in 2016, women-led companies received $1.46 billion in investments from venture capitalists. Male-led companies, on the other hand, received $58.2 billion

It’s a well-documented fact that female founders receive less venture capital funding than their male counterparts. What is perhaps more surprising is that things haven’t improved—and have actually worsened—over the past year.

Venture capitalists invested $58.2 billion in companies with all-male founders in 2016. Meanwhile, women received just $1.46 billion in VC money last year, according to data from M&A, private equity, and venture capital database PitchBook. That massive disparity is due both to the differences in the number of deals and the average deal size by gender.

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Tech Services Stats

• 73% of organizations indicated nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2021
• To generate a single dollar of new customer revenue, Field Sales strategies have an average Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) of $1.14
• 47% of millennials want to work at diverse companies, according to a recent study.
• When venture capitalists participate in seed rounds, the average round size is 3x larger
• The fastest growing SaaS companies raise an average of $9.5M in Series A funding
• It’s common for startups to grow rapidly, doubling or tripling in size year over year, until they hit $5M in ARR
• The average SaaS company spends just 6 hours determining their pricing strategy
• The metrics that matter for each sales funnel, vary from one company to the next depending on the steps involved in the funnel
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SaaS & Tech Growth Strategy Stats

• 54% treat upselling and add-on sales as high priority
• At Twitter, 10 percent of tech roles are staffed by women
• 55% of SaaS companies rate Customer Retention as the key metric to measure
• After $10M in ARR, the median growth rate slows to just under 50%
• 51% of large (revenue >$2.5million) SaaS companies use field sales as their primary method of distribution
• In 2018, the global tech spending is forecast to amount to 3,212 billion U.S. dollars.
• Median annual gross dollar churn was 8%, 7%, 6% and 8% in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013
• At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women
• 80% of venture capital investments take place in the enterprise