Summary List PlacementAcross the venture-capital industry, women hold just 16% of the investment-partner roles, according to the National Venture Capital Association's newly published "VC Human Capital Survey." These statistics are gradually improving, up from 11% in 2016. But the low representation means that when panning among the tens of thousands of active seed investors to find the ones who have proven themselves over time, the results will return mostly men. This is not because of skill, but because women have been largely shut out of dealmaking opportunities. That's the situation the Seed 25 set out to solve.