The Role of Women in Founding Top Startups Worldwide

Abstract

The work investigates the role of women as co-founders of glob­ally successful startups, particularly their impact on the company’s mis­sion and vision. The authors’ initial research on entrepreneurial and or­ganizational profiles in top startups worldwide underlined that the pres­ence of women as co-founders of globally successful startups is very limit­ed (Giusepponi, Tavoletti & Tosi, 2019). The study presented here highlights that a female presence in the founding team supports the sharing of the vi­sion and the effectiveness of the mission, and these elements are reflected in the organizational culture, specifically in the sense of corporate belong­ing and cohesion. This study is based on secondary sources derived from ad­vanced analyses in terms of connections between variables within the start­ups studied. From an advancement perspective, the research could be deep­ened by studying other impact profiles and, considering that it is here lim­ited to 109 top global startups, extended to other entrepreneurial realities.