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Yasmina Moufarrej

Yasmina is a Venture Associate at Siemens Energy Ventures and focuses on the Venture Capital channel. In the past year and eight months at Siemens Energy she supported the team in building a strong pipeline, managing deal flow, developing the investment process, and executing minority investments in Climate tech start-up companies. Yasmina has a total of 9 years of experience focused Venture Capital and Product Strategy, she led the full investment process from deal sourcing to successful transaction closing across a wide range of sectors worldwide: Climate tech, Green-tech, Fin-tech, Mobility, SaaS, Delivery and Logistics, Marketplace etc. Yasmina has a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut and a Master of Science in Finance.

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Bridging the gap between males and females in venture funding

Looking at the distribution of venture capital investments today, women receive five times less financing than their male counterparts. In 2020, only 2.3% of venture capital funds went to businesses started by women around $3.7bn and, more than $160bn went to companies created by men. Moreover, only 12% of decision-makers at venture capital firms are women, and many VC companies have no female partners.