Horizon CDT Year 1

女性创办的企业获得了2%的风险投资资金(英国商业银行，2023年)，这表明了性别投资差距。此外，《2023年扩大风险投资多元化超越性别》报告指出，黑人女性创始人在2013-2023年期间获得了0.14%的投资。报告还发现，创业者的种族影响他们获得风险投资的成功率，黑人和南亚创始人等少数群体获得风险投资的可能性低于白人创业者(《性别之外的多样性》，2023)。在过去的10年里，女性创始人获得的投资没有任何改善(英国商业银行，2023年)，这表明目前和以前的干预措施并未被证明是成功的。这项研究将审查数字技术在创业投资中的作用，无论是现在还是未来，以及这可能如何加强或阻碍创业投资行业目前的挑战。该项目打算回答的主要研究问题是：数字技术如何影响性别和种族投资差距？主要目标是：建立一个框架，说明根源、后果和干预措施之间的关系。确定有效的数字干预措施，以缩小投资缺口。这项研究将采用混合方法。定性数据收集将涉及对企业家投资生态系统中涉及的不同利益相关者的半结构化访谈。其目的是收集对这些利益相关者经验的深入见解。量化数据收集将是对创业者从哪里获得投资的网络分析。本研究的价值在于了解哪些数字技术干预可以改善这一问题。我将就利用技术进行干预如何改善投资缺口发表学术见解。该技术的设计者可以利用这项研究来实施设计建议或数字工具，以使投资过程对所有企业家更加公平。这一实施将有利于目前在投资过程中面临歧视的企业家，如女性和有色人种妇女，因为它的目的是减少偏见。参考文献：英国商业银行(2023年)新闻稿--2023年7月5日。可访问：https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/press-release/british-business-bank-report-reveals-no-improvement-in-the-share-of-venture-capital-investment-to-female-founder-teams-over-the-past-decade/(访问：2024年3月6日)。性别以外的多样性(2023年)。可访问：https://www.extend.vc/_files/ugd/446c2c_2545bfc7323646fa8d757ea8a2ac2a10.pdf(访问：2024年3月6日)。本文作者由诺丁汉大学地平线博士培训中心(UKRI授予编号：EP/S023305/1)。

Female-founded businesses receive 2% of venture capital funding (British Business Bank, 2023), demonstrating a gender investment gap. Furthermore, Extend Ventures Diversity Beyond Gender 2023 report states that Black women founders raised 0.14% of investment between 2013-2023. The report also found that the entrepreneur's ethnicity impacts their success rate of receiving venture capital, with minority groups such as Black and South Asian founders being less likely to receive venture capital than their White counterparts (Diversity Beyond Gender, 2023). In the last 10 years there has been no improvement in the investment female founders have received (British Business Bank, 2023), suggesting that current and previous interventions have not proven successful. This research will examine the role of digital technologies, both present and future, in entrepreneurial investment and how this may enhance or hinder the current challenges in the entrepreneurial investment industry. The main research question the project intends to answer is 'How do digital technologies influence the gender and race investment gap?' The key objectives are:To create a framework that demonstrates a relationship between the root causes, consequences and interventions. To determine effective digital interventions to reduce the investment gap. The research will use a mixed methods approach. The qualitative data collection will involve semi-structured interviews with the different stakeholders involved in the entrepreneur's investment ecosystem. The purpose is to gather in-depth insights into these stakeholders' experiences. The quantitative data collection will be a network analysis of where entrepreneurs receive investment from. The value of this research is to understand what digital technological interventions can improve this issue. I will contribute academic insights into how interventions using technology can improve the investment gap. The research can be used by designers of the technology to implement the design recommendations or digital tools needed to make the investment process fairer for all entrepreneurs. This implementation will benefit entrepreneurs who currently face discrimination in the investment process such as females and women of colour as it aims to reduce the bias. References:British Business Bank (2023) Press Release - July 5, 2023. Available at: https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/press-release/british-business-bank-report-reveals-no-improvement-in-the-share-of-venture-capital-investment-to-female-founder-teams-over-the-past-decade/ (Accessed: 6 March 2024).Diversity Beyond Gender (2023). Available at: https://www.extend.vc/_files/ugd/446c2c_2545bfc7323646fa8d757ea8a2ac2a10.pdf (Accessed: 6 March 2024).This author is supported by the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Nottingham (UKRI Grant No. EP/S023305/1).