“There are a lot of women in the LP community, but all of us would say the same thing,” says Joelle Kayden, founder of Accolade Partners, a limited partnership that invests in a variety of different venture firms including Accel and Andreessen Horowitz (two firms that had no female investment partners as of 2017). “We’d like to see more women [at venture capital firms], but if you stuck a gun to our heads, we’d invest based on returns.” Kayden’s job, after all, is to deliver returns to her own investors.
