Tech City UK: Females

(asked on 21st January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the business founders receiving funds from Tech City were female in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 24th January 2019

Tech Nation (formerly Tech City UK) is a private sector organisation that receives grant funding from DCMS. While Tech Nation does not directly fund tech start-ups, they do run programmes such as Founders Network, Rising Stars, Upscale, and Future Fifty, that help start-ups access funding. Across these programmes, 35% of the founders are women and 65% men.

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