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Cap table wealth enables individuals to fund the next generation of products and institutions that shape our industry — and increasingly the world — through investing, starting a venture firm, founding a startup or funding political and philanthropic campaigns. #TheGapTable means that women have a disproportionately low share of startup equity and capture just a fraction of the industry’s wealth creation— and we now have the data to prove it.