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Investing in Deeptech Space Startups - The New Frontier, with Jenna Bryant, Co-Founder & CEO/General Partner, Embedded Ventures
Great VCs and fund managers can come from anyway and Jenna Bryant, a true force of nature is living proof of that. Together with her co-founder Jordan Noone, both from non-traditional backgrounds, they created Embedded Ventures as a next generation VC firm investing in early -stage startups in deeptech and space, that can serve the U.S. Department of Defense. With a degree in fashion design and a passion for dance, she started her career as a tech recruiter, blazing a trail in emerging tech startups, before becoming a venture capitalist and in turn co-founding Embedded Ventures. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a truly wild ride into deeptech and space tech investing, learn more about Embedded Ventures and who they invest in and get key insights into space tech funding, as well as practical key tips for women founders and those who want to get into VC. Ready for Lift Off? You're in the right place.
About Our Guest: Jenna has a very unique story and passion for supporting women in tech as a result of it. Her professional experience can be described as unique and diverse, spanning entertainment, design, deep-tech and venture capital. Learning computer aided design tools during her degree in fashion design led Jenna to a tremendously successful career in tech. It began during the rise of Silicon Beach, when she recruited for the likes of Snap and Tinder, which opened doors to VC. After learning the ropes at another firm she decided to start her own. Throughout the last decade as a tech recruiter turned venture capitalist, Jenna has invested in and helped build some of the most notable early-stage startups in the country. Jenna went on to co-found Embedded Ventures with Jordan Noone. With a mission to empower the bold founders who represent the next generation of deep tech advancement, the firm invests in companies focused on space operations, digital engineering, and advanced manufacturing. To date, Embedded Ventures has announced investments in Akash Systems, Chromatic 3D Materials, Inversion, KittyCAD, Slingshot Aerospace and Skyryse. In 2021, the duo secured a first-of-its-kind multi-year partnership with the United States Space Force for Embedded Ventures enabling the two entities to collaboratively research and develop opportunities promoting U.S. space industry growth to prepare for the future of an expanded space economy and for the defense of U.S. interests. Jenna’s lifelong passion for dance has followed her through each professional endeavor, and she still dances as a creative outlet. Jenna believes that her dual interests in dance and tech challenges the status quo, and embraces the act of pursuing a life and developing a career that is free of restraints. She has become a powerhouse in tech and venture capital – both industries that are historically notorious for their lack of inclusivity – and she’s improving each through her work at Embedded Ventures. She is a strong-minded female-founder who shows how multifaceted, nonlinear career paths serve as assets. Learn more about Jenna on LinkedIn Then biggest opportunities come from cold outreach, because you show ambition and bravery. Using warm introductions only is very limiting and part of the 'old boys' club. Reach out to us directly, we want to hear from you.
About Embedded Ventures:
Launched in 2020, Embedded Ventures is a next generation venture capital firm investing in national security space startups beyond launch. With a thesis that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense, Embedded has a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United States Space Force. Co-Founders Jenna Bryant and Jordan Noone have non-traditional backgrounds and strong passions for the communities they represent. The firm invests in pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds for startups focused in digital engineering, advanced manufacturing, and space operations. To date, Embedded Ventures has announced investments in Akash Systems Inc., Chromatic 3D Materials, Inversion, KittyCAD, Slingshot Aerospace and Skyryse.
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How We Enable Women Business Owners to Compete in the Global Marketplace, with Paulina Dri-Rabell, Market Lead for France, WEConnect International
Did you know that today, only 1% of global corporate procurement goes to women-owned businesses? In 2023? Why is it that so few big corporates buy from women-owned businesses and what can women entrepreneurs do to win key contracts with them? Supply chain diversity is not only a buzzword, it's an imperative, if we are to unlock more global growth and close the global pay and customer gap for women founders. That's where WEConnect International comes in. They are on a mission to drive more money into the hands of women and help them better compete in the global marketplace. In this episode, you'll learn from Paulina Dri-Rabell, Market Lead for France, about how WEConnect helps women-owned businesses get certified and enter the corporate supply chain successfully, all over the world. Learn why this can help more women owned businesses get luctrative corporate contracts, all about the certification process and how access to markets is a key funding and growth strategy for women founders. Paulina also shares her key tips to women founders on how build great relationships with corporates and much more! Get more information about WEConnect and the certification process below.
