Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Building Venture-Scalable Businesses
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Building Venture-Scalable Businesses
Join Antler, Albion, Sie Ventures, JV Network, and WVC:E for an afternoon of workshops and discussions with a diverse range of women founders and investors. You will learn how founders have navigated challenges in the early stages of founding, from the pre-launch phase to day zero. Discover the key essentials you need to consider before starting up. If you have just embarked on your entrepreneurial journey or are considering it, this will guide your tech-enabled business to success.
Learn from seasoned venture capitalists such as Eileen Burbidge, Founding Partner at Passion Capital, who will share her perspective on the tech ecosystem in the UK. You will also hear from Susan Lin, Partner at Felix Capital, who will discuss her investment criteria for tech businesses. Additionally, gain insights from venture-backed founders like Nicole Weder and Dimple Patel on practical strategies for achieving product-market fit and effective go-to-market strategies and sales.
Margot de Broglie, co-founder of Your Juno; Lauren Ladd, Co-Founder of Shareback; Jas Schembri-Stothart, Co-Founder of Luna; and Mary Lin, co-CEO of Odin, will join together for a panel discussion on their entrepreneurial journeys. Their backgrounds encompass diverse experiences in technology, engineering, consulting, government, and previous founding endeavours.
Speakers
Eileen Burbidge, Partner at Passion Capital
Susan Lin, Partner at Felix Capital
Nicole Weder, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Accelex
Dimple Patel, CEO at NatureMetrics & Exited Founder
Mary Lin, Co-CEO at Odin
Lauren Ladd, Founder at Shareback
Jas Schembri-Stothart, Co-Founder at luna
Margot de Broglie, Co-Founder of Your Juno
Agenda
13:30 - 13:45 Registration opens
After doors close, latecomers will not be admitted.
14:00-14:05 Welcome Address with Google, Antler, Albion, JV Network, Sie Ventures & WVCE.
14:05-14:20 Investing in Early-Stage Tech VC: Why Now Is the Best Time to Start a Company with Eileen Burbridge, Founding Partner at Passion Capital
14:20-15:05 Workshop #1: Understanding VC-Backable Businesses with Susan Lin, Partner at Felix Capital
15:05-15:15 Networking Break
15:15-16:00 Workshop #2 - Achieving Product-Market Fit with Nicole Weder, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Accelex
16:00-16:15 Networking Break
16:15 - 17:00 Workshop #3 - Go-To-Market & Sales Strategies with Dimple Patel, CEO NatureMetrics, ex-CEO at Trouva
17:00- 17:15 Networking Break
17:15-18:15 Panel Discussion: “Getting Started as a Founder” A panel discussion featuring founders sharing their journey from pre-launch to day zero, navigating early-stage challenges. Sarah Finegan, Director at Antler, will moderate the discussion, inviting panellists to share insights and experiences.
18:15-19:30 Networking & Drinks Reception
Who should attend?
This event welcomes a diverse range of women founders, particularly those contemplating or embarking on their entrepreneurial journey.
If most of these statements apply to you, we'd love to have you join us:
You are currently a CXO or co-founder, or are you planning to become one.
You have prior operational experience in startups or big tech.
You are considering or just started building a tech-enabled startup.
Partners
About Antler
Antler is the world’s day zero investor that inspires, enables, and invests in visionary founders everywhere. Founded on the belief that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, we remove the barriers to entrepreneurship so more people can launch sustainable businesses that solve meaningful problems, drive innovation, and improve lives. We partner with the most early-stage entrepreneurs worldwide through our residencies in 27 cities across six continents — Austin, Berlin, Bangalore, Jakarta, London, New York, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and beyond.
Learn more and Apply Today
www.antler.co/location/uk
About Albion
AlbionVC is an early-stage technology investor on a mission to help entrepreneurs succeed by scaling companies with a UK heart globally. With c. £1bn venture funds, we partner with visionary entrepreneurs building generational companies across B2B software and deeptech. Since our foundation in 1996, the firm has had multiple successful exits to technology giants and four Nasdaq IPOs. As supportive investors at the product market fit stage we provide long-term capital and scale-up expertise. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more visit
About Sie Ventures
Sie Ventures invests in the early stages of diverse founding teams across Europe in fintech, sustainability, and healthcare. Sie Ventures has backed some of Europe's most exceptional female-founded teams and offers support to a community of over 150+ exceptional female founders. Since launching in 2021, Sie Ventures has supported female-led businesses through its Catalyst Programs, Founder Community, and Syndicate, collectively raising close to £100M in capital.
About JV Network
The JV Network was founded in 2021, as a third space for female entrepreneurs and founders to connect with, fund and help each other. The JV is built on three pillars:
Connect informally - We aim to create a true community of female entrepreneurs and investors. This cannot just be done online and therefore our regular in-person mixers have been gaining a lot of popularity.
Learn & share - We organise a range of panel discussions and webinars around topics tailored to founders, angel investors and VCs. Our most recent webinar was about writing micro-angel cheques and how to get started as an angel.
Support & invest - We recently launched the JV30, where each month we match founders and investors that are focusing on or operating in the same stage and sector. In between events and webinars, our community lives on Slack.
You can share your questions, insights, events, and fundraising on our Slack channel, and this is also where we announce our JV30 matches every month.
More information here: www.jvnetwork.co.uk
About WVC:E
Culminating in a 350+ person annual summit in Paris (7th&8th Oct, 2024), WVC:E seeks to develop highly productive networks to increase the success of diverse investors and founders, partly through frequent local and virtual events, supported by a continuous stream of content and resources. The 750+ member WVC:E community includes GPs, LPs, investors, founders, and women working in tech.