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Q&A – Sarah Turner, Angel Academe: ‘Women tend to talk more honestly about their business’

Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
It’s only a few days until the 2019 BAFTAs and I’m heading to the charity’s home in the West End of London.
The café is abuzz with clinking mugs, gently rumbling chatter and the whooshing sound of the steamer on the coffee machine.
I’m meeting Sarah Turner, CEO of Angel Academe, an angel investment network supporting tech businesses with at least one female founder.
She’s sitting next to the window in a high-backed purple chair – I feel as if I’m about to present a pitch to her. As I take the seat opposite, I wonder if she feels the same way.
We’ll be talking about the difficulties that women face both as entrepreneurs and in becoming investors themselves.
Research from the British Business Bank recently found that only 1p out of every £1 of venture capital funding goes to female start-ups. At the current rate, it will take over 25 years for all-female teams to receive 10p for every £1 of venture capital investment. A huge 89pc is going to all-male teams with the remaining 10pc going to mixed gender teams.
Meanwhile, the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) says that a meagre 14pc of the UK’s angel investors

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Funding gap for women entrepreneurs hits £1.3tn

Eighty per cent of women-owned businesses that need credit are under-served worldwide, creating a £1.3 trillion financing gap. What’s more, a study by BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation shows that giving women better access to financial products and services could open up $330 billion in revenues. Care, a global development organisation, works with 5,000

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Lack of role models holding female entrepreneurs back

One in ten UK women now want to set up a business, but a ‘confidence curve’ between the ages of 25-39 could be holding the most likely candidates back, according to new research commissioned by Facebook for its #SheMeansBusiness programme. While one in five women at this life stage say that they’d like to set
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In a Creative Rut? Get Inspired with These Quotes from Famous Female Entrepreneurs

By Deborah Sweeney It happens to the best of us. One minute, you’re hurtling at 60 miles an hour with an endless stream of great ideas for your business, riding a creative high and feeling like there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. Then, out of nowhere, it happens. Somehow, the high trickles down, and you wind […]

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Surge in female entrepreneurs and start-ups narrows ‘enterprise gap’

The UK has witnessed a rapid rise in the number of start-ups in recent years. But the number of new female entrepreneurs in the UK has risen far faster than men in the past decade. New research from Aston University using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) also reveals that there are large disparities
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Inspiring ambition in the female founders of the future

The importance of inspiring more women to become successful entrepreneurs – especially within the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sectors – is no secret. The UK government initially identified the problem in 2003, publishing the country’s first coordinated and collaborative Strategic Framework for Women’s Enterprise. Since then, a mound of examples has surfaced to
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How to tap into funding for female entrepreneurs

This morning, 21st March 2017, The Entrepreneurs Network in partnership with Barclays will launch Untapped Unicorns, a report outlining how Britain can scale up female entrepreneurship. The study, part of The Entrepreneurs Network/Barclays-led Female Founders Forum project, shows that access to funding remains a persistent barrier to female entrepreneurs, yet is essential for enterprise growth.
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Mind the gap – how the odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs

A new international survey highlights how the odds are stacked against female entrepreneurs, with women more likely to start their business much later in life and with less access to funding. These were among the findings from a poll of more than 1,700 entrepreneurs from the US, UK, Europe and Australia by the online graphic
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