The (untitled) book is an exploration into the question of why female founding teams receive such a dramatically low amount (2%, in the United States) of venture capital funding, why this is a bad thing, and how we can understand and modify the systemic factors that got us here.  

This book aims to help its audience better understand three core topics and their intersections.

Venture Capital

• What is venture capital, and why is it so powerful?

• How do VCs make decisions about which founders to invest in, and why?  

• How do VCs partner with founders over the lifespan of a company? What are their goals and why?

• Why is it important for women to access more venture capital? 

• Why don't more women pursue venture financing? 

• If the underfunding of women is a market inefficiency, why has it not been successfully exploited yet? 

• Who are the women who are successfully accessing VC funding? What are their stories and experiences? 

• Who are the women working in venture capital? What are their stories and experiences? 

• What alternate forms of financing are available for startups? What types of financing are women pursuing and why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of them?

• Who are the VCs working actively to include more female founders in their portfolios? How are they approaching it? What are the results?

Women in/and Tech

• Why are there so few women pursuing computer science degrees today, especially compared to several decades ago? 

• Why are women so underrepresented in the engineering and product teams at startups and tech companies? 

• Why do women leave tech careers at such a high rate? 

• What are the experiences and stories of women who work in technical fields?

• Who is likely to be successful today in a tech career? 

• What is the impact of the lack of diversity in tech careers? 

• Why are so few women founding tech companies overall? 

• What are the experiences and stories of the women who do found tech companies? 

The Systems that Got Us Here

• What is the patriarchy, and how does it manifest in our lives and decisions today?

• How and why did systems of patriarchy begin? How did they persist and manifest historically? 

• Who is harmed by systems of patriarchy, and how? 

• How can modern-day feminism better include and support male allies? 

• How can we actively dismantle these systems for the greater good?

This book will focus on helping the reader better understand, appreciate and "smash" the systemic factors that hinder women today, and it will share the stories and strategies of the people, projects and funds that are creating pathways for women to more fully participate in capitalism. 

This book will acknowledge the reality and harm of active, intentional misogyny in technology and finance, but that won't be its focus. (There's plenty of brilliant writing on that topic and room for plenty more, but it's not the goal here.) 

Instead, this book will focus on helping its audience work against the more pervasive systemic, unintentional misogyny (aka "the patriarchy") by creating better visibility and understanding around these systems and shining a light on the people who are working toward building improved systems. 

The book has a publisher and is projected to be released in summer 2024. Maybe one day it will have a title, too.