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The GENDEX Index provides a comprehensive analysis of gender diversity within Europe’s innovation ecosystem, with a focus on addressing the critical gender gaps in leadership and investment within the Deep Tech sector. By exploring key data points across three hierarchical tiers, GENDEX offers a nuanced understanding of the disparities and challenges faced by women in this space. Explore below to explore each of these three critical areas of analysis: Deep Tech Talent, Investment, and Intellectual & Social Capital, each accompanied by data-driven graphs and results. 

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Deeptech Talent

Deep Tech, fuelled by groundbreaking engineering and scientific advances, plays a transformative role in shaping society. However, the field faces a significant gender gap. This tier examines gender disparities in Deep Tech across Europe, focusing on women in STEM education, research, employment, and leadership roles in top-tier institutions.

Intellectual and social capital

The Intellectual and Social Capital tier examines the participation and role of women in business and research communities, showing the societal and intellectual contributions of women in various high-impact fields in the technology and Deep Tech ecosystem. Specifically, this tier focuses on IP held by women, women-led Deep Tech companies, women employed in Tech and Deep Tech, the time taken to raise the first cheque, and any term sheet differentials.

Investment tier

The Asset & Investment tier focuses on presenting data on the systemic gap in investment raised and value generated by women-led companies. Specifically, this tier focuses on:

  • Sustained value in women-led companies: looking at indicators such as the difference in median burn rates by women-led companies, compared to male-led only.
  • Funds raised by women-led companies in Europe: focusing on the total number of deals and investments raised by women-led Deep Tech companies, again compared to male-led only
  • Exits of women founders of European companies: analysing the number and total value of IPOs and non-IPO exits by women founders.