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Today the Department for Business and Trade has published its annual Investing in Women Code which finds that venture capital fund managers who have signed up to the Code are more likely to invest in female founders. 32% of all venture capital deals made by Investing in Women Code signatories were in female-founded companies last…
The call out for f:Entrepreneur #iAlso100 2025 is underway! Small Business Britain, are on a mission to increase the number of female entrepreneurs from its current 20% to 30% in 2030 and the f:Entrepreneur campaign and all female entrepreneurs are pivotal to that. Across society, women are creating new ways of working, and new measures of success for entrepreneurship. We are…
Sustainable activewear brand TALA founded by fitness entrepreneur Grace Beverley has raised £5 million from prominent investors which includes one of the early backers of leading womenswear brand Me + Em. TALA, which was founded by Grace Beverly in 2019 and now employs 45 people, has secured the capital injection from Pembroke VCT, Venrex and…
Sie Ventures have opened up applications for their next funding readiness program: Catalyst V – kicking off in September! The purpose of their Catalyst Program is to drive more capital to diverse teams by providing better access to support, capital and network. If you are looking to fundraise in Q4, 2024 or Q1, 2025 ….
NatWest Group announced that it has now lent over £1.5bn to female-led businesses since 2021, and is on track to exceed its target to lend £2bn by the end of 2025. This is a faster pace than anticipated, and highlights the appetite of successful, women owned businesses to scale. Regionally, women in the North of…
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…
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…