Episode 9: Beyond the Billion — How we Mobilized Over $1 Billion for Female Founders, with Shelly Porges

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Beyond the Billion: How We Mobilized Over $1 Billion For Female Founders - Shelly Porges

In 2018, Shelly Porges successfully created a global consortium to build the Billion Dollar Fund for Women - getting investors to pledge over $1 Billion of investment in female founders. Now she's going even further, with her new initiative - Beyond the Billion. In this episode, you'll learn why and how Shelly created Beyond the Billion as a movement and a new way to mobilise key funding stakeholders to truly shift the funding landscape for women entrepreneurs. Get ready to be inspired by this 7 time women entrepreneur, who as a former Senior Advisor, set up the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) at the U.S. State Department, a program she expanded to almost 150 countries, under Secretary Hillary Clinton. Get ready to be inspired!

Learn more about our guest Shelly Porges here.

In today's episode you'll learn:

• Who is Shelly Porges, and why did she set up the Billion Dollar Fund for women and Beyond the Billion?
• How to build a global consortium/movement and get over 80 funds to pledge $1 Billion in a couple of months 
• What were her key challenges in doing so, and how she overcame them
• Key statistics on the realities for women entrepreneurs looking for funding
• Key tips to founders and investors on how to change the funding paradigm and mobilise more money to female founders
• How to target the right funds for your company
• How to put the fun into funding!
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​Resources mentioned in this episode:

• List of Funds who have pledged to invest in women entrepreneurs (incl their websites) - for your investor research!
• Billion Dollar Fund for women
• Billion Dollar Breakfasts
• Cartier Women's Initiative Awards: the global competition by Cartier to help women entrepreneurs grow their business (grants of $100K per global region!)
• Global Invest Her - the go-to platform for women entrepreneurs who want to get funded!
• About her co-founder Sarah Chen and other team members

Female-led startups mentioned in this episode:

• StitchFix - Katrina Lake`
• Save Water Co - Katie Anderson 
• Transplants without donors - Eleni Antoniadou