{"id":1567,"date":"2019-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.carta.com\/sg\/blog\/table-stakes-2019-recap\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T06:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:56:54","slug":"table-stakes-2019-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-staging.carta.com\/sg\/blog\/table-stakes-2019-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is underrepresented groups: A look back at Table Stakes 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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On November 4th at Fort Mason in San Francisco, hundreds of people came together for the first-ever Table Stakes event to discuss the launch of the Table Stakes initiative and release of Carta\u2019s second annual gender equity gap report<\/a>. We took a closer look at the numbers and data and hosted discussions with founders and investors on how to make real, lasting change to close the gender equity gap.\u00a0

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Table Stakes is about making equity fairer and turning the tables for women in business. Sara Mauskopf, CEO and co-founder of Winnie, summed it up: \u201cOnce you get women early on in the cap table, they unlock a lot of networks of other women.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Carta CEO Henry Ward kicked off the night by explaining how Table Stakes helps Carta achieve its mission of creating more owners<\/a> and a fairer world. #ANGELS Chloe Sladden, Jessica Verrilli, April Underwood, and Jana Messerschmidt, the originators of the idea of a gender equity gap study<\/a>, followed by sharing what first initially sparked the idea of quantifying the gender equity gap and how Carta answered the call for data.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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A year ago we @HashtagAngels<\/a> published #TheGapTable<\/a> study with @cartainc<\/a>, revealing women hold just 9% of the equity in startups.

Tonight we\u2019re joining Carta for an update on the numbers and a discussion of the work to be done. pic.twitter.com\/bSdvLyJ8Ik<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u2014 Jessica Verrilli (@jess) November 5, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Next, Emily Kramer, VP of Marketing at Carta and author of the Table Stakes study, presented on the data and numbers behind this year\u2019s study<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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After analyzing data from 350,000 founders and employees and approximately 10 billion dollars in equity, some shocking statistics were found, including:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n