Startup founder Melissa Hanna says more Silicon Valley investors need to be courageous and invest in people ‘who are not like them’

“One of the challenges underrepresented founders, like myself, are facing today is we don’t have the typical backgrounds compared with the previous generation of founders in Silicon Valley,” she told Business Insider. “We don’t fit into the San Francisco, Palo Alto white boys club.”

“We can work on coaching more people of colour into STEM, we can create more programs that help early-stage founders grow their businesses, we can do all these great things to help the founders and their companies,” said Hanna in an interview with Business Insider. “But it’s also about the investors being courageous enough to take risks and invest in people who are not like them.”

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