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What the market taught us about LGBTQIA+ equity
As Pride month came to a close this past weekend, celebrations hit a fever pitch around the globe. Queer acceptance and visibility has been one of the great inclusion stories of the 21st century (in some countries). Even so, LGBTQIA+ people still face discrimination in housing, healthcare and finance. In 2022, such founders received less than 0.5% of venture funding. That same year, The Investment Integration Project’s William Burckart and Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management’s Megan Kashner launched Colorful Capital to test their thesis that LGBTQIA+ inequity is a market failure that creates systemic economic risk. Two years later they announced they would stop trying to raise that first fund. In a guest post on ImpactAlpha, Burckart and Kashner write for the first time publicly about the fund's short life.
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