IWD Breakfast | Female Founders' Path to Success
Novabook & Hotbed are celebrating International Women's Day with a deep-dive breakfast panel featuring successful female founders.
What to expect
The discussion will explore key topics on the path to success, including fundraising, scaling, overcoming challenges unique to female founders, and achieving personal and professional growth while balancing priorities.
This event offers a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals, enjoy a delicious breakfast, and engage in a dynamic Q&A with our expert panelists.
Agenda
9am: Welcome breakfast & networking
9:30am: Panel discussion
10:15am: Audience Q&A
11am: Wrap up & networking
Our panel
Siddhi Mittal - Co-Founder & CEO of YHangry, a platform that’s revolutionising private dining. Launched in 2019 as a side hustle initially, after a pivot during covid, YHangry successfully pitched in Dragons Den in late 2020, which was followed by a £1.1m fundraise from Investors including Carmen Rico (Blossom Capital), Eileen Burbidge (Passion Capital), Antler, Index, Jack Tang, Deepali Nangia (Alma Angels) and more. In 2022, YHangry then became a YC startup and raised $3m. In 2024, YHangry raised ~$1m in <2weeks in a private round, and launched a crowdfund which was oversubscribed by its second day.
Tugce Bulut - Co-Founder of Streetbees and Luna. Streetbees has over 3.5m users, across 189 countries who share moments from their daily lives via videos, photos and text, giving as much or as little information as they like, creating insights which gets provided to organisations. Streetbees is backed by some of the planet’s most renowned investors and entrepreneurs and in October 2020 closed a £30m Series B round led by Lakestar, to accelerate the development of the world’s first human intelligence platform. Tugce stepped down from her day-to-day role at Streetbees in 2024 to focus on Luna, which uses AI & relationship science to deeply understand what you’re looking for & support you to find a meaningful relationship with the right person.
Moderator: M Coyle - Co-Founder & CEO of Hotbed. Originally from the US and now London-based, M co-founded her first company, Spice Startups, the day after finishing her final exams at university. Having 6+ years of experience in the London startup ecosystem, she co-founded Hotbed in 2022 to shape the future of early stage startup building and funding. Hotbed's on a mission to become the largest source of deal flow for angel investors worldwide, and has since supported 700+ founders across 40+ countries.
Your hosts
Novabook is the accountant for startups. We handle your books, payroll and taxes, and help founders get their accounting done right from the start. We’re a team of tech operators and finance experts with the goal to add more than just tax compliance to the startups we work with. We aim to share our learnings from having built and sold a startup back in 2022, which we scaled to over 12 million users. This event is part of our commitment to help founders succeed.
Hotbed is the home for builders who build, and funders who fund. We run accelerator programmes, events and more for the startup ecosystem. Check out hotbed.co for more details and to get involved.
How to apply
To register for this event, please sign up through the link provided. To ensure a carefully curated room of like-minded individuals with a shared purpose, attendance will be subject to an approval process.
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