We have had the pleasure of speaking with CEO and Founder at Newfund, Patrick Malka. We explore Patrick’s commitment to building a culture of inclusiveness, from his equal pay policy to his unbiased vision of his employees. As he points out, Patrick’s career has been dotted with key encounters and he believes that his path has been made possible thanks to and with the support of women. This is quite uncommon in the ruthless world of finance!  Tune in to discover about his vision and how he applies it to his company culture.   The post Leading a VC with an unbiased vision app ..read more

In the occasion of the International Women’s Day, we had the pleasure of interviewing Claire L. Evans. She’s a remarkable woman: musician, singer, journalist and she’s also the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. > The reason and mission of the book – Min 1 In the podcast, Claire tells us how she grew up into tech as her father was an engineer. “When I grew up I thought a computer had no gender” she said. But society bias and inequality later taught her otherwise : she felt a distance between technology and women and, as a journalist, she started lo ..read more

This week we had the chance to interview Seb Butt, an inspiring advocate of organisations in all industries making systemic changes which can lead to opportunities for everyone. He explains how to bring in diversity, just like he did at Diversity VC did with the launch of the Future VC programme. “With Future VC we wanted to make a radical, first-of-its-kind, intervention in the VC industry to access diverse talent.”   In this podcast episode, Seb explains why the VC industry is still lagging behind others across the board when it comes to diversity and inclusion and how, with more informatio ..read more

Share this episode on Twitter with only one click! Hi, I’m Check Warner, I’m the co-founder & CEO of Diversity VC. Diversity VC is non-profit set up to promote diversity and inclusion in venture capital in tech. We collect original data, we help young people to get into the industry from all kinds of background through our internship program, we help VCs turning more inclusive and we help entrepreneurs to access capital. And it’s our mission to make venture capital representative and diverse to represent the society that we invest into. So the advice I wanted to give today is how y ..read more

Hey I’m Kim Walsh Global VP of HubSpot for Startups. What HubSpot for Startups is, it’s a program that helps. We partner with VCs, incubators, basically all startup organizations, and our mission is to help millions of startups grow better. So we started this, HubSpot for Startups, three years ago. The team is a global team now, we help over 10,000 startup customers. We love to empower all types of companies, and we think that’s really important, but we really love to support our female founders as well. So that’s a little bit about me, one other thing that might be interesting is I’ve been at ..read more

Hello, I am Amy Lewin. I’m a journalist at Sifted which is a new media platform backed by the Financial Times. At Sifted, I write about startups and tech across the whole of Europe. Although, I have a particular interest in what I call “the people side of companies”.  And I really enjoy writing about companies that have a really wide impact on society. Especially in areas like health-tech, in mobility, anything to do with diversity in tech as well, I really care about. Today, I am talking about how to catch a journalist’s attention.  So, journalists get a whole lot of emails. I get dozens if n ..read more

Hello, my name is Ariella Dreyfuss, I am originally from England. I moved to Israel around 14 years ago and I am a partner in the M&A department of Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. law firm. I’ve been working as a lawyer in the high-tech space for over 10 years, during which time I have represented startups, mature tech companies, VC funds, corporate ventures and private equity funds. One of my soft spots has always been MedTech and I am delighted by the recent traction and attention that FemTech is receiving. So today I am going to speak briefly about FemTech: what it is, why I think it’s ..read more

Hi I’m Maren Bannon, I’m the co-founder of Jane VC. Jane is a new fund to invest in early stage female lead startups in Europe in the U.S. Before moving to Europe and starting Jane, I spent my career as an operator in San Francisco. I worked at large tech companies, startups, and I was also a founder. At university I studied engineering, and over and over again I was surrounded by rooms full of men. I got the idea of starting Jane from my experience as a woman in tech, and recognizing the huge untapped potential of female founders. I want the technology being built to be as diverse as the peop ..read more

Hi, my name is Alison Murdock, and I am currently the Chief Marketing Officer at SocialChorus. We’re a work force communications platform that helps organizations connect and engage everyone in their work force and I am based in San Francisco, California. I’ve worked in Silicon Valley and here in Europe with many startups over the last 20 years, helping them find their super powers and winning.  Having worked a long time in Silicon Valley, I often get asked about the “bro culture” and “how do you manage that?” With the exception of my own business which I had for 7 years, I’m often the single ..read more

I am Jade LeMaitre, I am the CTO of Hease Robotics. Originally, I have a background in engineering before I completely fell in love with robotics. That’s why three years ago I decided to team up with Max my co-founder, and start Hease. It is a robotics company, our mission is to have businesses to use air ride driven robotics Today I am here to share something important for me to the 50inTech community, and that is: “as engineers we have the unique ability to build the future you want so, and my mission is, and always was to: put robots in the public where they can solve everyday problems and ..read more