Over a cup of chai at London restaurant Dishoom, Nina Mohanty tells me about the woes of trying to convince investors that her product is important. “It’s not for them, so they don’t get it,” she tells me. “At a point in time when DEI advocates are promoting that diverse teams will improve the innovation that gets created and, in turn, that innovation’s success, founders are finding it difficult to raise funding when solving problems that are too diverse from a VC’s lived experience.”
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