Within Invest Ottawa and within our technology-based venture development programming, as I noted earlier, we serve scale-up companies that generate anywhere from $500,000 to $2 million in revenue, and 77% of those companies have at least one woman co-founder and/or senior executive at the C-suite level.
When you work as a community to equip and empower and inspire more women to get into tech, we need to build that STEM pipeline. Today, only 29% of STEM jobs are held by women, and less than 18% are in senior management. If we start at younger ages, in the K to 12 school-age period, and inspire more women to pursue tech and entrepreneurship with the right programming support, expertise and investment opportunities, we absolutely see a difference and are driving that pipeline here in Ottawa for Canada. I'd love to share the data with you.