August Newsletter
👩🏽💻 WHAT DO WE DO AGAIN?
Since 2014 our mainly female angel investors have backed 51 female-founded startups creating innovative & scalable solutions to big, global problems in healthcare; finance; education; work & hiring; climate change and security.
📰 OUR NEWS
Most recent Investor Academe webinar: What Angels & Founders need to know about Due Diligence & Valuation
Our video: meet some of the angel investors on the cap tables of the UK’s best female founded startups.
Other recent webinars: The US VC Landscape with Alumni Ventures and IP & regulation for startups with Kingsley Napley
In case you missed it: watch recordings of other recent events and read our latest articles.
Pitched to our investor-led screening committee so far this year: 70+ female founded startups innovating in areas ranging from injury protection to fertility and Kevlar recycling to affordability assessment.
And we’ve been meeting our members for lunch at Home Grown throughout August! (Picture credit: Yee Mun Thum)
📰 NEWS & VIEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS
Béa: Did you read the headlines about that HFEA study? (blog post)
ImproveWell: Included in top 10 HealthTech companies for 2024
Dressipi: How to "Reduce the Google Tax" (blog post)
PheroSyn: Secures funding from Tall Grass Ventures to advance sustainable pest management solutions
PreActive: Unlocking the benefits of prehabilitation (blog post)
Fiskl: Embark with Wio Bank partnership to redefine financial management with AI
Provenance: How Cult Beauty brands saw 34% higher purchase rate with Provenance (case study)
Century Tech: Hiring a Partnership Executive (Midlands, UK)
Yeo Messaging: Unveiling the Power of Continuous Facial Recognition (blog post)
ScaleXP: Best practice in managing CRM data for finance (blog post)
Abundance: The power of local: our takeaways from Innovate UK’s place-based (blog post)
📰 MEMBER & PARTNER NEWS
Jane Clemetson: Handling AI & personal info - advice from a lawyer
haysmacintyre: Check out their regularly updated Insights page
Kingsley Napley: Increasing director accountability: The new Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill (blog post)
DC Advisory: Private equity deals market update (podcast)
WiTT: Lessons from Leading Women Tech Entrepreneurs, 6-8pm 12 November
Women on Boards: “Hidden Truth” 2024 report
Alumni Ventures: Latest news and insights
Shoal IT: Productive technology
👩🏽💻 NEWS, READING & LISTENING
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz: The Little Tech Agenda #innovation #startups
SBRI: Competition 25 - Women's health #funding
Sequoia: AI’s $600B Question #AI #investment
Goldman Sachs: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit? #AI #investment
InnovateUK: Latest funding opportunities #grants #funding
Tyler Cowen: Interviews Jospeh Stiglitz #economics
HBR: The Risks of Botshit #AI #bots
Andrew Chen: Boom time startups vs Gloom time startups #startups
Sam Harris: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener on Regulating Artificial Intelligence #AI #regulation
Cindy Yu’s Chinese Whispers podcast: How China’s electric cars dominated the world #tech #automotive
Sarah Tavel: A few "Sell Work, Not Software" updated thoughts #sales #AI
Tim Ferris: Interviews Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly #tech #everything!
New York Magazine: How Product Recommendations Broke Google #ecommerce #technology
Ruxandra Teslo: Pro-progress will win when it wins women #progress #womeninSTEM
👩🏽💻 HOLIDAY READING, LISTENING AND VIEWING
Slightly late in the summer season, but…
Sarah recommends (for light relief): Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Series; Tahmima Anam’s The Startup Wife; American Fiction; Poor Things.
Yee Mun recommends (for foodie relief): Hisashi Kashiwai’s The Kamogawa Food Detectives; Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being; Asako Yuzuki’s Butter; World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain with Laurie Woolever
Michelle recommends (for science and dancing relief): Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy; Jungle; The Infinite Monkey Cage.
Simon recommends (for absolutely no relief - he doesn’t get out much): The Rest is History’s multi-part podcast on the French Revolution; Dominic Sandbrook’s Seasons in the Sun, Britain 1974-1979 (it’ll cheer you up about the UK in 2024!); Handel’s “Theodora” performed by Arcangelo.
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