Fundraising Stories with Female Founders
75 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInspirational interviews with female founders sharing their honest stories on raising investment – the highs, the lows, the challenges… and top tips for how to be successful.
Fundraising Stories is hosted by Julia Elliott Brown, CEO and Founder of Enter The Arena, serial entrepreneur and equity fundraising expert.
Enter The Arena is the organisation for female founders, providing investment expertise and business coaching. Enter The Arena empowers female founders to fly through pre-raise and investment, and on to the exponential growth of their business. Our firsthand experience, expert guidance and proven programmes help female founders unleash the wonder woman inside.
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Nicola Piercy, Stripe and Stare - Securing investment for sustainable knickers
January 12, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBJoin Julia Elliott Brown, Founder & CEO of Enter the Arena as she sits down with Nicola Piercy, the Founder of Stripe and Stare, the world's most comfortable knickers sustainably sourced from trees. Nicola shares her life as a serial entrepreneur, from founding Stripe and Stare with co-founder Katie Lopes to getting £3.6million in investment. Whilst gaining angel investment, Nicola experienced a devastating personal loss—her husband's unexpected passing. Despite the immense grief, Nicola pe...
Lisa Eaton, Fabric Academy - The Power of Advisors
November 03, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBBeing new to the world of investment, Lisa mapped out local experts in the North East of England that could fill certain knowledge gaps. It was after discovering who could add value to the business that she “accidentally” found her Angel investors and went on to successfully close her round with £225K of funding. Listen to Lisa’s investment journey to find out what she learned along the way and her tips that might help you with your own fundraising endeavours. In this episode, you’ll disco...
Rebekah Brown, MPowder - Raising Money for Menopause
October 06, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBLike many women starting businesses, the motivation for Rebekah Brown’s entrepreneurship, MPowder, was in response to her own experiences and spotting a gap in the market. She was struggling with a multitude of symptoms during perimenopause and felt there was barely any information on how to deal with it. Since then, Rebekah has listened to the stories of many women to understand midlife better, launching several supplements to help enhance the stages of menopause. Rebekah credits the co-cr...
Polly McMaster, The Fold - Don’t Fold under pressure
September 08, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBBeing an entrepreneur is an incredibly turbulent journey. Polly McMaster is the founder of modern luxury workwear brand, The Fold, and she’s been experiencing the highs and lows since 2011. As Polly says in this episode, “that's something you have to have your eyes wide open to, when you go into it”. So how did Polly approach her fundraising strategy and stay sane throughout the process? All is revealed as she talks to our founder and CEO Julia Elliott Brown about her experiences. In this ...
Sheila Hogan, Biscuit Tin - Raising For DeathTech
July 07, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBBiscuit Tin won the COVID response competition from Innovate UK, being one of 800 out of thousands of applications which gave the business runway through the pandemic. With no marketing budget, Sheila used partnerships to get the business to market and has been on Dragon’s Den which has certainly helped with PR and awareness. She used the media opportunity to cleverly run the true investment campaign in parallel and raised from a mix of angels and VCs. Since then, Sheila’s been on a rollerc...
Cindy Gallop, MakeLoveNotPorn - Funding a real sex website
June 02, 2023 06:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBNo investors wanted to “touch the business with a barge pole” fourteen years ago, when the company was started by Cindy, due to fear of being associated with SexTech. However, Cindy saw an opportunity in the market. She feels sex is essentially a recession-proof industry and the niche of “socially acceptable” sex, which normalises it and allows people to publicly share sex and advocate for this is needed in society. Cindy managed to get one private angel investor to invest $3 million. Thing...
Katy Cottam, Luna Daily - Funds, vulvas, knees and toes
May 05, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBKaty secured a pre-seed funding round from several angel investors. She remembers hearing from multiple people “That's not possible" and is really glad she didn't listen to that advice and instead pushed to get on board the right angel partners that fully believed in the vision. The relationships Katy has built have been fundamental to the success of the business - with the next round of investment of £2 million propelling them to new heights alongside stock financing of £1 million. While s...
