Tagged: female entrepreneurs

January 29, 2020 @ 8:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Royal Bank of Scotland recently announced its new £1 billion in funding through NatWest to support female entrepreneurs in the UK to scale and grow. The banking group revealed it is setting a target to support and inspire 500K people to consider starting a business,… Read More

January 8, 2020 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been eight years since Accenture’s London-based Fintech Innovation Lab was launched. The innovation lab is now welcoming a new group of 20 Fintech companies, with reportedly a 50% increase in the number of women founders when compared to last year. The Lab has been… Read More

October 8, 2019 @ 2:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kiva, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to connecting people through lending, announced on Monday it has deployed $1 billion in loans to female entrepreneurs around the globe. Kiva reported that its goal is to create a more connected and inclusive financial system that empowers all individuals… Read More

September 19, 2019 @ 2:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Barclay announced on Thursday it has teamed up with global fintech investor Anthemis to co-launch a New York City-based studio targeting female entrepreneurs to establish sustainable, valuable fintech businesses. According to Barclays, the Female Innovators Lab by Barclays and Anthemis is a hands-on program targeting… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AllBright is making plans to a private member’s club exclusively for female founders in London. The club’s debut comes less than a year after AllBright’s crowdfunding platform was launched.  According to WeAreTheCity, AllBright’s new club will be based in a five-story Georgian Townhouse in Bloomsbury. All club… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 2:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a couple months after iFundWomen announced its expansion into Maryland, the City of Boston revealed on Monday it is teaming up with the crowdfunding platform women. As previously reported, iFundWomen is on a mission to help drive funding towards female entrepreneurs and close the gender… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On International Women’s Day, Crowdcube celebrated female entrepreneurs that have previously or currently participated on its equity crowdfunding platform The funding portal stated: “We’ve previously written about how crowdfunding is redressing the balance of traditional finance and this still rings true for 2016 and 2017,… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 4:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AllBright announced on Thursday its online funding platform is now live. The portal revealed all funding would go towards female-led companies throughout the UK.  AllBright also debuted three campaigns for Catherine Gazzoli at Piccolo, Caroline Plumb at Fluidly, and Romanie Thomas at Juggle Jobs. Along with the… Read More

April 29, 2015 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ventureneer, a company  dedicated to online education and peer support for social entrepreneurs, non profit leaders, and small business owners with a social mission, recently released a report that reveals why women entrepreneurs are still significantly behind men when it comes to funding and growing their businesses… Read More