September newsletter
OUR NEWS
Our latest investment is in ImproveWell.
We made a little film! Please watch it and tell us what you think.
Sarah Turner, our CEO, was interviewed by The Gender Index: bootstrap your business for as long as you can .
Webinars: in our next “View from the Mid-Market” with DC Advisory, we look at FinTech trends, 5-6pm 20 Sep.
In case you missed it: watch recordings of other recent events and read our latest articles.
Pitched to our angel investors this month: Lukango (insure tech) and PheroSyn (ag tech) - learn more about these investment opportunities.
NEWS FROM OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS
Applied: CEO Khyati Sundaram talks about how to turn job interviews into a fair and predictive process
Béa Fertility: featured in The Times, Insider Magazine, Forbes, The Guardian and many other publications announcing their funding round and product launch. They were also temporarily a hot topic on Mums Net and Reddit!
Cypher Coders: ran a kids hackathon for our partners at Spinks & Nash Squared
Figaro: Co-Founder & CEO Lydia Gregory nominated in the entrepreneur category for Music Week’s Women in Music Awards
Loowatt: featured on CNN’s Going Green TV show broadcast in 7 languages to more than 200 countries & 475 million households. (The Loowatt piece starts at 14.00.)
Muse Finance: One of 15 companies featured in Best Startup London’s fintech round-up
Nix and Kix: co-founder Julia Kessler is one of 10 women nominated for this year’s Women of the Year award and is interviewed for the Bluebox Blog
Nuggets: Working with The Bank of England to Develop Privacy & Identity Layer for the Digital Pound
Provenance: top Escape the City’s “Escape 100” from 13,000 nominations and launches their Shopify app to bring sustainability to millions of merchants
Samphire Neuroscience: what they learnt about the gender pain-gap while building their company
PORTFOLIO JOBS:
Fiskl: recruiting a Sales Development Reps, Marketing Lead & Community Manager
Enterprise Alumni: recruiting a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Loowatt: recruiting a Business Development Manager (South Africa)
Good Loop: recruiting a Research Associate, Software Development Manager & Accounts Assistant
MEMBER & PARTNER NEWS
Ros Singleton: interviewed in the EnterpriseAlumni #MyFirstMcJob series
Susan Sternglass-Noble: appointed as a US-UK Fulbright Commissioner
DC Advisory: Global Deals Round-Up
haysmacintyre: are hiring in various business tax roles; also read their latest Private Client Briefing for individuals, families & trustees
Kingsley Napley: Lifecycle of a Tech Startup series
Next WiTT event: A Night at the Movies - a screening of selected TED presentations by women, 6-8pm 27 Sept
Latest blog from Shoal IT: good housekeeping
Women on Boards: browse their autumn events
Alumni Ventures: Ron Levin, Managing Partner, has published his book, “Higher Purpose Venture Capital”
NEWS & EVENTS FROM OUT THERE
Joyce Shen: Demystifying the Cap Table
Huffpost: Why women over 40 are held back at work
Innovate UK: Latest news, including competitions
Zinc Ventures: Join their next Venture Builder and Eliminate Environmental Threats to our Health
Computer Weekly & Nash Squared: Annual Diversity in Tech conference, 11 Oct
Hive Founders: Apply to their Investment Readiness Accelerator - Cohort V
More about Angel Academe: join us as an angel investor, apply to pitch, support us as a sponsor.
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