Vulnerable but not vulnerable
For Gina Diez Barroso, president of Dalia Empower and Grupo Diarq, women “in any case we are violated but not vulnerable.” Her look at the situation of women in the region emphasizes that there are many “entrepreneurs by obligation” and the response to the problem must include “a public-private partnership”.
The Dalia Empower referent maintains that a fundamental strategy is to help female entrepreneurs “to scale to the size at which they can already be anchored by private equity funds. In Dalia we have an important program which is the scale-up”.
breaking stereotypes
Vaeza agrees with Diez Barroso that there should be more public initiatives that help not only female entrepreneurs but also female investors, although he clarifies: “I am in favor of parity but not quotas, quotas give me a little hives”.
Education is another key for Vaeza, who points out that there is still much to be done in terms of gender bias: “95% of the risk analysts of the banks and the venture capital they are men. Then it is difficult for them to understand an enterprising woman. There are many stereotypes. For example, they have stereotypes such as
On numbers and risk profiles
As president and producer of Unicorn Hunters and a benchmark for Escuela de Inversoras, Moschini is enthusiastic about the initiatives of Gina and María Noel, women she admires and with whom she shares the commitment to end gender bias in investment matters.
“I like to talk about why invest in women with numbers because we are talking about numbers not lyrics”, Moschini insists after stressing that one of the keys to democratizing investments is to create more accessible vehicles.