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In the startup world, women founders are all too rare: something like 97% of the venture capital money that goes to new startups goes to companies run by men, whose ideas get heard, backed and funded earlier

Project Entrepreneur – a media partner of Mashable – is kicking off a contest to fix that

Project Entrepreneur is an initiative from the Rent the Runway Foundation and backed by UBS that is a new venture competition for female entrepreneurs from the founders of Rent the Runway. “Project Entrepreneur is on a mission is to increase the number of women building high-growth, economically impactful companies,” the competition says, and asks women, “What will you build?” Read more…

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