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Only a Fraction of U.S. IPOs Have Female Founders

Published

5 months ago

March 8, 2021

Carmen Ang

women-led IPOs

The Briefing

Over the last decade, over 2,000 companies have gone public in the U.S.—but only a fraction of these companies have been female-led
Since 2013, only 18 women have founded and led a company through to an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States

Only a Fraction of U.S. IPOs Have Female Founders

Last month, Bumble’s founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd became the youngest female CEO to take a company public in America.

Herd’s achievement generated a lot of buzz, and for good reason—since 2013, fewer than 1% of U.S. companies to go public have been female-led. In other words, Herde has hit a milestone that only about 18 other women in the U.S. have achieved in the last decade.

Using data from Insider, this graphic looks at the number of female-led IPOs in America since 2013.

A Decade of U.S. IPOs

In 2020, four women took their companies public. While that’s double the amount in 2019, it’s still only a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of companies that went public with male founders last year.

Year	All Companies that went Public	Companies with a Female Founder / CEO
2013	246	2
2014	309	2
2015	196	2
2016	125	3
2017	217	1
2018	259	2
2019	241	2
2020	442	4

Interestingly, three of the four companies in 2020 were in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries:

Annovis Bio Inc (ANVS), founded by Maria L. Maccecchini, develops drugs for neurodegeneration diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Ayala Pharmaceuticals (AYLA), founded by Roni Mamluk, is a clinical-stage oncology business focused on rare cancers
Athira Pharma (ATHA), founded by Leen Kawas, is a therapeutics company focused on Alzheimer’s disease

The fourth company, Amesite (AMST), founded by Ann Marie Sastry, develops AI software for learning institutions.

Important Note on Methodology

It’s important to note that this list excludes companies that went public with a female CEO who wasn’t an original founder.

However, Insider points out that even those figures are relatively small—only 9 extra companies would have made the list in 2020 if that was the case.

» Like this? Then you might enjoy this article The Top Female Founder in Every Country

Where does this data come from?

Source: Insider
Details: Data based on companies that are currently publicly traded. Companies that went public with a female CEO who was not the founder were excluded from the list.

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Olympics 2021: Comparing Every Sports Ball

Here are the different sizes and weights of each Olympic sports ball used in the Tokyo Olympics.

Published

1 week ago

July 19, 2021

Omri Wallach

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The Briefing

Table tennis has the smallest sports ball used in the Tokyo Olympics at just 4cm in diameter and 2.7g in weight.
The biggest by size is the basketball at 24.35cm in diameter, but the shot is more than 10 times heavier at 7.26kg.

Olympics 2021: Comparing Every Sports Ball

It might be strange having the Olympics in 2021 (an odd year), but 2020 was anything but normal.

After facing a 12-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are set to kick off from July 23 to August 8.

In addition to hosting traditional sports like running and aquatics, some sports are being introduced for the first time (karate, skateboarding) or returning after an absence (baseball).

One thing that many Olympic sports share in common? There are 17 different sports that use balls or spheres of some sort, ranging in size and weight. Here are the different balls used in the Tokyo Olympics.

Olympic Sports Balls by Size and Weight

The 2021 Olympics, which are still officially called the 2020 Olympics to keep the four-year cycle and branding consistent, are hosting 339 events across 33 different sports.

17 of those sports use balls or spheres. The official sizes and weights vary from a small diameter of 4cm for table tennis to the largest ball, a basketball with a diameter of 24.35cm.

Sport	Diameter	Weight
Table Tennis	4.00cm	2.7g
Golf	4.27cm	45.93g
Tennis	6.70cm	57.7g
Field Hockey	7.48cm	163g
Baseball	7.50cm	149g
Softball	9.55cm	177g
Shot Put	12.00cm	7,260g
Handball (Women’s)	17.51cm	350g
Handball (Men’s)	18.78cm	450g
Rhythmic Gymnastics	19.00cm	400g
Volleyball	21.01cm	270g
Water Polo (Women’s)	21.01cm	425g
Beach Volleyball	21.33cm	270g
Soccer	21.96cm	432.5g
Water Polo (Men’s)	22.28cm	425g
Basketball (Women’s)	23.24cm	538g
Basketball (Men’s)	24.35cm	608g

Even within the same categories of sports, balls have different size and weight rules based on event or gender. Water polo, handball, and basketball all have slight variations of a few centimeters in diameter and up to 100g in weight for different gender events.

But sorting the balls by weight shows that the shot is far and away the heaviest. At 7.26kg, the shot is more than 10 times heavier than a basketball. That’s because while most sporting balls are made of light material filled with air, shots are typically constructed entirely of metal.

Where does this data come from?

Source: Wired, Official Sport Rulebooks.

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Top 50 Companies Proportion of World GDP

The world’s top 50 companies are becoming more valuable, especially compared to global GDP.

Published

1 week ago

July 19, 2021

Omri Wallach

The Briefing

The combined market cap of the world’s top 50 companies was proportional to 27.6% of global GDP in 2020, up from just 4.7% of global GDP in 1990
Tech’s role continues to grow, now accounting for 21 of the top 50 companies

Top 50 Companies Proportion of World GDP

The world’s top 50 companies have become increasingly more valuable, and more powerful, over time.

As global GDP has grown over the last four decades, from $23.6 trillion in 1990 to $84.5 trillion in 2020, the proportional share of the world’s top companies by market capitalization has grown over five-fold.

Year	Global GDP	Top 50 Companies Market Cap as a % of GDP
1990	$23.6T	4.7%
2000	$34.0T	22.1%
2010	$66.2T	12.7%
2020	$84.5T	27.6%

Though the world’s top 50 companies change year-to-year, there’s also a lot of overlap.

Which Companies Dominated Each Decade?

2020’s largest company by market cap, Apple at $2.26 trillion, was the third largest company in 2010. Likewise, 2010’s largest company was Exxon Mobil, which was the second largest company in both 1990 and 2000 (but has since fallen off).

The top 50 companies in the world also highlight the increasing role of tech in the modern market. 1990’s largest company IBM was just one of three tech companies that made the ranking that year. Even in 2000, when the world’s largest company was GE, tech companies like Cisco and Microsoft only made up three of the top 10 companies by market cap.

Fast forward to 2020, and tech accounted for 42% of the top 50 companies in the world. It also plays a more prominent role on the high end of the spectrum, as six of 2020’s seven largest companies were tech-based, with only oil giant Saudi Aramco the odd one out.

Though digitization is a primary driver of current economic growth, will these trends remain steady in 10 or more years from now? Or will companies from other booming industries such as green energy take over the leaderboard?

>>Like this? You might find this article interesting, 23 Years of Shifting Tech Market Caps

Where does this data come from?

Source: Bloomberg, IMF.