Katy Cottam, Lunar Daily - Funds, vulvas, knees and toes
May 05, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBKaty secured a pre-seed funding round from several angel investors. She remembers hearing from multiple people “That's not possible" and is really glad she didn't listen to that advice and instead pushed to get on board the right angel partners that fully believed in the vision. The relationships Katy has built have been fundamental to the success of the business - with the next round of investment of £2 million propelling them to new heights alongside stock financing of £1 million. While s...
Vivi Cahyadi Himmel, AltoVita - Investor herd mentality
April 07, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBAs digital nomads, Vivi and her co-founder had the ambitious goal of building a global empire. With Vivi being from an investment banking background, she had some financial skills, but starting a business was a whole new challenge. It’s why being humble is core to the culture of the business now, and not knowing everything is okay. The co-founders started with £60K to bootstrap their company which allowed them to launch a website, start marketing and recruit internal developers. Then they s...
Lucy Hall, LOANHOOD - Failed your investment round? Go again
March 03, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBLucy started raising for Loanhood by building a rewards-based Crowdfunder and receiving a grant from NatWest. This helped establish the brand’s community and opened their eyes to the crowdfunding ecosystem. After some questionable advice, they tried to raise £400,000 from VCs who, from the get-go, said, "No, you're not ready for this. You haven't got any traction”. The founders also wanted to crowdfund via Seedrs as the business has a a major community aspect, so it made sense to go this rou...
Stamena Dimitrova, Refillable - Think big to win the investment game
February 03, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBStamena’s co-founder is her daughter, which occasionally means sparks with their differing yet complementary approaches to business. The first thing they did was research the market, to validate their idea and strengthen the vision. Then they found a shop to rent and purchased stock but just before the agreement signing, the owner pulled out. At this point, they were bootstrapping and got a small startup loan from the British Business Bank. As many founders do, Stamena underestimated how muc...
Linda Wade, Spinview - Spinning funding plates
January 06, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBLinda had no experience in raising investment before starting the company, but luckily, her manager at Microsoft become Spinview’s chairman and championed the business, which helped elevate Linda. He advised her on how to go about doing a pitch deck, standing in front of an investor, and what kind of things they were looking for. This valuable support she received made a huge impact on the success of the initial investment round. Linda has been spinning many funding plates with a mix of gra...
Vineeta Tripathi, Vitarka Therapeutics - From scientist to CEO
December 09, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBVineeta founded the company in 2021 after 15 years in drug development in major pharmaceutical companies and is a co-inventor on 13 granted patents and 4 filed patents. Biotech start-ups like Vitarka Therapeutics need funds for research and development from the get go and Discovery Park Ventures invested £150,000 as part of a seed round. More recently, Vineeta raised over 500,000 dollars of investment through the IndieBio New York Program as the only UK firm in the cohort.
Abbie Miranda, Beija London - Explaining bras to investors
November 18, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBAbbie launched the business in 2016 with her co-founder and sister Maizie, with Abbie managing design and Mazie heading up the brand. The sisters grew up in a family lingerie manufacturing business with their mum as a successful entrepreneur which was understandably inspiring. However, with the family’s successes came some pressure for Beija to be profitable and get to a good place - fast. Beija is now an independent company with over 30,000 customers and an incredible rate of repeat purchas...
Gabi Jennings, Love Ocean - Facing your fundraising fears
October 07, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWhen Gabi overcame her fear of the ocean, a love of the ocean emerged, so the inspiration behind the brand was born. Being out of your depth is a common part of entrepreneurship! By taking a different approach to developing a product, and beginning with storytelling, Love Ocean differentiated itself in the kids’ bath product market. Gabi has raised over £600K from a mix of crowdfunding and friends and family. She found the complex financials needed for investors daunting so brought on fina...
Alexandra Pluthero, Freedom Underwear - Challenges Of Funding A Non Tech Business
September 09, 2022 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBAlexandra needed investment early on to launch, buy stock and begin marketing. Interest from family and friends led to her first round of £50K. Freedom Underwear launched in 2020 and Alexandra went for a second raise 6 months later. She realised the responsibilities as founder change as soon as you’ve launched from making bras… to finance, ops, and everything in between. Finding investors to commit to her second raise was a challenge, and finding female investors was especially hard. Alexan...
