This report highlights the stress and racism that Indigenous peoples face in Canadian workplaces. The study findings point to actions that managers and team members can take to build the understanding, relationships, and work environments to help Indigenous peoples belong, contribute, and thrive in the workplace.

The research conducted by Female Funders and Highland Beta (2019) examines 55 venture funds and 26 angel investor groups in Canada.

The article explores gender in finance and highlights the need to understand much broader challenges in the firm's role and how it is governed in a world experiencing interconnected social and economic change, reflecting both internal dynamics and wider ecosystemic ones.

The report highlights the demographic attributes of Black women entrepreneurs in Canada, their businesses, their inspirations and motivations to start businesses, the barriers they face when starting or scaling their businesses, and their achievements as business owners.

The report highlighting different workplace experiences and identifies the structural barriers and disadvantages faced by employees outside dominant groups across all work areas.

According to StatsCan 2016 survey data, the Black population now accounts for 3.5% of Canada's total population. Yet, Black people and women of colour continue to face systematic disadvantages such as fewer opportunities for career advancement and less access to essential services.

By understanding the gender gap in high-tech entrepreneurship, we can learn about the decision-making process that occurs for men and women also; many corporate organizations are boosting their efforts to encourage women's participation in technical work through training and social networking programs.

When it comes to impact capital, who holds power over decisions and where to allocate investment? How can we show how - and not just where - this capital is allocated?

Despite efforts toward increasing gender diversity in the venture capital (VC) industry, a significant gender gap remains among investment decision-makers and recipients of venture capital funding.

In 2017 and 2018, only six out of 40 public and private foundations funded Black-serving organizations, and only two foundations funded Black-led organizations.

This report establishes the context for the existing inequities in the financial system in Canadian communities.

According to Crunchbase figures, in 2019, 2.8% of funding went to women-led startups; which fell to 2.3% in 2020.

Female founders secured only 2% of venture capital in the U.S. in 2021, the smallest share since 2016 and a sign that efforts to diversify the famously male-dominated industry are struggling.

According to BLCK VC, black representation in the VC ranks increased slightly in the past year, from an estimated 3 percent of investors to 4 percent in 2021.