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http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...

According to that report, 87% of funded founders are white; 92% of funded founders are male.



You said: You are much, much more likely to get funded if you're a young white (or perhaps asian) guy doing an undergrad at Stanford than if you're a black woman studying at Berkeley.

Your data does not show this. You'd need the denominators as well, you have only the numerators.


But what percentage of applicants were neither white or male? Without knowing that your statement is essentially propaganda dressed up as statistics.




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