Latest Angel investment Podcast Episodes

Investing Like a Woman - Bonnie Lister Parsons, Seen On Screen

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - June 07, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with entrepeneur Bonnie Lister Parsons about her journey to opening a female-only investment round for empowering dance-class company Seen on Screen. Finding male investors impossible to crack, former dancer Bonnie raised £10...

From Idea to International Acclaim - Emily Bendell, Bluebella

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - May 24, 2019 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Emily Bendell, Founder and CEO of international lingerie brand Bluebella, about raising £2.1 million through angel, government-match and crowdfunding. Emily talks raising on a pivot, hustling to find an investor audie...

Reward-Based Crowdfunding Unwrapped - Celia Pool,DAME

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - May 10, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Celia Pool, co-founder of sustainable care brand DAME, about raising £120,000 to finance a pivot into product-based business. Celia highlights the highs and lows of a rewards based raise, the importance of narrative in...

Pitching - Dialogue or Monologue? - Riham Satti , MeVitae

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - April 26, 2019 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter the Arena, talks with Riham Satti about raising £500,000 to launch MeVitae, an innovative tech company working in the recruitment arena. Riham carefully planned an investment round, practiced pitching at events and realised the importance ...

Crowdfunding Laid Bare - Daisy Hill, Zzish

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - April 12, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Daisy Hill about the ins and outs of crowdfunding over £2m for Zzish - an international Edtech platform that matches educational apps with student needs. Daisy takes us behind the scenes of crowdfunding and talks oth...

Where's the Value in Valuation? - May Al-Karooni, Globechain

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - March 29, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliot Brown, The CEO of Enter the Arena, talks with May Al-Karooni, founder of award-winning B2B giving platform Globechain, about why she won't flaunt her £500,000 fundraise, the right time to go for a VC round and why its time female entrepreneurs recognise their auth...

Is Fundraising like Dating? - Cecily Motley and Ilana Lever, Motley London

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - March 24, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Cecily Motley and Ilana Lever, co-founders of Motley London, about raising £365,000 of angel investment to fuel the growth of their design-led jewellery business. Questioning the traditional fundraising narrative they...

Converting Casual Nods into Formal Yeses - Bea Warner, Exaactly

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - March 01, 2019 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert, Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Bea Warner about raising £360,000 to get her innovative logistics company off the ground, the strategies she learnt for getting commitment from angel investors, the importance of formal advisors including those she f...

Crowdfunding For Wonky Fruit & Veg – Emilie Vanpoperinghe, OddBox

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - February 15, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Emilie Vanpoperinghe from OddBox about how she raised £530k through crowdfunding for her mission driven wonky fruit and veg business, how she used clever commercial terms to fund the business in the early days and how...

£1m Raised But We Nearly Lost The Round - Kate Briscoe, Legal Beagles

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - February 01, 2019 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Kate Briscoe of Legal Beagles, who spent seven years building her business as a side hustle, before successfully raising £1m from angel investors to fuel the growth of her free legal forum, that has to date helped ov...

Dragons Den - what's it really like? - Cecily Mills - Coconuts Naturally

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - January 18, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Cecily Mills of Coconuts Naturally, who won investors over on Dragons Den, before closing her £180k round via angel investors. Not easy when she lives in Cornwall with two young children. This is a story not to be mis...

3 Years Bootstrapping - Diana Greenhalgh, MyBespokeRoom.com

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - January 04, 2019 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Diana Greenhalgh from MyBespoke Room.com about how she bootstrapped her business for 3 years before successfully raising £800,000 to fuel the growth of her online interior design business, bringing in her customers as...

Talking Tampons With Investors - Martha Silcott, Fab Little Bag

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - January 04, 2019 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena talks with Martha Silcott of Fab Little Bag, who reveals how she successfully raised £400,000 to fuel the growth of her period disposal bag business, including how she secured one of her suppliers as an investor, how to pitch a '...

Raising £1.9m Pre-Launch and Pregnant - Kate Hofman, GrowUp Urban Farms

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - January 04, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Kate Hofman, GrowUp Urban Farms raised £1.9m at pre-launch stage to launch her vertical stacked hydroponic farming business; she reveals how she secured an innovation grant for the significant capital she required at the beginning, overcame the challenges of raising money when pregnant, and real...

What To Wear For Investor Meetings - Sarah Bertram, Smile Tribe

Fundraising Stories with Female Founders - January 04, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fundraising expert Julia Elliott Brown, the CEO of Enter The Arena, talks with Sarah Bertram from Smile Tribe about how she kick-started her personal life coach app business by raising £50,000, including how she effectively used a convertible loan pre-valuation, how she sustained her energy duri...