This roundtable discussion will bring together female founders, investors including angel investors and regional stakeholders to discuss the launch of the Lifted Regional Inclusive Growth Project, harnessing the power of data to increase the number of regional, women-led, growth businesses.
This discussion will create an opportunity to discuss the imbalance of regionally located female-founded high-growth enterprises. There is a significant volume difference between regions with 37 high-growth enterprises all-female or majority-female founded in London, but only one or two in some of the less well-performing regions.
In the regions outside of London, sits untapped potential for ambitious and talented women who could be the founders of high-growth enterprises. However, these women need better access to capital, networks, advice and acceleration, as well as a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and role models to catalyse and support their growth journey.
This session will enable us to discuss how collectively we can drive change, by developing Regional Boards to deliver pathways of support to give better and connected support to high-growth female founders across Birmingham. The board's objectives through direct support to businesses will aim to:
- Increase the number of women-led high-growth enterprises across the regions
- Increase the % of capital invested into Female Founders in the region by 5%
- Increase the number of funds in the region that sign up to the Invest in Women code
- Double the number of visible female founders
- Aim for at least 50% of the current number of female role models
- Identify and activate 5 new initiatives focused on increasing the number of High Growth Female Founded businesses
