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Included VC, the fellowship dedicated to building diversity across the venture capital landscape, has revealed that 76% of its fellows currently searching for jobs have now secured opportunities. That’s almost half of the total number of fellows signed up to the nine-month programme.
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Abby Wallace
23.09.2021
Founders from underrepresented backgrounds do not have access to typical tech networks, and struggle to raise money from traditional routes, including VCs. Now, Life+ Collective hopes to help founders overcome the funding barriers standing in the way of their businesses and ideas through the launch of its new grant programme.
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Maddyness UK
16.07.2021
Future VC, an internship programme launched by Diversity VC, has launched in the United States. On the same day the US programme was launched, Future VC’s third cohort in the UK was announced. The newest group to participate is its most diverse yet.
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Abby Wallace
24.06.2021
The UK tech sector is growing fast, but a representation and investment gap remains for minority groups. Tech Nation is hoping to combat unequal representation in UK tech with its Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit.
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Abby Wallace
18.06.2021
Talking bespoke hair analysis, how food can impact hair health, and perfecting customer research with the CEO of That Good Hair.
02.06.2021
Talking the benefits of green action, training teachers in climate literacy, and working with Europe's leading tech-for-good investor with the founder of EcoSpot.
26.05.2021
Caroline Franczia is a regular columnist for Maddyness, she usually provides entrepreneurial advice mixed with Pop culture. Supported by the incredible Thelma and Louise here she opens up about her experiences of being a woman in the tech industry, working for American corporations and scaleups.
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Caroline Franczia
21.05.2021
Talking educational inequality, psychometrics and founding a startup while at university with the team behind Edicat Learning.
19.05.2021
Rosa Lina Swaby is a Data & Analytics PM at Microsoft for the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team. She recently joined Microsoft and before that she was working as a front-end engineer at American Express on the Customer HomePage team for around 2 years. She is currently based in NYC and is a 2018 NYU Computer Science Graduate. When she is not working, she loves to cook and find new rom-coms to watch.
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Rosa Lina Swaby
05.05.2021
Playfair Capital, Tech Nation & Google for Startups are collaborating to deliver a Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours event on 6th May. This fifth Female Founder Office Hours event will be the largest yet, with over 250 women founders and 90 VCs from some of the world’s leading funds.
28.04.2021
Whilst many organisations have pledged to better support minority groups, now is the time for verbal commitments to be converted into tangible action. Here are some tips on building the most inclusive business possible – from Paralympian and inclusion expert, Liz Johnson.
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Liz Johnson
27.04.2021
It is well known that for every £1 of VC funding, female-founded businesses receive just 1p. Worse than that, for the last 20 years only 10% of venture funding has gone towards businesses that even include a woman anywhere in the founding or leadership team. Investors must show more than just good intentions if we're to realise the full potential of female-founded startups.
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Stephen Page
15.04.2021
Like many sectors, concerted efforts have helped improve venture capital’s diversity and that of the startups we invest in. Diversity VC’s ‘Diversity in Venture Capital 2019’ study reported that women now make up 30% of the VC workforce, up from 27% in 2017.
08.04.2021
As we mark the one year anniversary of COVID-19’s dramatic trespass into our existence, many voices are calling for an accounting of the lessons learned. One of the most pivotal lessons we have learned was the disproportionate impact the deadly virus had on Black and ethnic minority communities.
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Patricia Hamzahee
05.04.2021
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