Female Tech Founder

This month our host Chi-Chi Ekweozor chats to Bhavisha Patel, Co Founder of She Founds, 

She Founds: Our mission is to create successful female entrepreneurs. We do this by providing  a startup community, education, mentoring and tools to develop a growth mindset and empowering women to turn their ideas into reality. shefounds.com 

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, creator of Female Tech Founder and Founder of tech start up Attendist 

This month our host Chi-Chi Ekweozor chats to Sadie Jones Found of She Beasts, a social enterprise based on Birmingham, She Beasts brings women together to empower one another through Movement, Mindset and Nutrition coaching with proceeds from every paid for class directly reinvested into providing sessions for women who have been through traumatic experiences from substance misuse to domestic abuse.

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from June 2022, we hear from Founder of InHouse Health Emma Louise Fusari on the topic of staying healthy in tech, finding balance, avoiding burnout and taking care of your digital wellbeing.

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Attendist - www.attendist.com

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from January 2022, We hear from two female founders and their journeys of building businesses not just through a pandemic but with babies alongside for the ride!.

Laura Pomfret is Co-Founder of Financielle and Mum of two and started the business 18 months ago whilst on maternity leave, starting out just as an Instagram page to share advice, the advice soon grew legs and became a product and along with Co-Founder Holly (also Mum of 2 kids) Laura has been building the business ever since. We also speak to Victoria Bond who having left gone on maternity leave following a long time in corporate life had a ' Life's too short' moment during the pandemic and set up Space HR - with two kids under 5 alongside her she shares her practical tips for committing to your role, creating boundaries, time blocking that diary and why telling yourself there's no Plan B is the best way to keep your business growing. 

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from November 2021, we hear from Jill Pay, Founder of The Gender Index on her business journey so far from property to parliament and launching The Gender Index in 2022. We also hear from Bahar Ansari, US Attorney with practical tips on launching and scaling your business in the USA

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from October 2021, we hear from Emma Ainsworth, Principal Architect at Co-Op who shares her insight into business architecture and how it applies to startups and founders, and why it's about bridging the gap between strategy and execution and translating that strategy into the building blocks or capabilities you need to deliver your vision. 

We also hear our Founder story from Sarah Knight, Founder of Mind The Gap Academy, who shares her business journey spanning 20 years from starting up at 26 weeks pregnant in the wake of redundancy to scaling a business whilst raising kids, evolving the business from PR and Marketing through to the training and development consultancy it is today and her top 7 tips for running a business and keeping your sanity in the process. 

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from September 2021, we’re focusing on the thorny topic of cashflow and hearing from Founder of Hydr Nicola Weedall. Hydr is a tech platform designed to help SMEs receive payment for invoices faster, with 90 day payment terms being the norm for many big businesses it creates a barrier for SMEs which Hydr helps to avoid - they pay your invoice in 24 hours and when the client pays on 90 days that’s paid directly to Hydr all covered by credit protection. Nicola shares the vision behind the business and her own career journey.

We also hear from Becky Baker Founder of K9 Nation an app that brings dog lovers, products and services and other organisations together, having starting bootstrapping the organisation five years ago, a life-changing event prompted Becky to take the dog by the leash and make her dream reality. She shares insight into finding funding, why you don’t have to know everything and why you should never let perfect get in the way of good.

Female Tech Founder was developed and is hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from June 2021 we tackle the topics of confidence, data and why wellbeing is crucial to your career or business growth. 

We hear from CEO/Co-Founder of Tech Returners, Founder of The Confidence Community and Northern Power Women Transformational Leader - Beckie Taylor on her own confidence journey, reframing imposter syndrome and why she's flying the flag for developing female confidence with ' The Confidence Collective Programme. 

We also hear from Rosi Bremec on using data as a lever for growth in our startups and why having clarity on what your customers and product is doing and how it is performing is crucial to developing great teams who are happy and fulfilled - and why lack of clarity is often the reason people leave roles. 

Female Tech Founder was developed by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty and is hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano Director of Lurig Ltd

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from May 2021 we hear from Dr. Terri Bourne, Author. Researcher and Business Owner, on how she’s built up, scaled back and pivoted throughout her career how she’s learned to become an businesswoman rather than a collector and why although she’s ’retired’ she’s restless for what’s next!

We also hear from Jenny Millar, Founder of UnTapped - a business which helps early stage founders create their pricing strategy, with a previous career in data analytics Jenni explains why it’s crucial to find those London bus moments to add sparkle to what we offer to our clients.

Hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty and Claire-Marie Boggiano Director of Lurig Ltd

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from April 2021, we’re teaming up with the team from NatWest Accelerator to talk about Pitching!

First up we hear from Heather Waters, Regional Enterprise Manager North West and Adam Clayton, Local Enterprise Manager about the opportunities available on the NatWest Accelerator programme before a 30-minute pitching workshop with Nick McAfferty, Enterprise Accelerator Manager.

We pick up tips for the perfect 60-second pitch plus one of our community bites the bullet and does their own 60-second pitch for a brand new product live as part of our session!

Hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty and Claire-Marie Boggiano Director of Lurig Ltd

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from March 2021, We're talking about pricing, getting the cost right for your product and how to successfully crowdfund for your business 

First up we hear from Lisa Chee MBE, founder, Startup Coach. Lisa and her sister famously won TV chef Gordon Ramsay's F Word cookery competition placing Sweet Mandarin, the restaurant inspired by her grandmother firmly in the Top 100, she is also a Times Bestseller. 

Also joining us is Hannah Forbes, Founder of The Funding Crowd sharing her tips on successful crowdfunding and blowing some misconceptions about this non-traditional funding method. 

Hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty and Claire-Marie Boggiano Director of Lurig Ltd

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from February 2021, we're coming together for a massive virtual hug, it's the second month of the third UK wide lockdown and we're here to share the love. 

We hear from a panel including Charlotte Ashton, Head of Business Development at Palatine Private Equity,  Patricia Gestoso, Head of Customer Success, Equity Advocate and author of the Life In Lockdown Report on how they've been finding lockdown life and work and how businesses need to change to become more inclusive of the differing needs of their employees and teams. 

And finally, we heard from Ngozi Weller, CEO of Aurora Wellness sharing her journey through aspirations at the UN, to corporate life, mental health impacts and the genesis of her business today.  

Hosted by Chi-Chi Ekweozor, Founder of Assenty and Claire-Marie Boggiano Director of Lurig Ltd

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from December 2020 as we look back on a year of unprecedented change and challenges and share our 2020 learning curves.

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from September 2020, we hear helpful and timely advice on conducting a fundraise during a global pandemic to astute observations for keeping a remote team together and pulling in the same direction, 

In this edition of Female Tech Founder from July 2020, we’re talking about accessing funding for your business and hearing from business founders about their very different journeys and how being a business owner works for them. 

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