About our Guest: Paulina Dri-Rabell has over ten years of experience in international development and global partnership management. She has worked to promote international education as a catalyst for change and as a driver for diversity. She has developed and implemented international projects for local and national governments and for public-private entities, such as the International Network of Michelin Cities. She also worked as a National Coordinator in Mexico for EducationUSA, a U.S. State Department public diplomacy program that promotes U.S. higher education to students around the world. Since 2022, she has been working as Market Lead in France for WEConnect International, a global network that connects women-owned businesses to qualified buyers around the world. In this role, she represents the organization in France and is responsible for the outreach efforts to get to more woman-owned businesses with the aim of connecting them and helping them grow. She is passionate about her work at WEConnect and is convinced that supplier diversity is a very important component of economic development and a means of empowerment for diverse communities. Paulina holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington in the United States. She is based in France but is originally from Mexico, where she lived until she was 19 years old before moving to the United States to attend University. Learn more about Paulina on LinkedIn. When working with corporates, make sure what you are delivering is of the highest quality and customer service you can offer. Getting certified as a women-owned business can really help you access more opportunities as corporates want to work with certified businesses and count that spend in their supplier quota.
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How We Raised Over 2M€ Non-Dilutive Capital for a Hardware/Femtech Startup - with Roseanne Longmore, CEO of Coroflo
How do you raise money for a hardware, femtech, medical device that is highly innovative and not yet on the market? How do you get partners like the World Health Organisation to support your work? In this episode, you'll hear from Rosanne Longmore, CEO of Coroflo, a company which has developed and patented the world’s first accurate breastfeeding monitor, Coro. Coroflo have raised €4m investment and have won numerous innovation and technology awards. Coroflo are raising their Series A to launch Coro to the market in 2024.
Learn the behind the scenes story about how Coroflo started, how they pivoted, their funding journey, how to manage prodcut development, research, patenting, funding all in parallel to build a world-class medical device/femtech company. I believe they will become an Irish woman co-founded unicorn so stay tuned! If you are a founder, get lots of great tips on how to raise serious non-dilutive capital. If you are an investor looking for a great opportunity, you should definitely listen to this episode! My investors know that for every euro they give me, I will try and get money. I will sweat that money so hard with grant money, pitch competitions, public money. Investors really like if they know that you're going to work very hard for every euro they give you. They want to see that you're using their money to good use.
Rosanne Longmore is the CEO of Coroflo, a company which has developed and patented the world’s first accurate breastfeeding monitor, Coro. Coroflo have raised €4m investment and have won numerous innovation and technology awards. Coroflo are raising their Series A to launch Coro to the market in 2024.
Prior to Coroflo, Rosanne worked in financial services for 15 years, working across different business units including wealth management and client service operations. Having qualified from the University of Limerick, Rosanne completed further industry qualifications with the Institute of Project Management and the Institute of Bankers. Learn more about Roseanne on Linkedin. In today's episode you'll learn:
Episode 33: How Telling Our Stories Differently Can Change Funding, with
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Episode 32: How You Can Invest In Public Companies Run By Women CEOS with Patricia Lizarraga, Managing Partner, Hypatia Capital
What if you could invest in the change you want to see, by investing in public stocks of companies with women ceos? By investing in what you want to see in the world, breaking barriers and moving the needle forward? Now you can, if you are based in the United States, thanks to Patricia Lizarraga, Managing Partner at Hypatia Capital, who has created the world's first ETF (exchange traded fund) called WCEO. In this episode, you'll learn what's an ETF, how you can use them to diversify your investment portfolio, why they created this ground-breaking solution, and why investing in women leaders, yields higher performance and therefore more money in the bank for you!
Don't worry, you don't have to be a finacial wizard to listen to this episode. Patricia does a great job in explaining why it's important to walk the walk not just talk the talk when it comes to investing to make higher returns and in accordance with your values. I think this WCEO ETF is going to be a game changer for all of us in the future and really hope other countries take example from Patricia and Hypatia Capital. We love people who break the mold. Enjoy this episode and keep reading to learn more and get her contact details below.
Don't worry, you don't have to be a finacial wizard to listen to this episode. Patricia does a great job in explaining why it's important to walk the walk not just talk the talk when it comes to investing to make higher returns and in accordance with your values. I think this WCEO ETF is going to be a game changer for all of us in the future and really hope other countries take example from Patricia and Hypatia Capital. We love people who break the mold. Enjoy this episode and keep reading to learn more and get her contact details below.
