IDC European Woman in Venture Capital

EUROPEAN WOMEN IN VC IDC #EUR148997722 © IDC 2022 52 METHODOLOGY The main data provider for this report is Dealroom.co. Dealroom.co provides data on investors, investment rounds, startups, assets under management and gender composition of GPs and startups. Venture Capital Diversity, GP & Financial data Our assessment of gender and GP positions is based on Dealroom.co data on the top VCs based on the Dealroom.co prominence ranking, supplemented with data from I5 on leading European VCs and desk research per country on leading VCs per country. For the available AuM, Dealroom.co data has been used, checked and verified where available through corporate websites and social platforms. The same applies for gender data for General partner, Managing partner or Founding Partner positions at VCs. Verification has been done on a country level, for each of the 27 European Union countries & the UK. Selection criteria applied for VCs: VCs with a minimum of €25M assets under management, headquartered in one of the 27 European Union countries or the UK. Corporate VCs, private equity, crowd funding initiatives or angel investor networks were excluded from this research. Finally, 303 VCs were included in the desk research with AuM of €25M or more, and where data was available on the General (Managing or Founding) partners and their gender. The 303 VCs together represent 710 general partners and €75B AuM. #VCs Total GPs AuM (M) Nordics 41 120 € 5.98 West 82 226 € 27.38 CEE 37 85 € 3.66 Central West 57 168 € 16.98 Southern 38 95 € 4.66 Baltics 6 16 € 350 UK 42 112 € 16.67 303 710 € 75.67