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Cristina Nuñez  Cristina Nuñez Mary Beth Koeth/WWD Cofounder and general partner, True Beauty Ventures The statistics are terrible. In 2022, lower than 2 percent of enterprise capital funding went to women and lower than 1 percent to women of color. There are two parts to this. Enterprise capitalists are predominately male — women represent only 9 percent of enterprise capitalists and eight percent of firm partners. I attempt to make a difference directly, by investing and putting dollars to work to be able to change those statistics about female founders, and likewise not directly, by giving a recent face to what a enterprise capital or private equity skilled looks like. I don’t have the normal profile of what you think that of when you...