There is no reason why your portfolio should not be equal amount of men and women if you believe in equality. Our portfolio is an active reflection of our beliefs and we are hoping that investors join us on this journey towards equality.
Ms. Lizarraga is the managing partner of Hypatia Capital, an asset manager focused on investing in women in leadership since 2007. Hypatia Capital published both the Hypatia Women CEO Index, as well as the Hypatia Women Hedge Fund Index, both measure and promoting female performance in each asset class. Hypatia Capital Management is the issuer of the Hypatia Women CEO ETF, an ETF investing in all American public companies with female CEOs, small to mega cap. Ms. Lizarraga has over 25 years of merchant banking experience, as well as is a founder of several successful companies. Ms. Lizarraga founded the Grupo del Ande in 1997 and is a founding and former Investment Committee member of Sigma SAFI, an asset manager with over $600 million AUM in Peru. Prior to founding Hypatia Capital, she was a Managing Director of Credit Agricole Securities' New York mergers & acquisitions group. She started her merchant banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Ms. Lizarraga serves as an independent board member of Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE:BAP) where she is Chair of the Audit Committee, and former Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, the largest financial services conglomerate in Peru. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest bank in Peru. Ms. Lizarraga also serves as an Independent Trustee of the John Hancock Complex of Funds. She has served as the President of the Privatization Committee of the Toll Roads of Peru. Ms. Lizarraga is a Trustee for the Museum of Art of Lima.
Ms. Lizarraga received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University and her Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Learn more about Patricia on Linkedin.
In today's episode you'll learn:
Click READ MORE below to see how to contact her and the resources mentioned in this episode
Ms. Lizarraga serves as an independent board member of Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE:BAP) where she is Chair of the Audit Committee, and former Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, the largest financial services conglomerate in Peru. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest bank in Peru. Ms. Lizarraga also serves as an Independent Trustee of the John Hancock Complex of Funds. She has served as the President of the Privatization Committee of the Toll Roads of Peru. Ms. Lizarraga is a Trustee for the Museum of Art of Lima.
Ms. Lizarraga received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University and her Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Learn more about Patricia on Linkedin.
In today's episode you'll learn:
- About Patricia and how she decided to create Hypatia Capital asset management firm, investing in and promoting investing in women in leadership
- What's an ETF (exchange traded fund)
- All about the WCEO ETF and how you can now exclusively invest in public companies on the U.S. stock exchange with Women CEOs.
- How isolating 'female leadership and performance' in an ETF will be a GameChanger - learn more about how they do it
- About the Hypatia Women CEO Index
- How investing in companies run by Women CEOs can create outsize returns
- Her key tips on how everyone can start investing in diversity now
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How to raise Funding in Israel and insights into the innovative Israeli startup culture with Roni Eiger, Angel Investor and Technology Scout
Roni Eiger is a very experienced Angel Investor and Technology Scout based in Israel. In this episode you'll learn all about the Israeli culture that influenced the birth of their innovative Startup Nation, the specificities of the Israeli funding scene and about the women angel network in Tel Aviv Roni is part of, investing in great new companies. Above all, come on a journey with a smart, innovative, hard working and focused woman angel investor and mother, who seamlessly navigates the Israeli and Spanish funding and startup ecosystems, helping startups and other partners in each country build bridges with each other. What's fascinating about Roni is that she is both a wealth manager (managing her a single Family Office), angel investor, and serial connector, who happens to be a technology and innovation expert who is passionate about Agrifood and Agritech. You'll love the insights you're about to hear, so dive in!
Concentrate on giving value, whether you're an investor, whether you are creating a company, technology, whether you are connecting people. If you really, truly do what you're good at and bring value to people, then great things will happen.
About our Guest:
I am Roni Eiger. An Israeli who lived many years in Madrid now back in Israel, mother of 4, angel investor, hi-tech veteran, multiple time entrepreneur & manager of a single-family office. I hold a BA in computer science and economics, an MA in economics and an MBA in finance. Growing up in the Israeli hi-tech industry, I have filled every possible position, from software engineer to product manager, marketing, biz-dev, project manager, entrepreneur and M&A.
Everything that has to do with technology and investments excite me, and I love generating creative ideas and solutions to facilitate tech adoption.
