A group of UK-based startups, VCs and industry groups has unveiled a new framework designed to make it easier to monitor diversity in the ecosystem.
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UK startups and VCs team up to better track industry diversity
The UK alliance has unveiled a new framework to make it easier to collect more data about founders and their backers
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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