Episode 3: Meet Anya Navidski, Founding Partner of Voulez Capital, Europe's First VC for Female Founders

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Episode 3: Meet Anya Navidski, Founding Partner of Voulez Capital, Europe's First VC for Female Founders

In this episode, Anne talks to Anya Navidski, Founder and CEO of Europe’s first VC fund focused on investing in female entrepreneurs - Voulez Capital. Anya share’s why she became a VC, how she created Voulez, what needs to change in the funding industry and how she’s working to bring about that change.

About Anya Navidski:

Anya is the Founding Partner at Voulez Capital – Europe’s First VC fund for female founders – providing Seed and Series A capital for high growth businesses with female founders.  Having started her career with the likes of Goldman Sachs, PwC and NERA, she became an unrepentant entrepreneur, with almost twenty years of experience building businesses in multiple sectors and geographies, from running a £250m renewable energy venture and founding an incubator for social impact businesses, to turning around multiple tech ventures on behalf of investors. ​She has advised a European government on setting up and execution of an innovative “SME Champions” fund, acted as an advisor to JP Morgan in the area of renewable energy and innovative funding instruments and was a Director of the INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship. Anya is an Investor in Residence at Google for Startups, the winner of the Women in Finance “Specialist Investor of the Year 2019” award and has been featured in many publications, including the Financial Times, Techworld and by the BBC.

In today’s episode you will learn:

• How Anya became a VC and why she set up Voulez Capital, Europe’s first VC fund exclusively investing in female founders
• ​How does Anya choose which companies to invest in and what’s the founder mix in her portfolio? What sets them apart from other VC funds?
• What are the key trends in funding today and what needs to change?
• How can we put the fun back into funding
• 1 cool fact about herself
• Her key tips to female founders on the fundraising trail

Resources mentioned in today's episode:

• Dates of next Pitch Clinics held by Voulez Capital - get high quality feedback on your pitch from investors, lawyers and accountants in a friendly atmosphere
• ​Learn more about Voulez Capital’s Fair Venture Principles
• Visit the Voulez Capital website for more information
• Anya's Blog on Medium
• Follow Anya and Voulez on Twitter