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In 2022, female entrepreneurs in the UK received less than a 2 per cent share of the multi-billion-pound venture capital funding. This is despite, according to the Kauffman Foundation, women-led businesses (when they are venture backed) generate 12 per cent higher revenue than startups run by men.
Northern investment duo Jordan Dargue and Helen Oldham are taking their Lifted Ventures investment platform to Newcastle.
It aims to increase private investment in businesses led by women
A new initiative, supported by Lloyds Bank, plans to create regional women-founder growth boards in five cities across the UK, in a bid to make high-growth entrepreneurship more accessible to women outside of London and the South East.
Partnership aims to launch a number of pathways of support for diverse female founders seeking investment