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About 3 percent of global venture capital dollar volume went to female-founded companies.

That鈥檚 true for this quarter. And the three preceding.

So, we asked venture capitalists for an explanation. Read what they said in聽our most recent diversity quarterly report, then聽聽your thoughts and follow-up questions for the next quarter.

While funding going into female founders is underwhelming, contract management startups raised聽$170 million across two rounds; a Berlin-based mobile banking startup also raised聽$170 million for its Series D; and there was a new聽$35 million fund聽esports along with a new聽$850 million fund for software companies.

At the earlier stage of deals, healthtech startup Mahmee raised聽$3 million to help improve maternal and infant outcomes; WAVE, a meditation music app, raised $5.65 million; and Finix raised聽$17.5 million to help companies make payment processing in-house.

To learn more about the capitalists behind these deals, Gen茅 Teare interviewed Iris Choi,聽a partner at Floodgate for the Seed Series. To portfolio founders she says, 鈥渨e want to know the three things keeping you up at night, and then all of us are going to be in place to help you through those things.鈥� As part of our Proust Goes Tech series, I chatted over black tea with Firefly鈥檚 CEO Kaan Gunay, and we were only distracted twice: when two cars sporting Firefly displays passed by.

We鈥檒l end the week by stepping out of San Francisco. DouYou,聽a China-based private technology company focused on esports, priced its IPO in a region that is聽struggling to attract notable global VC investment. We also waded 鈥渢hrough the fine threads of Catalan politics,鈥� and how聽Barcelona鈥檚 startups are pushing forward despite the political challenges.

罢辞听聽with you all,

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P.S. Here’s your tweet of the week:

Deleted a sincere tweet because I had forgotten for a second that this website is hell

鈥� Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny)

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