Women in High-Tech

The Israeli high-tech industry is at the forefront of Israeli innovation and its achievements set new records every year. Nevertheless, as far as gender equality is concerned, Israeli high-tech has significant room for improvement. Women comprise only one third of Israeli high-tech employees, a figure that has remained constant over time. At each stage of […]

Israel Innovation Authority Grants:

An examination of the requests submitted by women for grants from the various Innovation Authority incentive programs reveals that the ratio of women submitting such requests is similar to their ratio in the general entrepreneurial field in Israel. For example, in 2020- 2021, requests submitted by women comprised 15% of all grant requests submitted to […]

Between Paris and Zurich

Unsurprisingly, women also fare poorly in other focal points of global entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, when comparing Israel to the international entrepreneurial hubs, the data shows that Israel lags behind both in the ratio of women entrepreneurs and in the level of capital that women raise for startups in their early stages. In practice, of the leading […]

Investing in Venture Capital

Another of the entrepreneurial ecosystem’s significant and influential elements is that of venture capital investors. As those controlling the “flow” of investment, these investors decide which startups will receive funding and therefore contribute significantly to shaping the Israeli startup arena. To a large degree, the funding they provide to startups frequently decides which startups will […]

Less Than One Tenth:

Less Than One Tenth: Women Technology Entrepreneurs in Israel To clarify the gender situation of technology entrepreneurship in Israel, we analyzed data relating to 8,668 startups founded between 2010-2021 in which the CEO’s gender was known. An Israel Innovation Authority adaptation of the data retrieved from the IVC database reveals that the ratio of women […]

Summary

What Can Be Done to Improve Gender Equality in Israeli High-Tech? In this report, we have presented an up-to-date situation report describing the representation of women at different stages pertaining to their employment in the Israeli innovation ecosystem. A wide range of reasons leads to a low number of women in hightech, from social paving […]