emily: right, canaan partners -- and you have been there for years. >> i have been there 19 years.ve 40% of our investment professionals are female. forerunner is larger than the percentage. and i would make a bet that my firm and forerunners and cowboy probably have a higher percentage of females being invested in than anybody in the industry, because we have females at the investing table. so what i would wait to see is how that number changes over the next five to 10 years, unfortunately, not over the next one to two. emily: there are those who do not think all raise will not necessarily be as successful as you think. another investor is skeptical of the work you're doing, saying, "it will predictably fail." adding a single white woman partner is not going to change the vc firm." >> she is absolutely right. that is why all raise exists. we are a coalition of women supporting women. it is incredibly important that we have not one woman at the investing table, but two, three, four, and that not only are they in the door, but they stay in the door, and stay successful. >> it is als