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The Telegraph's Women Mean Business campaign launched in 2018 and sparked a Government-backed review Three years ago, on International Women’s Day 2018, The Telegraph launched its landmark Women Mean Business campaign, which shone a light on the difficulties faced by female entrepreneurs. The campaign honed in on the shocking funding gap: around a third of UK businesses are owned by women, but female-led start-ups receive only nine per cent of venture capital funding. This limits the potential scope of these businesses, and stops women achieving their potential.  Within 24 hours after the...

British Business Bank Publishes Data on Future Fund The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data on the 971 companies that have been approved for £975.5 million worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since launch last May. The Future Fund is designed to support early-stage ventures that typically do not have the capacity to borrow money as they generate losses. The UK government created the program so the entrepreneurial class, important for long term growth, was not devastated by the COVID-19 health crisis. Both Crowdcube and Seedrs have utilized the scheme to help raise capital ...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. “Most Sundays, my family and I would alternate between a roast and dim sum,” says Pippa Lamb. The British-born investor has always clung tightly to her Chinese roots, growing up in a family of political refugees (on her father’s side) who fled Communist China. Through her biculturalism, Lamb seems to have found comfort in duality—achieving academic excellence at both Oxford and Harvard, switching from English to Mandarin, and now connecting creatives with entrepreneurs at Sweet Capital. And that’s what seems to drive...