Helping diverse-led startups succeed Women-led companies receive only 3 percent of venture capital funding —and companies led by women of color receive even less. Astia is working to change this with a global ecosystem of investors and advisors dedicated to inclusion. The organization has a strong track record of investors seeing a return and making additional investments. Cisco has provided funding to help Astia develop a tech-enabled platform to enhance how they source and screen companies applying for investment and remove bias from the investment process. We are also supporting their work to connect companies to investors and networks and institute new tools to track ESG metrics. This will enable Astia to enhance both the scale and impact of their work. Honoring young social entrepreneurs Cisco and Global Citizen have formed a strong partnership based on our shared vision of creating an inclusive future by ending global poverty. In 2020, for the third year, Cisco awarded the US$250,000 Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award . The award celebrates an individual between the ages of 18 and 30 who has contributed meaningfully toward the goal of ending poverty in their community. The 2020 winner was Christelle Kwizera , founder of Water Access Rwanda. When she was just 20, Kwizera founded Water Access Rwanda in response to the dangerous conditions that Rwandans faced when collecting water from rivers and dams, including crocodile attacks and disease-ridden water. As a university student, she launched a project to drill boreholes and install water pumps to give people easier access to water. Today, the company focuses on fixing faulty boreholes and installing systems that pipe purified water to public access points or directly to people's homes.  Christelle Kwizera, founder of Water Access Rwanda and winner of the 2020 Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award. 70,000 people supplied with clean water using Water Access Rwanda's systems FUTURE INTRO POWER INCLUSIVE 2021 Cisco Purpose Report | csr.cisco.com | ESG Reporting Hub 71