We’re Celebrating Female Founders throughout March and yesterday hosted a Speed Pitch Event featuring 6 of our Female Founder clients presenting their growing businesses and investment opportunities.

Thanks also to Ira Guha for joining us for a Q&A, giving insights into scaling up and successfully fundraising as a founder of her business, Asan Cup.

Here’s a round-up of the featured businesses and the partner contact for more information, including to request an investor deck, arrange to meet the founders or to view a pitch video from the event.

Lowr – Lowering Scope 3 Emissions through unlocking hidden data…starting with sports and live events.

• Sector: Climate Tech/SaaS
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £600k EIS eligible
• Founder/CEO: Chloe Sweden
• PACP Partner Contact: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

Addressing the problem that sports and live events create 350m tonnes of CO2 each year with 60% being untraceable as fans and spectators travel to venues and stadiums.

Lowr enables promoters, sports clubs, venues and landlords to track and unlock previously hidden travel data and reduce emissions, whilst at the same time engaging users and drive revenues with its Scope 3, gamified platform.

By Teddy – Redefining what dog lifestyle means for a new generation of dog owners.

• Sector: Consumer/Pet
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £300k SEIS eligible
• Co-Founder: Delphi Reid
• PACP Partner Contact: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

A new generation of dog owners has arrived, with 36% of UK households now owning a dog. But existing solutions are not cutting it when it comes to their new elevated and premium customer expectations in terms of quality, style, fashion and lifestyle.

By Teddy is already selling online to over 30 countries and proving a market fit in a global £200 billion sector.

Eco Rascals – Designing eco conscious, plastic free essentials for growing families.

• Sector: Consumer
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £250k EIS eligible
• Co-Founders: Celeidh Cook & Kristina Williams
• PACP Partner Contact: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

On average, humans consume 5gms of plastic every week – the size of a credit card! Children face even greater risks as microplastic consumption leads to a whole range of poor health outcomes.

Eco Rascals addresses the problem, designing eco conscious, plastic free essentials for growing families using 100% organic bamboo which is grown and harvested without the use of pesticide, is naturally organic, biodegradable and compostable. It’s BPA fee, lead free and melamine free.

Blend – Where TikTok meets workplace training for the next generation of deskless workers across retail, hospitality, care and many more.

• Sector: Future of Work
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £300k EIS eligible
• Founders: Jules Smith, Helen Sydorenko, Jonah Werth
• PACP Partner Contact: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

The Frontline Learning Market is estimated to be valued at $73 billion and the UK hospitality market alone employs 3.3 million deskless workers. Initially supported by Antler, Blend also have leading impact fund MazeX already committed to this round.

Customers and an existing £150k ARR include fast growing QSR and Casula Dining chains SushiDog, Brother Markus, Jenki and Urban Greens.

Kidsie – Re-commerce and outlet marketplace for the Children’s Goods Sector.

• Sector: Sustainable Consumer
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £250k SEIS eligible
• Founder: Jennifer Mathison
• PACP Partner Contact: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

Kidsie are solving the problem of retail returns, unsold inventory and waste in the children’s sector. Working directly and exclusively with brands and retailers, providing a green, circular channel for them with x2-3 better ROI than alternatives and a quicker and simpler process.

Proven market fit with £120k ARR and a £2.5m pipeline with retailers including Baby Bjorn and Tesco.

Qmunity – Building the future of enterprise customer retention by empowering brands to understand, engage and monetise customers like never before.

• Sector: AI/B2B Tech/SaaS Platform
• Stage: Early-Growth
• Raise: £1.2m
• Founder: Julia Vendramin
• PACP Partner Contact: hanim@pa-capitalpartners.com

Qmunity is an AaaS (Agent-as-a-Sevice) platform that unites multiple AI agents into an ecosystem of services, helping brands enhance customer retention.

Delivering personalised engagement strategies that boost lifetime value and drive revenue growth. With acquisition costs soaring (+222% CAC in 5 years) and brands losing $1.6T annually due to weak retention mechanisms, Qmunity is changing this by focussing on building brand communities and lasting connections.

A reminder about our upcoming event:

• Online Female Founder Event
• Are You Ready To Scale And Fundraise?
• Wednesday 26th March 2025, 2pm-3pm (UK time)

Featuring a panel of experts giving insights into how to breakthrough, grow and be investor ready.

A great opportunity to learn from sector specialists who have experienced it all first-hand and gain tips and advice on scaling up and fundraising.

Click here to register to attend.