealed in the Spring Budget focused on business survival during COVID-19. But they could also protect and empower more underrepresented groups in business than it intended

Google’s new fund for UK and European Black-led businesses could help remedy inequality issues in the funding world where white male entrepreneurs tend to receive the most external capital

A UK fintech review wants to foster further growth by training and upskilling the sector’s future workforce which is good, as long as existing gender and racial inequalities are recognised

Diverse social impact startups are the desired applicants for a new accelerator programme, could they influence representation across the business world?