We were thrilled to celebrate and champion Female Founders through a series of events in June, highlighting opportunities and inspirational stories of breaking the glass ceiling with fundraising success.

With only 2% of funds raised in the UK currently going to Female Founded businesses, it remains a challenging environment for talented women who have compelling opportunities that are often overlooked.

At PACP, we are incredibly proud of our track record that bucks the trend – around 30% of our funds raised are for female-founded businesses.

And with statistics that consistently show that companies founded or co-founded by women do better with generating more revenues, creating higher job growth, dreaming bigger and executing better, their investment opportunities offer significant potential.

We highlight the Female Founder Investment Opportunities that featured in our June events below.

Thanks to our Inspirational Panelists

Many thanks to the talented women who participated in our events and gave incredible insights and support through talking about their experiences and advice learnt during their journeys.

Ira Guha, Founder of Asan, was inspirational talking about her fundraising with a social enterprise startup tackling period poverty across the globe.

Nicci Clarke, Founder of RE:NOURISH, gave incredible insights into early-stage funding success and building a multi-million pound category-defining soup brand that continues to expand rapidly and globally to next stage funding.

Sutin Yang, an investor and entrepreneur with two decades of expertise in investments and startups through a career with JP Morgan, Microsoft AI for Good Accelerator and Virgin StartUp, gave insightful, practical advice and feedback to founders.

Laura Harnett, Founder of Seep, was motivational talking about her journey so far with her award-winning eco cleaning tool brand, including early funding success and growth leading to next stage funding.

And thanks also to our PACP Partners for hosting these lively and inspirational events – Hanim Dogan-Jain, Sharon O’Connor and Caroline Liddon.

A Summary Of Female Founder Investment Opportunities

Below is a summary of all the businesses featured throughout June’s events, including the PACP contacts to request an investor deck, view the pitch video or arrange to meet the founder.

IMÒ Interns – A marketplace that matches businesses with remote African graduate interns to provide cost-effective talent and create employment opportunties.

• Stage: Early
• Raise: £350k SEIS/EIS eligible
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: hanim@pa-capitalpartners.com

DSGNLNK – A B2B SaaS solution to revolutionising design in the supply chain, by increasing speed to market, meeting customer demand, beating the competition and reducing waste.

• Stage: Early
• Raise: £500k SEIS eligible
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

For The Creators – An award-winning omnichannel marketplace transforming motherhood for good.

• Stage: Early
• Raise: £800k EIS eligible
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

Rune – A premium plus size clothing brand that has been developed for plus size bodies, shown on plus size bodies and made by a plus size founder.

• Stage: Early
• Raise: £250k SEIS eligible
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com

Brityard – A pioneering retail concept that brings best-of-breed UK consumer brands under one roof. Challenging the norm with a membership based retail model. Currently trading from their flagship site in Regent Street.

• Stage: Growth
• Raise: £500k EIS eligible
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: sharon@pa-capitalpartners.com

AWAN – A smarter, modular and more relevant womenswear wardrobe for a modern, conscious new era.

• Stage: Growth
• Raise: £500k
• Contact for investor deck and pitch video: greg@pa-capitalpartners.com