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In a Nutshell: The Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund is committed to investing in women-owned fintech businesses. In addition to funding, the lab also provides hands-on guidance and support to enable businesses to expedite their growth. Anthemis’ deep partnerships allow founders to make the meaningful connections necessary to establish and grow their businesses.
Chief executive says it is ’heartening to see the government acknowledging the pivotal role angel investors play’
’The recent changes to the high net worth threshold in the Treasury startup coalition angel investment rules are concerning,’ says chief executive
Embedded finance allows female entrepreneurs without backgrounds in Wall Street or Silicon Valley to break into fintech, creating a new wave of founders who may have previously felt excluded from finance and technology.
“Female entrepreneurs currently lead just 4% of UK tech startups and this needs to change.”
Aviva, the FTSE 100 insurance business, has invested $10 million into a venture capital fund aimed at backing female-run UK financial technology businesses.
The Crunchbase “Female Investors Series” is comprised of stories, Q&As and thought-leadership pieces from female investors making a difference in the venture capital ecosystem.
Demonstrating and championing the economic case for gender equality in the global workplace has been a consistent feature of the Citi GPS series over many years. In this new report, we have turned our attention to advocating the business case for supporting women entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses.
So which early-stage startups in the nascent sector do VCs think have a bright future ahead of them? We asked five investors about the up-and-coming tech companies they’ve got their eye on. The only catch: they couldn’t nominate any from their portfolio.
Thanks @tasjourno @BusinessInsider for shoutout & attention to the European #femalefounders “@damekatiep doesn’t believe it’s simply a pipeline problem. @anthemis @Barclays looked at 100s of women led fintechs…by looking outside traditional networks..”
So in this piece, I’ll be spotlighting some of my favorite fintech WoC investors and founders because we do exist. I want to possess a reference that I can send to investors that will make them aware of the talented and capable WoC in fintech. My hope is that this article will help connect founders to capital and resources.
I am hopeful we will see an uptick in investment/innovation in women-lead companies in those industries as well as others.
After nearly a decade of investing in fintech, venture capital firm Anthemis is betting the studio model can diversify the sector more quickly.
Women are often marginalized from the founding community because it’s expensive to start a business, and if you're already on the back foot through barriers like the gender pay gap, then you can't solve the gender funding gap.
This month's Top 5 is focused on the top five distinctions between pre-seed and seed companies featuring Katie Palencsar and Elizabeth Davis, investors at the Female Innovators Lab by Barclays and Anthemis.
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Many people believe that successful startups will succeed in The Valley or New York City at some stage of their company -- whether driven by capital, customer growth, or the entrepreneur's dream: The acquisition.
