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Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders



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Shanea Leven
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Shanea Leven is co-founder and CEO of CodeSee, a developer platform that helps developers and development teams better understand codebases.

“Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders, and even harder for Black female founders.”
It’s a bold, even damning statement — one I made in a recent discussion speculating what’s to come in 2022 for women leading startups, like myself.
As one of a few Black female CEOs in the developer tools space, I’m often asked to comment on big, collective social issues centered in tech. It’s a lot to carry, but I realize the value to all of us in raising these issues, and my voice, when I can. Still, while I’d like to be able to offer decisive answers, I’ve got a lot of questions.
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