BY THE NUMBERS

5 per cent of Canadian tech companies have a female founder

53 per cent of tech companies do not have women executives

8 per cent of tech company directors are women

11.8 per cent of venture-capital managing partners are women

30 per cent of Canadian venture-capital firms have a female partner

51 average age of female SMB owners

$470,000 average annual 2018 revenue of female-owned SMBs

69 per cent of small & mid-sized female business owners are sole owners

24 per cent of female SMB owners have children under 18