The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has published a study on ‘Women Founders in European Deep Tech Start-ups’. The study was presented on 18 November 2024 at the EIT INNOVEIT Conference in Helsinki and was carried out among 7,165 start-ups across 37 countries. The study finds that the percentage of women founders in deep tech has doubled since 2010, however, women remain underrepresented in the field at 17.4% (average for 2010-2022) of all deep tech start-ups. It also reveals that women founders in the field receive less total funding compared with men founders. According to the study, women are underrepresented in deep tech start-ups, with less than one quarter (24%) of deep tech start-ups created in 2022 having at least one woman in the founding team.
EIT study finds underrepresentation of women in deep-tech start-ups
