Gether

What a night at the She Loves Tech Oceania Finals, we're thrilled to be finalists. "These 10 startups represent the best of Oceania’s women-led and women-impact ventures, each bringing innovative solutions that address critical challenges in our society. ” Congratulations to Carla Penn-Kahn at Profit Peak for taking the grand prize and thank you Mike Abbott, Alicia Darvall, Nicole Kleid Small, Alexandra Gifford and Saskia van Lier. Thank you Diana Teoh 张慧凝 for shining the spotlight on #femalefounders #shelovestech

"Parents who feel pushed to the brink deserve more than platitudes. They need tangible support." The US Surgeon General wrote an op-ed in the The New York Times following the "Parents under pressure" advisory, alerting to the urgent need to address mental health and wellbeing of parents. 👉 "48% of parents say most days their stress is completely overwhelming." 👉 "The stress and mental health challenges faced by parents... aren't always visible, but they can take a steep toll." 👉 "It's time to recogize they constitute a serious public health concern for our country." At Gether, we hope this is a catalyst for EVERY country to sit up and take notice. Article: https://lnkd.in/gHQ33PB8 Surgeon General Advisory - Parents under pressure: https://lnkd.in/gpSr8n2u #mentalload #workingparents #workingmums

So excited to be announced as an Oceania finalist for She Loves Tech Oceania 2024. We will be in Melbourne pitching for this on 2nd of September. 🤞 💃 💥  

Can AI play a role in closing the gender gap? Yes! Claire Waring recently featured on the new Flip the Focus, the podcast to change the way we look at tech, starting with female funders, founders and leaders. Listen to the full episode to hear Claire and Jen Dobbie get into: 🏋️♀️ Why women carry the weight of the mental load. 💰 The scale of the issue as more women return to work. 🧠 How #AI can help redistribute responsibilities to level the playing field. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/grYvagAd Tune in to also hear Ida Tin talk #femtech, and Noga Edelstein on funding #femalefounders! 📢

Like to learn more about Gether? Join our Wednesday webinar for a live demo and discover how this AI-driven assistant can ease your mental load.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/gsJ9kb6Q We'll have plenty of time for questions and a live onboarding for anyone who'd like to take us up on a 30 day free trial. #femalefounders #mentalload #workingparents

💰 Managing a household is worth $3.8Trillion in economic value. The latest US report on mental load reveals this and other eye-opening stats. 📊 See the Forbes article here: https://lnkd.in/gZia8A_K Full report here: https://lnkd.in/giuWysQp #mentalload #workingparents #workingmums #femalefounders

Before launching Gether, we ran a survey to understand what today's parents face. We were overwhelmed with the response. 📆 90% of women feel solely responsible for their family's schedule ⏱️ They spend 520 hours per year organising family 🙋 85% are seeking digital tools to help We unpacked this and more with Ryan Kelly last week in a great webinar about mental load and it's impact on creative industries. Watch it here. https://lnkd.in/gB78PzhV #mentalload #workingparents #workingmums #workingmoms

Solving mental load = more profit, more awards and better talent retention. Mental load hinders women's careers, widening the gender gap in leadership. Research shows Australian companies with gender-diverse management are 30% more profitable and retain talent better. If that doesn't convince you, did you know that gender-diverse creative teams in agencies win more awards than single-sex teams? Great chat between Claire Waring and Ryan Kelly yesterday, thanks to all who attended. https://lnkd.in/gmAj6iYG https://lnkd.in/gKkGX27p #mentalload #gendergap #dei #workingparents #workingmums #workingmoms #supportwomen

Coming up tomorrow Claire Waring and Ryan Kelly unpack mental load, it’s impact on creative industries and what you can do about it for yourself and your teams. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gJN_Sm_2

We've had some great wins this year pitching for Airwallex at Blackbird Sunrise and Startmate but there's always more for us to learn. Last night at Fishburners pitch coach Peter Browne, framed pitching success perfectly - It's all about control: 🧘♀️ Yourself - use breathing and rational thought to get through anxiety and imposter syndrome. Slowing down my breathing right before going on stage really helps calm me. ⏱ Time - It's binary and inflexible. If you have 3 minutes you don’t have 4. Be realistic. ✏️ Content - Control your content into the time you have available. Distill and craft your message to convey your story concisely. 🎬 Delivery - Control the pace and intonation, make sure you aren't rushing or stumbling through. When pitching at Sunrise we rehearsed, timed, cut and timed again to make sure we could deliver at a pace that would engage the audience. One last tip our co-founder Claire Waring would add: 🤓 Memorise your content - You might not have presenter notes or even be able to see slides in front of you. Memorising also helps get you through those initial moments of anxiety and into the flow of a presentation - enabling you to make better eye contact with the audience and pull them into your story. What helps you? Would you like to see more of these tips and founder journey stories? #pitchtips #learnings #startupjourney #pitchday #entrepreneur #pitching #fundraising #fundingstartups #startup