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Ken Valledy, an international business adviser, entrepreneur, and co-author of The Startup Lexicon: Demystifying the Everyday Language of Startups, will meet with Scottish female founders and business angels at an event being hosted by Investing Women Angels next week. Mr Valledy will address the au

Jackie Waring, CEO of Investing Women, Scotland’s first all-female business angel group, has been shortlisted for a UK accolade in recognition for her role in promoting diversity in equity investment. A finalist for this year’s UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) Investment in Diversi

Organisers of the AccelerateHER Awards are staging a three-day market building virtual trade mission across Europe next week for members of their female company founder network. With the support of the Scottish Government and Scottish Development International (SDI) in Germany, the event takes place

Twelve aspirational female company founders have been shortlisted as finalists in the AccelerateHER Awards 2021. Three female-led companies were selected from each of the awards’ four specific categories - CleanTech and Climate; Disruptive Innovation; MedTech and Science; and FinTech, Data Sci

Scotland has a thriving technology sector but there’s still a huge amount of untapped potential that could further elevate its success and bolster our economy. Women, who remain significantly underrepresented within the sector, have a major part to play in making this happen, writes Jackie War

Organisers of the AccelerateHER Awards have launched their 2021 programme today which will be staged online including a virtual finals event celebrating the achievements of inspiring and ambitious female business founders.  The annual awards provide an opportunity for businesswomen who have fou

The AccelerateHER programme, run by Scottish-based Investing Women, has teamed up with Barclays Ventures to offer specialist mentoring to some of the nation’s most promising female-led companies. Angel investors from Scotland’s only all-female angel group, Investing Women Angels, will de

The 2020 AccelerateHER Awards for Scottish female business founders has announced that global IT and business consulting services provider CGI is one of its core sponsors for this year’s programme. CGI joins Barclays Ventures and Skyscanner who return as 2020 AccelerateHER sponsors. A further

Scotland’s only all-female business angel group Investing Women has announced the appointment of Rhona Campbell to its board. A member of the Investing Women angel group since 2013, Ms Campbell has also served as an advisor to its board. She now joins as a full board member bringing more

Scottish female business founders are once again being offered an opportunity to raise their company’s profile and win a place on an international trade mission with the launch of the 2020 AccelerateHER Awards. Organised by all-female business angel group Investing Women, the awards are design

AccelerateHER, Investing Women’s awards and events platform for growth-focused female-founded businesses in Scotland, has announced a partnership with its London-based namesake. AccelerateHER was launched in 2016 and co-founded by Brent Hoberman, co-creator of Founders Forum, a private network