# 98 Percent of VC Funding Goes to Men. Can Women Entrepreneurs Change a Sexist System? | Venture News

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- Published at: 2018-08-14 16:15:06 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-09 03:11:36 UTC

## Author
Percy Fischel

## Subject
Venture News

## Content
It was January 2017. A 26-year-old Nadia Genevieve Masri made her way up to the second floor office of a venture capital fund in San Francisco. She was there to ask for $500,000. Masri already had four startups under her belt, and she was raising her first round of VC funding for Perksy, a market research company targeting millennial and Gen-Z audiences.