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Applications for Edition 11 of the Female Founders Office Hours on Thursday 18th April 2024 are now live! They will close on Tuesday 26th March 2024. Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH) is the largest diversity and inclusion initiative in venture. Started by the Playfair Capital team in 2019, FFOH has already brought together over 2,200…
A new industry led Invest in Women Taskforce will work to unlock private investment in female business leaders and make the UK the best place in the world to be a female founder. For too long, innovative, women-led start-ups have been held back due to a lack of finance and the proportion of equity capital…
What is the Gender Index? They map every active UK company – over 4.5 million in total – in real time, providing a clear picture of the UK company landscape analysed by gender, sector, investment type, ethnic minority leadership and more. The Gender Index aims to spotlight the opportunities and challenges female-led companies face, driving…
A report by the Women-led High-Growth Enterprise Taskforce has called for more investment in female-led ventures to drive the UK’s ambitions to become a tech superpower by 2030. Advocating for significant reevaluation of investment strategies with only six per cent of high-growth enterprises being wholly or majority led by women. The Taskforce chaired by Anne Boden, founder of Starling Bank, since…
The Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab is an intensive 5-month in-house start-up accelerator programme promoting financial inclusion and providing technology and technology-enabled start-up entrepreneurs with access to capital, along with the tools, resources and connections to help further develop and scale their companies. Applications for the 2024 cohort are open until 15th March, and you can apply now…
Are you a leading female technology founder in the UK? Want to raise awareness of your Start-Up across the UK and globally? If so, this competition is for you. HM Treasury has estimated that the UK could benefit from up to £250bn in new economic value if women in the UK started and scaled businesses…
The #SheLeads campaign, presented by 365 Finance, a pioneering initiative inspired by the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship delves into the stories of trailblazing entrepreneurs Kathryn Strachan, Katie Cope, Karolina Ba, as well as co-founders Bridget Greenwood and Dr. Amber Ghaddar. #SheLeads is a platform dedicated to empowering women in entrepreneurship, shedding light on the remarkable…
The UBS Female Founder Award ceremony took place live on LinkedIn on the 14th December announcing Ana Mahony, Addition Wealth, as this year’s winner. Mélanie Keïta, Melanin Kapital, who was also named this year’s Rising Star. The UBS Female Founder Award recognizes outstanding achievements by female entrepreneurs in fintech and enterprise tech and is judged on their…
Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV), the pioneering ‘tech for good’ venture capital firm, has announced the first close of its latest fund, which is set to continue its track record of investing in technology for good. To date, a total of £33 million has been committed to the fund by investors including the British Business Bank,…
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), in partnership with the Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs (CIFE) has unveiled the new-look Invest in Women Hub at a launch event in Manchester. The Invest in Women Hub is the go-to resource for female founders seeking to understand how to access the finance needed to start,…