Farah Kabir, HANX - Funding for condoms
August 05, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThey both felt strongly that the current offering isn’t fit for purpose and wanted to create sexual wellness products to address the problem. They went about starting the passion project with thorough market research and surveyed 2,000 women on sexual health and buying habits. Funding the business as two female entrepreneurs and Farah being from a Bangladeshi Muslim background, came with an array of challenges, naysayers and inappropriate comments from “old school” male investors. While the...
Nicole Smith, Flytographer - Accidental entrepreneurship
July 08, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBBefore starting up Flytographer, Nicole was happy in her global marketing job at Microsoft, but had the idea and simply couldn't shake it. What started as a side hustle has grown into a global business, selling over $20 million in photo shoots and capturing millions of priceless memories. There was an inflection point for Nicole when she needed to make a decision - to take the leap from side hustle to giving it everything. She asked herself, “what would my 85-year-old self say about this si...
Gayle Harrison, Untagged - Baptism of Fire
June 10, 2022 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBShe started her fundraising journey with a friends and family round, which she found difficult, conceding, “it was horrible asking for money”. Gayle was repeatedly told by investors that she wouldn’t get investment as a single female founder and needed a co-founder. Since then, she realised through a “baptism of fire” that this isn’t true. Gayle is fully capable of succeeding and taking the sustainable fashion world by storm with Untagged. In this episode you’ll discover: Why confidence r...
Tersha Willis, terrible* - Is it a pitch or is it a date?
May 06, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBSince 2017, terrible* has worked with 500+ creators, who’ve used their data and technology to manage their entire merchandise supply chain, helping them generate five times more revenue and 50% more profit than they would anywhere else. As a female founder, Tersha experienced every single fundraising horror story: being asked out on dates by investors, constantly interrupted and undermined mid-pitch, and told she didn’t have what it takes to succeed. With all that being said, Tersha has le...
Yang Liu, JustWear - Every No is a step closer to Yes
April 01, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBYang previously worked for a VC fund and realised as an entrepreneur, the tables were now turned. Seeking VC investment was the plan after a successful Kickstarter campaign landing JustWears £150,000. But, without ‘enough traction’, VCs just weren’t ready to invest. In hindsight, Angels were the better route as their expertise and passion for supporting entrepreneurs made Yang grateful to have gone down this path. Since then, Yang has turned down Dragon’s Den investment and closed a huge £2...
Krisi Smith, Bird & Blend Tea - The ideal blend: financials & storytelling
March 31, 2022 21:51 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThey now have a team of over one hundred staff, 15 retail stores and a thriving international online business. Krisi always dreamt of having a direct to consumer model and brick and mortar stores and vehemently believes it's all about building the business you truly want. Even if that means turning down lucrative wholesale deals from supermarkets like they did. Krisi has learnt a thing or two about successful crowdfunding. During their first campaign, Bird & Blend was overfunded in just 24 ...
Priya Downes, Nudea - The value of an advisory board
March 03, 2022 18:59 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBPriya Downes is the Founder of Nudea, a sustainable underwear brand creating beautiful designs focussed on fit, comfort and looking great. The digital-first brand has grown exponentially since it started in 2019, acquiring over 15,000 customers and generating half a million pounds in revenue in the process. Priya has raised £750K so far from angel investors after self-funding to launch the brand and get it off the ground during the pandemic. By researching and mapping out investment deals i...
Claire Copeman, Adventure Tours UK - Not just any money
January 07, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBAdventure Tours UK was initially self-funded whilst Claire focused on building the brand through partnerships and PR trips that told a story and made it clear they were “going places”. With immense support from a business mentor, they went out and successfully found investors who really understand their goal to firmly stamp the UK onto the adventure travel map. Then, Covid hit in 2020 and travel was cancelled. Amazingly, the investment didn’t fall through because they had the right investor...
