Do you want to hear more about the future of finance? Do you want to learn more about the power of Gender-lens Investing? Are you looking to learn the strategies for gender smart investing?

Join the interactive series of deep-dive workshops that will bring together investors from countries in Europe and Central Asia and discover  the concept of gender-lens investment, the practical strategies and examples of its application. The workshops will briefly describe the concept of gender-lens investing and the proven value of diverse teams, it will focus on  practices and tools for integrating gender lens strategy into an investment portfolio and recruiting women entrepreneurs. Will explain the roles and techniques of angel networks in closing the founders’ and funders’ gap in the entrepreneurial/start-up ecosystem. 

The workshops has been initiated in the framework of the second regional 'Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo 2022' that was organized by the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. The first workshop was centered on the topic "Investor's Perspective - why invest in women owned businesses?" and has been delivered within the Expo 2022 virtual event. You can still listen to the session -  https://app.socio.events/MjA0OTI/Agenda/273900/Session/715171


The Expo 2022 was a unique opportunity for women entrepreneurs to connect, create and accelerate business growth, together with private companies, start-up founders, business owners, investors, women’s business associations and entrepreneur networks from the region.

Second workshop is scheduled on Thursday 3:00 pm UTC, December 1, 2022 and you should expect to: 

• Hear gender-lens investing concept and its proven value of diversity in teams, as well as practices and tools to integrate gender lens strategy into the investment portfolio 
• Hear the experience of investing in women startup leaders from the guest investor
• Hear the best practices for angel groups to recruit women investors as well as founders

*Everything above illustrated with examples and personal experience

Deadline for the registration - COB, November 29, 2022 

Speaker

Leah Edwards

Investment Director, Lighter Capital 

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Leah Edwards is an Investment Director with Lighter Capital, funding recurring-revenue companies with non-dilutive funding. Previously she was a Partner with Pegasus Technology Ventures, investing in collaboration with corporate limited partners. Leah is also an active angel investor, particularly focused on social ventures and founders from underrepresented groups.

Leah started her career in management consulting then launched new products for Intuit, Oracle and Taligent, a joint-venture of Apple and IBM. She then joined the founding team of an enterprise SaaS company called Post Communications, which was acquired by Netcentives within two years for $380 million. After advising and serving in interim leadership roles for other startups that she helped sell to major companies including the US Green Business Council and SolarCity, she co-founded another marketing technology company, Overstat, which was purchased by Tealeaf Technology (now IBM).

In addition to investing, Leah supports startups by working with accelerator programs, particularly USMAC and its Prospera program, which aims to increase the number of female-founded startups globally.

Leah serves on the Boards of Cumplo.com, an SMB lending platform, and NameCoach, an enterprise SaaS company that serves both Higher Education and Enterprise markets. Leah is also an executive coach and a Lecturer for UC Berkeley’s and Stanford’s Engineering Departments teaching leadership and innovation skills. Leah’s involvement in Higher Education began in 2012 when she became the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Leah holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA and Certificate of Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahedwards/ 

Please register by COB, November 29th via the following link - https://forms.gle/QN6wR9EHm5nkYzRg8

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