Bethnal Green Ventures’ Post

Despite facing persistent challenges, female founders in Europe are making significant strides. 🚀 Record-breaking deal values and counts for female-founded startups have been registered in 2023, with significant funding concentrated in the UK, Ireland, and France. Despite a challenging environment, including a sharp decline in active female angel investors, female founders have shown resilience. A mere 15% of VC decision-makers are women, underscoring the gender disparity in the industry. Nonetheless, female-founded teams exhibited a quicker exit timeline than the overall European startup average, presenting an attractive quality for investors among a cautious capital deployment climate. 👉 Read this article diving into the details and explore how female entrepreneurs are shaping the future of European tech. https://lnkd.in/dwCyxGkR #FemaleFounders #VentureCapital

We've launched the 11th edition of Female Founder Office Hours and we can't wait to meet and connect another incredible 300 women founders with investors. Please share with your networks! Edition 11’s initiative will take place on April 18th, when 300 founders will have the opportunity to meet 4 investors for 15 minute mentoring and pitching sessions Over the past ten editions, founders who have attended FFOH have raised £1.4bn 💥 But this is just the beginning of the work we still need to do to close the gender funding gap If you're a woman founder, or know any women founders out there that fit these criteria, please do apply/share with them: 🌱 Inception to Series A 🚀 💻 Tech company 🌍 Europe HQ 🙋♀️ Women-led A huge thank you to everybody involved for their continued support including Google Cloud, Revolut Business, FieldHouse Associates and all the 170 investors taking the time outside of their day jobs to participate 🙏 To find out more and to apply, please check out the links in the comments below 👇 #ffoh #startups #venturecapital #technology #entrepreneurship #investing #innovation #future #founders #femalefounders #womenintech 

Proud to be included as one of the 100 Women Tech Founders to Watch by Founders Forum Group 🎉 (Women have had enough of being “watched”, but I’ll take this one!) As a founder, who is also a woman, I constantly feel my expertise and ambition are questioned. It’s an age-old thing. 🥱 If you didn’t know: → 1 in 6 women globally intend to start a business → Women-led startups raise just 10% of VC funding in Europe, and 2% in the U.S. → While 15% of tech startup founders are women → Only 4% of tech startup founders in the UK are women → Women occupy only 15% of decision-making roles within European VC firms → In emerging markets, women-led startups receive only 11% of seed funding AND YET, women founders consistently deliver stronger returns, generating 78 cents in revenue per dollar raised (compared to just 31 cents for male-led startups). The data proves what we've always known: backing women founders isn't just fair, it's smart business. ❤️

Yet: 🌀 In 2024, all-women teams raised 4.9% of pre-seed funding, but their share continued to decline at later stages, receiving just 1.7% of funding at Series B and beyond. 🌀 In 2022, 87% of all VC funding in Europe was still raised by men-only founding teams, 1% of all funding raised by women-only teams, and 1.4% of European unicorns were made up of entirely minority ethnic entrepreneurs. 🌀 In 2020, 77% of Black/African/Caribbean respondents to the State of European Tech survey didn’t feel that the European tech ecosystem provides equal opportunities for all. Slush believes that entrepreneurship is the most efficient way to change the world at scale. To do that, we need companies to be built by a diverse set of individuals. After all, people solve problems they themselves face—and each one of us has the potential to transform the future as we know it. We've worked together with deidei to understand key questions: 👉 Are we actually using all of our problem-solving potential? 👉 Are we including everyone needed at the table? Here’s how you can set up the foundations for inclusion development and scale it into the core of your company: https://lnkd.in/d446e5Yp

Are you a female founder leading a tech business that's ready to grow? The Female Founder Accelerator is designed by Barclays Eagle Labs and AccelerateHER to support 100 female founders, who are beyond idea stage and poised for growth. The aim is to bring more women into entrepreneurship and level the playing field. Over nine weeks of masterclasses, you’ll learn about marketing strategies, sales and negotiation, financial management and building a team. Plus, you’ll get access to one-to-one mentoring, accountability groups, in-person community networking, a showcase event and the ability to connect with a community of like-minded female founders. The accelerator is designed for ventures beyond the ‘idea’ stage. This means: - You’ve created or are close to creating your minimal viable product (MVP) - You’re ready to bring your product to market or have already - You have ambitions to scale and raise investment in the next 12 to 18 months - You operate within key technology and innovation sectors. Find out more about the programme and apply here - https://lnkd.in/etqFX-f6

📢 Calling women-led deep tech start-ups📢 Women TechEU is a 2-year EU-funded project supporting women leading deep tech startup companies from Europe. They are investing €12 million in equity-free grants, which will support 160 women-led deep tech companies. Find out more 👇 #DeepTech #WomenInTech #FemaleFounders https://lnkd.in/dxnvSQ6U

Check out this great session next week at #DENStartupWeek! Breaking Barriers will feature female founders sharing their journeys, challenges, and successes in the startup world. Stick around for networking! #Entrepreneurship #Startups #Networking

Can’t wait to see what’s next for the 13 startups in the @GoogleforStartups Accelerator: Women Founders cohort. Learn more about the program and the tech these startups are leveraging with expert support from @Google 👇https://lnkd.in/eNTMKU3u #AcceleratedWithGoogle

In the dynamic world of startups, diversity remains an underutilized but essential resource. Despite progress in entrepreneurial landscapes, startups led by women and minorities continue to face significant disparities in funding. These gaps not only hinder business innovation but also limit potential economic growth. To tap into the true potential of diversity, it's crucial to recognize both the challenges and solutions within the startup ecosystem. The Funding Disparity: A Persistent Barrier Startups led by minorities and women are often subject to systemic barriers in securing venture capital (VC) funding. For instance, Black entrepreneurs receive less than 1% of VC funding in the U.S., with Black women receiving even less, often a mere fraction of that figure. This staggering disparity is a reflection of deep-rooted biases and a lack of representation in decision-making roles across investment firms. Many minority and female founders face challenges such as…. Read full article here(https://shorturl.at/WdwMB)