Martha Keith, Martha Brook - Communication is the secret weapon
December 03, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBMartha started the brand on a shoestring budget and grew it to 7 figures with no external investment. She recently raised £220,000 through crowdfunding for the first time. With an amazing community behind the brand, they were fully funded in just two days with no lead Angel investor money. Incredible! Seeking investment is no longer something that makes Martha feel daunted and she’s excited to do it again in the future. We love to see it! But looking back, could or should Martha have consid...
Virginia Gardiner, Loowatt - When the VC money falls through
November 05, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBVirginia Gardiner is the founder, CEO and inventor of Loowatt, a waterless toilet addressing the fact that 40% of the world doesn’t have a toilet, and the rest of us are using solutions that aren’t sustainable. Virginia has been on quite a journey. She started the business as an engineering and humanities graduate with three male co-founders who came from experienced corporate backgrounds, and who are now ex-co-founders. Loowatt received initial investment via innovation grants, angels and ...
Kike Oniwinde, BYP Network - Valuing your true growth potential
October 01, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBKike Oniwinde is a Forbes 30 under 30, World Economic Forum Shaper, and has won three national pitch competitions. Kike has been a high achiever since she was raised in East London, throwing the Javelin for GB whilst crushing her grades. In 2020, she raised £900,000 through crowdfunding for her business, BYP Network, a platform that empowers and connects black professionals to each other and to corporations. As a black female founder, Kike’s achievements haven’t come easy though, and she e...
Tiffany Kelly, Beyond Bamboo - Funding a passion-based business
September 03, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Tiffany Kelly, the founder of Beyond Bamboo. Tiffany has always been deeply passionate about the environment. She saw an opportunity for an online marketplace where consumers and businesses can source ethical and sustainable goods. This includes upcycled, restored and recycled as well as new products. Over two years in the making, Tiffany quickly realised that in order to grow, it was time to develop new technolo...
Kim Palmer, Clementine - Knowing when to bring in expert help
August 06, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Kim Palmer, founder of Clementine. Amidst a sudden onset of panic attacks at work, Kim Palmer discovered the power of hypnotherapy as a game changer for staying calm. As a passive option for busy brains, hypnotherapy provides a relaxed and accessible way to find calm and change habits. Realising that she could help women worldwide, Kim achieved her long-held dream of building a business and launched Clementine in...
E44. Jessica & Louella Alderson, SoSyncd - The importance of a lead investor
July 02, 2021 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJess and Lou Alderson have tapped a fresh niche in the online dating market using Myers-Briggs personality profiling for a perfect match. They've taken their market by storm and in a short time, managed to raise over £700,000 in investment. Launching in January 2020, the sisters have gone from strength to strength despite the global pandemic. With the goal of building a marketable product as quickly as possible whilst they were still holding down full time jobs, Jess and Lou started with a ...
Jessica & Louella Alderson, SoSyncd - The importance of a lead investor
July 02, 2021 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJess and Lou Alderson have tapped a fresh niche in the online dating market using Myers-Briggs personality profiling for a perfect match. They've taken their market by storm and in a short time, managed to raise over £700,000 in investment. Launching in January 2020, the sisters have gone from strength to strength despite the global pandemic. With the goal of building a marketable product as quickly as possible whilst they were still holding down full time jobs, Jess and Lou started with a ...
Jessica & Louella Alderson, So Syncd - The importance of a lead investor
July 02, 2021 07:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJess and Lou Alderson have tapped a fresh niche in the online dating market using Myers-Briggs personality profiling for a perfect match. They've taken their market by storm and in a short time, managed to raise over £700,000 in investment. Launching in January 2020, the sisters have gone from strength to strength despite the global pandemic. With the goal of building a marketable product as quickly as possible whilst they were still holding down full time jobs, Jess and Lou started with a ...
KPI-based fundraising - Heinin Zhang, YHangry
June 04, 2021 12:01 - 45 minutes - 42 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Heinin Zhang, founder of YHangry. Heinin Zhang, Founder of YHangry, and her co-founder Siddhi Mittal recognised that people no longer entertain at home. In Heinin’s words “Millennials, as ‘Generation Convenience’, have killed the dinner party!” They established YHangry as a private chef service at an affordable price, offering an in-home complete service to take the hard work out of entertaining and have raised £1...
