Guidelines for VCs Establishing Reporting Contacts

By Ginny Fahs, #MovingForward & Y-vonne Hutchinson, ReadySet & Project Include founding advisor

A survivor wants to step forward — they have been harassed or discriminated against by an employee of your venture capital firm and decide it’s time to formally report what happened. Who do they reach out to? And what happens next?

Because VC firms have not provided roadmaps for reporting, entrepreneurs facing harassment or discrimination have had had two options historically: keep quiet or tell a reporter.