It has the highest percentage of women-led startups among 35 cities worldwide what were studied by San Francisco-based Compass, a provider of benchmarking software.
The report says Chicago, with 30 percent female founders, has the greatest percentage of women entrepreneurs out of the top 20 startup ecosystems. The data is based on surveys of 11,000 respondents from startups, as well as investors and others. The figure is similar to one cited by Chicago-based startup hub 1871.
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