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Tuesday 17
Evening
Funding success: the female
entrepreneur
Businesses launched by female entrepreneurs
generate higher revenues and create more jobs
than those launched by their male counterparts,
evidence has shown.
Despite this, female entrepreneurs receive a fraction of the funding
available to start-up businesses. In 2017, for every £1 of venture capital
investment in entrepreneurs in the UK, all-male founding teams received
89p whereas all-female teams received less than 1p. The panel will
explore why female founders continue to face barriers to funding and
what is being done to address this. Drawing on their experience and on
recent industry success stories, the panel will consider how to widen
funding opportunities for women and why funders who do so stand to
reap significant returns.
Moderator
Anne-Marie Piper
Senior Partner at Farrer & Co
Anne-Marie is one of the UK’s foremost
experts in charity law and is the firm‘s senior
partner. She has a formidable reputation
for her work on complex mergers and
regulatory cases. She is renowned for her
expertise in resolving complex issues for
large organisations, particularly fundraising,
major mergers, re-organisations and group
structures, and administrations.
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