Dana Kanze

Female entrepreneurs get only a few percentage points of venture funding. What's causing this gap? It might be the types of questions startup founders get asked when they're invited to pitch - according to the report prepared by Dr Dana Kanze's team.

Dr Dana Kanze is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. She received her PhD from Columbia Business School and BS in Economics, magna cum laude, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her academic career, Dana worked as an investment banker, strategic consultant, and entrepreneur where she advised an lead teams of varying sizes.

Dr Kanze’s award-winning research has been published in leading academic outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in top-tier practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Her findings have been featured by BBC Radio, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Chicago Booth Review, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Inc.Magazine, Pitchbook, Quartz, Scientific American, TechCrunch, Thrive, The Wall Street Journal, and Wharton Magazine.

She enjoys mentoring and training teams for Techstars, Golden Seeds, the Angel Capital Association, 50inTech, Monarq Incubator, Women’s Entrepreneur Bootcamps, Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest, Vodafone Women in Business, Female Equity, and WeXchange MujeresSTEMprendedoras.

Dr Kanze’s TED talk showcasing research on the gender gap in venture funding has been viewed over 1.8 million time.