Women's organisation Astia draws attention to an issue which should make everyone in the venture capital industry sit up and take note: venture capitalists are not meeting women entrepreneurs but there is a growing pool of executives that are able to get funded.

The pressure on the venture capital industry to back more women entrepreneurs was ratcheted up a notch by women entrepreneurs organisation Astia in a white paper this month.

Astia draws attention to an issue which should make everyone in the venture capital industry sit up and take note: venture capitalists are not meeting women entrepreneurs but there is a growing pool of executives that are able to get funded.

Sharon Vosmek, chief executive of Astia, said:  “We continue to…