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Metro Bank partner with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as the first-ever Champion of Women’s and Girls’ Cricket, and lead partner for the One Day women’s and men’s game. During the England Women vs New Zealand series this summer, we gave three of our female entrepreneur customers the chance to put their brand centre…
Do you know a trailblazing female entrepreneur in fintech or enterprise tech? Nominate them for the UBS Female Founder Award 2024? Click here to apply. The winner of the UBS Female Founder Award 2024 will receive USD 10,000 for her business or personal founder journey and will gain the opportunity to join the 2025 cohort of the UBS Project Female Founder….
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…