HearstLab International

Blown away with Valencia Digital Summit #VDS! Congratulations to the team behind it, thank you Patricia Pastor for inviting us to be an active part of it!

Our Director Azahara García Espejo will be attending Valencia Digital Summit #VDS2024 Join us for the panels: 🌍 Bridging Strengths: Americas and Spain // October 24th at 12.20pm - Santander Stage Andrés Saborido - Managing Director Wayra Amadeo Quirós Martén - President Caricaco Ventures Andrea Mazariegos - Swisscontact Azahara García Espejo - Director HearstLab International Ana Avila - Business Insider 💪 Shaping a robust investment ecosystem // October 24th at 13h - Private Village Marta Cruz - Co-Founder and GP at NXTP Ventures, Co-Founder WeInvest Andrea Martinelli - Diversity VC Yolanda Tomás - WA4STEAM Javier Villamizar 魔术师 - SoftBank Azahara García Espejo - Director HearstLab International You can see the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/d-Ytx-Np

Great memories from last week's Pitch HearstLab London! Jack Spizz Mark Redman Louise Harvey Eve Burton Michael Canencia Serena Hopkins Camilla Frydenbø Barbara Gottardi Kayleigh Ciara Kuptz Chloe Sweden Zoe Rowswell Jen Lothian Megumi Ikeda 😃 David Fogel Marie-Claire Chappet Lydia Slater Katie Vanneck Maren Bannon Hannah Bernard OBE

We will be closing applications for the Female Founders Breakfast, hosted by HearstLab International and Delvy, as part of Norrsken Impact Week, on Friday 15th. Please, make sure you submit your application before the deadline 👉 https://lu.ma/rmkgr3b0 *This is an invite-only event. If you're interested in attending, please register your interest. Following registration, we will review applications and extend formal invitations to selected participants.

The results are in! After careful deliberation from our judges, the £100k WINNERS of our first Pitch HearstLab London 🇬🇧 event for female founders are: Barbara Gottardi of Finbridge Global and Kayleigh Ciara Kuptz of Deployed! Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eDZq39Ab A special mention also goes to Chloe Sweden of Lowr, who won the bonus editorial prize package from our partner Harper's Bazaar, including an invite to their next Bazaar at Work Summit. More: https://lnkd.in/g6Pket6 We're incredibly proud of all 6 finalists that competed and are extremely grateful to our MC Marie-Claire Chappet, the esteemed panel of judges, Eve Burton, Maren Bannon, 😃 David Fogel, Katie Vanneck-Smith and brilliant speakers Hannah Bernard OBE and Lydia Slater for making it such a wonderful event. To everyone who joined us in-person and online, thank you for welcoming Pitch HearstLab so warmly to the UK!

With under 1 week to go until Pitch HearstLab London, we’re excited to introduce our 6 brilliant finalists: Drum roll please ...🥁🥁🥁 🚀Barbara Gottardi of Finbridge Global, the global fintech platform that assess and score fintech capabilities and speeds up the collaboration gap between financial institutions and fintechs. 🚀Camilla Frydenbø of Lyll.io, a self-serve platform for SMEs to advertise in digital newspapers, magazines and industry websites. 🚀Chloe Sweden of Lowr, a white-labelled sustainability platform for teams to log and lower their fan emissions. 🚀Jen Lothian of MyArk, the first digital data wallet revolutionising how data on home and finances is accessed and shared from consumer to provider. 🚀Kayleigh Ciara Kuptz of Deployed an AI-assisted decision and document automation platform that streamlines resourcing decisions and project agreements for global enterprises. 🚀Zoe Rowswell of Tern Eco, the B2B SaaS solution that enables retailers of any size to run circular programmes. After working closely with them for the last 3 months, they are all deserved winners in our eyes, but join us on the 16th to find out who will take home £100k from HearstLab by signing up here: https://lnkd.in/eYPSFfKS #FemaleFounders #WomeninTech #PitchHearstLab

We are thrilled to officially announce our participation in the Vested Impact £1.1M Seed round around along with Impact Shakers 🚀 🙌 ! "By leveraging data from over 200 million academic papers, and 100 million impact data points from leading organisations such as the United Nations an The World Bank, the [Vested Impact] platform provides companies and asset managers with a comprehensive, science-based view of their impact against global standards like the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) thereby helping them report and manage their risks and impacts on people and the planet." 🌎✨ Kimberley Abbott, an official welcome to the global HearstLab community of #FemaleFounders! More from the The Fintech Times: https://lnkd.in/eBQT9tHG

It's less than 2 weeks to go until the first UK edition of our flagship #PitchHearstLab competition for female founders, and we can’t wait to share our network of accomplished and inspiring female entrepreneurs, leaders and executives with you in London!! Here’s a look 👀 at what to expect … While our judges decide who will win a £100k investment from HearstLab, stick around as 2 esteemed speakers take the main stage for a Fireside Chat: Hannah Bernard OBE - Head of Business Banking, Barclays UK & Co-Chair of the UK’s Invest in Women Taskforce + Lydia Slater - Editor-in-Chief at Harper's Bazaar Additionally, our fabulous MC 🎤 for the evening will be Marie-Claire Chappet – a HearstLab Scout and Acting Commissioning Editor at Harper's Bazaar, and Editor of Bazaar at Work. Tickets sold out this week, but we've released a few more, so grab them quickly to hear these amazing women speak in person on 16 October: https://lnkd.in/eYPSFfKS #FemaleFounders #PitchCompetition #PitchHearstLab

2024 is being a landmark year for HearstLab for many reasons. One of the most notable achievements has been our expansion into the Middle East, offering us the privilege of connecting with exceptional women founders in this dynamic and fast-growing market. We are proud to announce our historic first GCC investment in Quantum Platform - Your Local Ad-Tech Enabler led by Sara Bin Ladin and Omar Malaikah. It is an honor tu support Sara and her team as we embark on this exciting journey together. Thanks to the support from Fitch Group, Inc. and the Fitch Ratings international offices, to Eve Burton for her vision, to Nejoud Al Mulaik for her on the ground expertise and leadership and to Sultan Barazi who has led this operation in such an extraordinary way. And, of course, to every single person in the HearstLab/HearstLab International dream team who has made this possible (specially Kriti Krishna!) More about Quantum and our investment here: https://lnkd.in/d6Y9FVCd

Congratulations to portfolio company Audvice for their recent acquisition by Hype1000!