February newsletter
📰 WHAT DO WE DO AGAIN?
Since 2014 our angel investors have backed 49 female-founded startups creating innovative solutions to big, global problems in healthcare; finance; education; work & hiring; climate change and security.
📰 OUR NEWS & INVESTMENTS
In a start of the year flurry, we completed a new investment in Pherosyn (our first ag tech!) and a follow-on investment in Bea Fertility.
Sarah spoke to Gareth Davies on the Tech Leaders Podcast - check out episode 86
Our next event: the EIS & SEIS tax breaks with haysmacintyre, 5-6pm 27 Feb
In our recent webinar, Yee Mun spoke to Simon about how to apply for grant funding from Innovate UK’s Investor Partnership prgramme.
Our video: meet some of the angel investors on the cap tables of the UK’s best female founded startups.
In case you missed it: watch recordings of other recent events and read our latest articles.
Met our screening committee so far this year: 22 startups in 13 sectors from femtech to VR.
📰 NEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS
Adora: “Why all businesses should get behind the new British Standard for menopause” (blog post)
Bea Fertility: Tess Cosad talked about the true cost of fertility in Elle Magazine
Fiskl: wins a coveted spot on Mastercard’s Start Path programme
Good-Loop: Amy Williams writes in Fast Company, “Business was not used for “good” last year. 2024 can be better”
Provenance: selected to join Tech Nation’s Climate Programme
👩🏽💻PORTFOLIO JOBS:
Fiskl: recruiting a Sales Development Rep, Marketing Lead & Community Manager
Uncommon: recruiting a CTO, IP Lead & more
Enterprise Alumni: recruiting a Mobile (Flutter) Software Developer
Loowatt: recruiting a Production and Supply Engineer & Design Engineer
Streeva: recruiting a Core Engineer
📰 MEMBER & PARTNER NEWS
Angela Cretu: talks about her career at Avon, rising from from Area Sales Manager to CEO
Ramona Liberoff: spoke at the DLD Conference on “Circularity & Critical Materials”
Emma Maslen: Inspir’em are winners in the Corporate Coaching & Recruitment awards
haysmacintyre: Triple Bottom Line Podcast - The Impact of AI on Business and the Economy
Kingsley Napley: follow their Lifecycle of a Tech Startup series - 15 episodes and counting in the life of KNow Wear Limited
DC Advisory: read “The Power of the Stirring Bear” Global M&A Outlook 2024 report
WiTT: upcoming events
Shoal IT: Modernising small business tech & Demonstrating cyber security benefits
📰 NEWS, READING & LISTENING
Northern Tech Awards: entries open until 18 March
MS Inclusive Ventures Lab: applications open until 15 March
Balderton: apply to join the next cohort of Launched@Balderton
Air Street Capital: The State of AI Report
The Up Group: up close with Geraldine MacCarthy, CRO at Personio
The Telegraph: The woman from Hitchin who helped send NASA back to the moon
The VC Factory: How VCs read startup pitch decks in 3 mins (or less)
Fast Company: Why millennial women are embracing angel investing
The Economist: How AI holds tantalising promise for the emerging world
House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee: “Large language models and generative AI”
NYT, 1985: “But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets.”(!)
Benedict Evans: “AI, and everything else” presentation
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