A recent research by the Businessfinancing.co.uk, a business finance news publisher, discovered that female startup founders are more likely to experience negative attitudes during funding pitches. This happens at a disproportionately larger scale compared to their male counterparts.

This claim is supported by a report by the Academy of Management entitled “We Ask Men to Win and Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding”. The report “proposes that the gap originates with a gender bias in the questions that investors pose to entrepreneurs”.

It states that female founders are more likely to be asked during funding rounds about risks and losses while men are asked promotion-focused questions. This bias puts the female founders at a significant disadvantage when raising capital for their companies.

However, this gender gap needs to be addressed as it was discovered by various sources that female founders in reality deliver higher profits. In addition, they are more likely to run a socially responsible business as they are driven by ideas more than money which is actually better for long-term success.

BusinessFinancing.co.uk analysed data from the business information resource Crunchbase to identify the top female founders in Asia and created this map to show who they are and what they do.