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July 11, 2019

Just 8% of UK VCs know what it's like to work at a startup

We pick the four things we all already suspected, but didn’t have hard data for, highlighted in Diversity VC’s latest report into the sector in the UK.


Amy Lewin

3 min read

Non-profit Diversity VC, which seeks to do exactly what it says on the tin, has released its latest report into the VC sector in the UK. It has looked at publicly available data on 171 active VC firms, 2,114 employees and — this is the really interesting bit — run a survey on ethnicity.

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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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