Answering preventive questions - Hele Väärsi, 9Plus
May 07, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBHele Väärsi raised money early on after founding 9Plus1, when she and her co-founder were still at the idea stage. Bravely seeking investment so early on, Hele strategically contacted VCs who she thought might have an interest in the product. This strategy proved successful as Hele secured investment from Voulez Capital in 2020, a specialist VC for female-founded businesses. In this episode, you'll discover… How to ensure you don’t waste time on VCs who won’t be a good fit Strategies for ...
Commit and take flight - Anushi Desai, Plant Pops
April 09, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBAnushi Desai started making snacks with popped lotus seeds as a side hustle whilst working as a management consultant at KPMG. She bravely handed in her notice with the “do it now or it might not happen” mentality and a sense of knowing it was time to do something else. Anushi and her co-founder self-funded to begin with, but as a product-based business, they needed investment early on. VCs offered them money - unusual for a young start-up - but they declined, as it didn’t feel like the rig...
Timing is everything - Pip Wilson, Amicable
March 05, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBPip brought her background in marketing and technology to the table whilst her co-founder, Kate, brought knowledge of psychology and family consulting. Their blend of skills were a perfect match for scaling the market changing business. Pip is an angel investor herself so had insider knowledge of how investors operate and what they look for. She reached out to those known to have an interest in companies impacting the world. After an SEIS friends and family round plus their first angel roun...
Due diligence on investors - Jennifer Lam, Stitch & Story
February 05, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBAfter growing the business organically for the first few years, Jennifer found an angel investor who not only invested money into Stitch & Story but mentored Jennifer and supported her to raise further investment rounds. In 2020, to help fast-track growth, Jennifer went on the hunt for venture capital investment, and made sure she did her due diligence on potential investors to get the right fit. Through all of this, Jennifer learnt to master her limiting beliefs, and nail the balance of bu...
Nailing your investor narrative - Ashleigh Bishop, Bagboard
January 08, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBAshleigh founded Bagboard as one of three co-founders who had never raised or run a business before. They initially funded it pre-launch through a ‘friends and family’ round of £500K, before raising £600K via crowdfunding in 2020. But the investment journey wasn’t easy. At the start of their crowdfunding campaign, they just weren’t getting the response they needed from investors. Why? Because their narrative simply wasn’t resonating. Ashleigh also found there were some differences in how i...
Don’t let perfection be the enemy - Sophie Baron, Mamamade
November 27, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBMamamade was born in March 2019 and Sophie bootstrapped the business for around a year. Instagram was incredibly powerful in getting the word out and growing the start-up organically. Sophie didn’t let “perfection be the enemy” - brilliant advice from her husband to just get the product out there and refine afterwards. In 2020, at the start of lockdown, Sophie started raising investment via angels, meeting them online via Zoom calls. They raised £300K and the virtual experience was positive...
Raising during a pandemic - Nicki Philips, Niix
October 30, 2020 12:25 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBIn 2020, Nicki raised over £150,000 of investment via crowdfunding to help her rocket fuel the growth of the brand, and she did it right in the middle of lockdown! Crowdfunding certainly isn’t a quick fix; it can be just as time-consuming as the traditional investment round, although it often happens faster. Nicki managed to juggle motherhood, run her business and raise investment all in tandem by getting super structured with her time. The exposure from crowdfunding can feel scary, and eve...
Investment: It’s not all about the money - Patricia Salume, VeeLoop
October 02, 2020 08:49 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBPatricia and Randa met through a local Facebook group, showing how it’s possible to find business partners in unlikely places. They attempted a first round of investment early which didn’t work out because of the common investor feedback “We need to see traction”. They bootstrapped for some time, building the product and getting several retail customers onboard. After multiple successful rounds totalling £300k, Patricia learnt that being pregnant whilst raising investment is possible and it...
