Changing the female founder conversation in fintech
Vivi Friedgut, CEO and founder atBlackbulliondiscusses on International Women's Day, the current investment landscape for female business founders.
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Taking up space: Women and their presence in FinTech
With conversations about diversity, inclusion, and equity within the workplace being top-of-mind for all company leaders, how has the changing face of financial technology and services impacted the women working every day to build in the FinTech ecosystem, and why are there so few?
Join this conversation to explore the disproportionate variance between the number of female-led startups that close funding rounds versus male-led startups, the skills and experience that women generally have to possess in order to succeed in the FinTech space, how self-identifying male FinTech leaders can act to be more inclusive, and more.
Event takeaways:
– To discuss the presence of women in FinTech and their impact thus far
– To discuss how women can support each other in the FinTech industry (e.g. Female Innovators Lab by Barclays and Anthemis, NYC FinTech Women)
– Discuss and dispel stereotypes of women in FinTech and startup environments
– Share experiences of triumphs in leading FinTech-focused companies while remaining a minority
The 2019 Payments Canada SUMMIT – Innovating the way: Women in Fintech
Speakers: Sue Whitney, Payments Canada
Kristy Duncan, Women in Payments
Michele Beyo, Shyft
MOD: Fruzan Nijrabi, FGS
FinTech is positioned right between two historically male-dominated industries: finance & technology. Women are gaining momentum as CEOs and Founders, however, there is still a significant gender gap in these roles. In fact, studies show in Canada that gap is worse in FinTech than in Finance and Technology. The result of research conducted by FinTech Growth Syndicate (FGS) is staggering, only 9% of the FinTechs in Canada have at least one female founder or CEO/C-level executive. Despite these facts, the gender disparity in the Canadian FinTech industry has been closing in recent years. Indeed, the proportion of female to male CEO/C-level or Founders has increased in the last 15 years. FinTech is a relatively new industry with an opportunity to change and disrupt not only the financial sector, but also the diversity of people in the workplace. One of the many ways to close the gender gap is raising awareness about what is happening in FinTech. Join this conversation and hear from the women innovating the way in FinTech.
*Exclusive* Top 100 Woman in Fintech shares the secrets behind creating a successful Fintech Startup
I’m delighted to welcome Dr. Hannah Forbes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-forbes), founder of The Funding Crowd (https://thefundingcrowd.co.uk/) to the channel. It was great to visit her in her Shoreditch WeWork space to talk all things Fintech, entrepreneur, crowd funding, consultancy and how to start your own successful business whilst also working full time.
The Funding Crowd is a Crowd Funding consultancy, helping clients smash their crowd funding goals. EVERY crowd funding campaign she’s launched has been successful, even raising £2M in 2 minutes!
Hannah and I first met in the corporate world of Sky, which is where Hannah started laying the foundations of the business that would sky-rocket her career. She boasts amazing credentials such as Top 100 Women in FinTech, Innovative Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist 2020, Finance Monthly Women in Finance award. As if having a full time job and running her own successful business wasn’t enough, she has also been completing her PhD from University of Liverpool over last 4 years. How did she achieve this? How did she manage to grow this incredible Crowd Funding business without burning out? Watch this video to find out!
Timestamps:
1. Intro: who is Hannah and what is The Funding Crowd? (00:32)
2. How do you balance a full time job, founding a start-up and a PhD? (01:46)
3. What is the work life balance of a FinTech start-up founder really like? (03:12)
4. How did you grow your business to the point you could quit the corporate grind? (05:27)
5. How did you become one of the Top 100 Women in FinTech? (06:32)
6. How did you fit in a PhD as well?! (08:14)
7. What challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them? (09:35)
8. How to keep your mental health in a good place whilst growing a company. (10:08)
9. What are you most proud of? (11:53)
10. What is it like being a woman in FinTech? (13:00)
11. How do you overcome Imposter Syndrome? (14:46)
12. Imposter Syndrome as a super power. (16:45)
13. What’s your one piece of advice on growing your own business? (17:05)
Twitter:
@thefundingcrowd: https://twitter.com/thefundingcrowd?s=21
@hannahsforbes: https://twitter.com/hannahsforbes?s=21
FMLS22 | Cultivating Female Leadership in Fintech: Challenges & Opportunities
Despite having a progressive agenda, the fintech sector still has a largely male workforce, with only 4% of funding going to start-ups with female CEOs. In this session, we look at how this reality affects women’s career opportunities and experiences in fintech, as well as structural changes the sector can make to become more diverse for its own sake.
SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Rayment
Director
YMM
Lissele Pratt
COO & Co-founder
Capitalixe
Tamara Kostova
CEO
Velexa
Janthana Kaenprakhamroy
CEO & Founder
Tapoly
Sophie Gerber
Co-CEO | Director
TRAction Fintech | Sophie Grace
Sonya Barlow
CEO & Founder
LMF Network