Unsurprisingly, women also fare poorly in other focal points of global entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, when comparing Israel to the international entrepreneurial hubs, the data shows that Israel lags behind both in the ratio of women entrepreneurs and in the level of capital that women raise for startups in their early stages. In practice, of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe and the US, only in Paris and Amsterdam the ratio of women entrepreneurs is lower than that in Israel (where it stands at 9.4%). In New York, Silicon Valley, Dublin, Barcelona, London, Stockholm, Boston, Madrid, Helsinki, Berlin and Zurich, the ratio of women startup entrepreneurs is higher than in Israel.

In the prominent US entrepreneurial ecosystems – to which Israeli innovation aspires – the ratio of women entrepreneurs is higher than in Israel. According to data published by Startup Genome and produced for the Innovation Authority, in Silicon Valley, this figure stands at 12.9%, in Boston 12.8%, and in New York the ratio is even higher, standing at 16.8% of all entrepreneurs. These figures relate to companies founded from 2010 and are based on data retrieved from CrunchBase database. The figures include those defined as company Founders or Co-founders, or CEOs.

According to Startup Genome, in the growing European startups scene, women comprise 10.8% of all startup entrepreneurs. The ratio of women entrepreneurs in some of the cities considered leaders of European entrepreneurship are as follows: London (13%), Paris (9%), berlin (10.2%), and Stockholm (12.9%). Despite the gradual increase in the ratio of women entrepreneurs in European startups over the last decade, it still stands at less than 15% each year. The ratio of women entrepreneurs in Europe is similar to the ratio of funding raised by startups founded by women: 10% of the total funding for startups in Europe over the past three years. This ratio remained steady since 2018. Comparisons show that in European cities, the ratio of investment in early-stage startups founded by women is higher than in Israel. For example, in London, Stockholm, and Zurich, the ratio of investment in early-stage startups founded by women is 18%. Even in countries with a lower ratio of women entrepreneurs, the ratio of investment in their startups is higher than in Israel – in Madrid the rate stands at 19%, in Berlin 15%, and in Paris 12%.