Episode 8: Female-led Companies and the Rise of Female Management Teams, with Imma Martinez

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Female-led Companies: The Rise of Female Management Teams

​Women are behind some of the most crucial roles in emerging companies, even when these companies were founded by all-male teams. The weight of vital growth areas such as client sales, marketing, customer services and other strategic areas are entrusted to females and some VCs are beginning to back the new diverse and inclusive fabric of entrepreneurship. Could this be the catalyst for more female-founded business in the 2020 decade?

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In today’s episode you will learn:

• ​France is changing its rules on stock options. Ahead of the upcoming World Economic Forum, the new changes will help attract employees to startups, and hopefully, allow France to rival the UK and Silicon Valley in attracting talent.
  
• More than 20 European VC firms – including Earlybird, Project A, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Cherry Ventures – have joined forces to develop a sustainability clause, which commits all newly funded startups to take part in additional climate protection initiatives going forward.
  
• The EU has been extremely active this January. First it announced a partnership with the European Investment Bank Group, announcing €200 million of investments into the EU space sector
  
• European regulators got their fines little black book and accounted for a total  imposed 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines for data breaches since tougher privacy rules came into force in mid-2018. (Reuters)
  
  

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Ubeya - Israeli startup where women are crushing it!
  https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ubeya#section-overview. Over half the management team are females: https://www.linkedin.com/company/contacit/people/
  

• Felix Capital, the London-based VC focused on tech that assists creativity, community and lifestyle, has raised $300 million for its third fund. The firm also announced three senior appointments to its management and advisory board.
   A super diverse and inclusive firm with half of the investment principals are women. Review the team http://www.felixcap.com/team
  
  

Female led startups in their portfolio

• ANINE BING - FASHION
• FRICHTI – food: Co-founders Quentin Vacher and Julia Bijaoui https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabijaoui/?locale=en_US, Laura Lasry – Strategy and Ops https://www.crunchbase.com/person/laura-lasry
• GOOP
• Job today
• CO-FOUNDER Polina Montano https://www.crunchbase.com/person/polina-montano#section-overview COO
• MANUAL.CO: Two male co-founders but head of growth is a woman
  • https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/manual-b7ab#section-competitors-revenue-by-owler Ira Krachanovskaya
• MEJIRUI INC. about mental health (USA)
• Noura Shakkijha 
  
  • https://www.girlboss.com/wellness/vulnerability-leadership-for-small-business-owners
  • https://www.glamour.com/story/fundraising-while-pregnant-mejuri
•  PEANUT – connecting women across fertility
  • Peanut is a 2017 London startup founded by ex-Badoo deputy CEO Michelle Kennedy and Deliveroo co-founder and former CTO Greg Orlowski.
  • https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/peanut-app-michelle-kennedy-motherhood-loneliness-a3879326.html
• SHINE 
• Naomi Hirabashi and Mar Lidey
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2018/05/31/how-shines-founders-built-a-self-care-platform-with-2m-subscribers/#4e4496712331
• UNMADE: X2 guys and x1 gal
  • https://www.eu-startups.com/2019/07/london-based-fashion-tech-startup-unmade-raises-e5-3-million-to-scale-its-customizable-clothing-platform/
  • Founded by Hal Watts, Kirsty Emery-Laws and Ben Alun-Jones, Unmade was started with the mission to reimagine both the design and manufacturing processes within the fashion industry, so brands only make what is actually sold, in support of a sustainable, ethical economy.
  •  Kirsty Emery-Laws – co-founder and Chief Customer Success https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-emery-laws-84444417/?originalSubdomain=uk

 

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