Learn more about Roni on Linkedin.
In today's episode you'll learn:
Click Read more below to see how to contact her and the resources mentioned in this episode
I am Roni Eiger. An Israeli who lived many years in Madrid now back in Israel, mother of 4, angel investor, hi-tech veteran, multiple time entrepreneur & manager of a single-family office. I hold a BA in computer science and economics, an MA in economics and an MBA in finance. Growing up in the Israeli hi-tech industry, I have filled every possible position, from software engineer to product manager, marketing, biz-dev, project manager, entrepreneur and M&A.
Everything that has to do with technology and investments excite me, and I love generating creative ideas and solutions to facilitate tech adoption.
Learn more about Roni on Linkedin.
In today's episode you'll learn:
- Who she is and how she decided to become an angel investor in parallel to managing her family's Family Office
- How she invests in startups in Israel and Spain and facilitates partnerships between both countries
- Her insights into the Israeli culture and how that has shaped Israel as a Startup Nation with a thriving funding ecosystem
- About NEOME the key women angel group in Israel she co-invest with
- How the funding ecosystem began in Israel and the different sources of funding available to startups
- Key tips to women entrepreneurs looking for funding
- and her parting message to us all
Click Read more below to see how to contact her and the resources mentioned in this episode
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Accelerating pre-seed pan African Startups with Mope Abudu, Founder & CEO, Knight Ventures Accelerator (Nigeria) and AfriGlocal VC fund
Mope Abudu is Founder and General Partner of Knight Ventures, the Pan Africa Digital Accelerator providing a platform to connect startups, mentors and Investors. Their mission is to develop 100 high-growth tech enabled startups to scale and success and also have a venture fund (AfriGlocal) to financially back those startups. They primarily invest in west Africa, and are key players in the Africa Rising movement, where local Africans take active part in investing in and developing African businesses. She is also founding a $10M venture fund to invest in the pre-seed portfolio companies coming out of her Accelerator. Learn more about her accelerator and fund below.
"Think Bigger and be ready to drive bigger".
About our Guest:
Mope Abudu has over 20 years accounting and management experience working with the United States, UK and Nigeria. Before starting Knight Ventures, Mope had several management and executive positions in Natwest Cards UK, HSBC Rail UK, The Financial Services authority UK, HEIRS Alliance Nigeria and Nextzon Business Services. Mope has a BSc in Sociology from the University of Lagos - Nigeria, and is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a diploma in Computer Programming.
Learn more about Mope on LinkedIn here.
What you'll learn in todays episode:
Click Read more to access her key contact details and resources mentioned in the episode.
"Think Bigger and be ready to drive bigger".
About our Guest:
Mope Abudu has over 20 years accounting and management experience working with the United States, UK and Nigeria. Before starting Knight Ventures, Mope had several management and executive positions in Natwest Cards UK, HSBC Rail UK, The Financial Services authority UK, HEIRS Alliance Nigeria and Nextzon Business Services. Mope has a BSc in Sociology from the University of Lagos - Nigeria, and is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a diploma in Computer Programming.
Learn more about Mope on LinkedIn here.
What you'll learn in todays episode:
- Why she decided to become a VC
- About Knight Ventures Accelerator:
- the accelerator programme
- criteria to join
- tips to founders to have a successful application
- About AfriGlocal VC Fund:
- investment thesis
- fund size
- geographical scope
- The state of funding in Africa at the moment and in NIgeria in Particular
- key trends
- key challenges and opportunities
- what needs to change in the world of funding for women entrepreneurs
- What’s it like for women founders looking for funding?
- How to break into VC as a woman
- Key tips to women founders currently raising funding - do's and don'ts
Click Read more to access her key contact details and resources mentioned in the episode.
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Ep 29. Raising a Pre-seed Funding Round for my AI Startup
Welcome to this latest episode, where you'll hear from Kanwal Bhatia, Founder & CEO of AI startup Metalynx,about how she raised $800K in pre-seed funding. She shares her challenges along the way, how she kept going, what she learned to help her in her future funding rounds and much more! This episode is in partnership with DWEN (Dell Women Entrepreneurs Network) from Dell Technologies.