Go big fast or take it slow? - Catherine Bedford, Dashel
September 04, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBCatherine started the business with her own savings initially, then got a start-up loan from Virgin which was useful, not only for the cash but for the help they gave her with the business strategy. Some entrepreneurs feel nervous about taking on debt, but Catherine believes in being relentlessly optimist. Before the cycling helmet launched, Catherine received a £150K investment from Angel investors from her extended network. Dashel qualified for SEIS, a scheme making it tax efficient to in...
Can crowdfunding give you confidence? - Claire Ransom, Lazy Flora
August 21, 2020 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn 2017, from her parent’s home in Nottingham, Claire self funded the business and over two years grew her customer base. At that point, it was time to raise pre-seed equity investment via crowdfunding, totalling £85,000. Before Claire went through the crowdfunding process, she didn’t feel confident in herself. After going through the stringent checks Seedrs perform, Claire realised Laza Flora was a very credible business. Summer 2020 was to be the big investment round for Lazy Flora, but...
Drinks with investors - Joyce & Raissa de Haas, Double Dutch Drinks
July 24, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBJoyce and Raissa began their entrepreneurial journey with few industry connections, after doing a Master’s at UCL in Technology Entrepreneurship, where they won an award that gave their new business a funding grant. By connecting with around 500 potential investors via LinkedIn, they managed to bring on five individual investors for their first round. They’ve now completed three funding rounds totalling £4.5m, including the most recent, from their “dream investors”, global drinks giant, Hei...
Doubling the raise with Future Fund - Merilee Karr, UnderTheDoormat
June 26, 2020 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBMerilee founded the business in 2014 and brought on board advisers. Their value was twofold: they invested and were experts in their own areas, advising on aspects of growing the company. She made the decision to raise multiple crowdfunds as opposed to taking a larger sum of money from VCs. Merilee highlighted that raising investment and selling equity needs to be a strategic long term decision. Recently, UnderTheDoormat closed a round of £300K, using the Future Fund. The Future Fund is a c...
Healthy food & healthy financials - Kristina Komlosiova & Stephanie Johnson, Pollen + Grace
May 29, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThe business started from humble beginnings when Stephanie discovered she had several food intolerances in 2015 whilst working with Kristina in events management. She began making home-made gluten and dairy-free lunches to bring into work. Realising they could turn these lunches into a business, friends Stephanie and Kristina launched Pollen + Grace. They self-funded the business from their home kitchen for the first 18 months before seeking equity investment. They secured a number of Angel...
Building An Investor Network from Scratch - Pip Jamieson, The Dots
May 01, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Pip Jamieson, the Founder and CEO of The Dots, a professional network for people in the creative industry. Pip has raised £5.5m in investment finance in the last few years, with two major funding rounds and the platform has over half a million members. In 2009, Pip co-founded her first business in Australia, called The Loop, a network to help people in the creative industries network and find jobs. After selling h...
Charity, Tech & Funding - Francesca Hodgson, GoodBox
April 03, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Francesca Hodgson, the Co-founder and Managing Director of GoodBox, which helps non-profit organisations to take cashless donations, by providing them with contactless charity donation boxes, along with software to help them track, analyse and grow the amount of money they raise. Francesca worked as a graphic designer straight after university for World Cancer Research Fund and has always been a creative at heart....
Over 1000 Investors - Sarah Merrick, Ripple Energy
March 06, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Sarah Merrick, the Founder and CEO of Ripple, an innovative clean energy ownership platform. Sarah set up Ripple to enable household consumers to own their own source of clean power and transform the ownership of the UK's energy assets. Sarah has worked in the wind energy industry for 19 years. Prior to setting up Ripple, she was Head of Public Affairs for Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine manufacturer, an...
From Failed Round to Supermarket Success - Julianne Ponan, Creative Nature
February 21, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBFundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Julianne Ponan, Managing Director of superfood brand Creative Nature, a company that creates raw superfoods, snacks and food mixes suitable for everyone including those who are nutrition-conscious, vegans and those who live with a food allergy or intolerance. Julianne started her career in investment banking and was shortly asked by her father, a businessman, to do due diligence on a company he’d invested in that ...