We agree with Kanwal when she says:
"Enjoy the process, learn from it and faith in yourself that you can do it"
About our Guest:
Kanwal Bhatia is founder & CEO of AI startup Metalynx. She is a Machine Learning researcher specialising in computer vision, deep learning, medical imaging and image/video processing and has authored publications which have gained >1200 citations: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=M1qb-e0AAAAJ&hl=en . She has a PhD in Medical Imaging and a Masters degree in Computing from Imperial College, London. Kanwal is also a champion chess player and was English Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018.
Learn more about Kanwal on LinkedIn here.
What you'll learn in todays episode:
We agree with Kanwal when she says:
"Enjoy the process, learn from it and faith in yourself that you can do it"
About our Guest:
Kanwal Bhatia is founder & CEO of AI startup Metalynx. She is a Machine Learning researcher specialising in computer vision, deep learning, medical imaging and image/video processing and has authored publications which have gained >1200 citations: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=M1qb-e0AAAAJ&hl=en . She has a PhD in Medical Imaging and a Masters degree in Computing from Imperial College, London. Kanwal is also a champion chess player and was English Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018.
Learn more about Kanwal on LinkedIn here.
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Episode 28 (Season 3): How to raise $1M in seed funding and leverage your network during your fundraise, with Valérie Hoffenberg, Founder & CEO, SHe Travel Club
What better to kick off Season 3 of our podcast than by listening to the inspiring story from French serial entrepreneur, Valérie Hoffenberg, about how she raised $1M in seed funding for SHe Travel Club, the new travel tech startup about to take the women travel market by storm. A former diplomat and advisor to a previous President of France, Valérie has built her incredible diverse network over her career. In this episode she also shares tips for female founders on how to leverage your network during your fundraise. Enjoy!
About our Guest:
Learn more about Valérie here.
About our Guest:
- Recognized expert on gender equality
- Co-founder with Marie Claire of the Think tank “Acting for Equality”
- A unique network and access to international women networks and associations
- Speaker on gender equality on global event ( UN, UNESCO, King’s College …)
- Serial entrepreneur
- Founder & President of the Connecting Leaders Club, a global innovation consulting company and event organisation
- Founder & President of SHe Travel Club, global hotel certification to reinvent women’s travel
- Former French diplomat and Representative of Paris
Learn more about Valérie here.
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EPISODE 27: SUPPORTING EMERGING FUND MANAGERS AND FUNDING FOUNDERS IN EMERGING MARKETS, WITH OLGA DUKA, IMPROVE VENTURES
When you listen to Olga Duka, Managing Partner from Improve Ventures, you cannot help but hear her passion for all things funding great founders in emerging markets, and supporting emerging Fund Managers to help diversify the startup funding landscape. This episode will appeal to both investors and founders alike, as Olga explains and explores the challenges and opportunities for both 'emerging' sides of the funding table. Once thing's for sure, you'll walk away full of a new found understanding of both topics and assured she's going to leave a mark on this industry. Enjoy!
About our Guest:
1x founder, 2x co-founder, raised a total of $5M, Investment Funds with AUM up to $60M.
Experience in Talent Development, Investment Funds, EdTech, HR Tech, Fintech, Arts, Creative Industries, and launching new market niches. That's her official bio. Her unofficial bio is, insatiably curious, always learning and applying meta thinking and news ways of looking at things to different industries. Passionate about the worlds of business, music, funding and culture and now Managing partner of new fund Improve Ventures to help fund pre-seed and seed round founders from emerging markets. Also passionate about training the next round of emerging fund managers, and in particular women fund managers.
Learn more about Olga here:
About our Guest:
1x founder, 2x co-founder, raised a total of $5M, Investment Funds with AUM up to $60M.
Experience in Talent Development, Investment Funds, EdTech, HR Tech, Fintech, Arts, Creative Industries, and launching new market niches. That's her official bio. Her unofficial bio is, insatiably curious, always learning and applying meta thinking and news ways of looking at things to different industries. Passionate about the worlds of business, music, funding and culture and now Managing partner of new fund Improve Ventures to help fund pre-seed and seed round founders from emerging markets. Also passionate about training the next round of emerging fund managers, and in particular women fund managers.
Learn more about Olga here:
About
Anne Ravanona
I'm a founder and passionate global women's advocate, on a mission to help get 1M women entrepreneurs funded by 2030. You'll hear from global funding experts (investors and ecosystem players) who make it happen and funded women entrepreneurs. Get fantastic practical funding tips, tactics and insights into the global funding game.
Let's get more women entrepreneurs funded and change the funding game together!
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