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Claudine Adeyemi-Adams FIEP is #Hiring for a Senior Founders Associate. If you know someone who’d be a good fit, please tag them. Details below: Claudine is an impressive founder with an unconventional background. Alongside her co-founder, Boris Bambo, they’ve drawn inspiration from their personal experiences with unemployment and underemployment to develop Earlybird, an AI-powered solution they believe can address the pressing issue of high unemployment rates in the UK. If you want to apply (or know a great candidate), details are in the comments. We’ll interview Claudine for Hiring Humans next week. We discuss: 1️⃣ Details on the Senior Founders Associate role 2️⃣ How Earlybird is using conversational AI to support job seekers and workers through employment support programs 3️⃣ How she navigated her way to a successful career in law, with an unconventional approach to securing job opportunities ______________________________ 🤝 If you'd like AI tips for hiring or how to run your startup, I send a weekly 30-second ( + longer form post) newsletter with lessons learned from conversations with founders and early-stage teams. 📩Subscribe in the comments.

Applications still open for the UBS Female Founder Award 2024 You can still apply for the 2024 UBS Female Founder award – the deadline is end of the day on 27th October - don’t miss your chance to apply as an outstanding female, early-stage entrepreneur in the world of fintech or enterprise tech! Applicants are in with a chance to win our cash prize as well as participate in Project Female Founder 2025, our investor readiness training program which provides coaching, mentoring and access to a UBS network to support their growth. To make your application and to find out more about the award follow the link - https://from.ubs/6041m5MvN #UBSFemaleFounder #ShareUBS

In my next life I’ll be an MC. Such a pleasure to host Concave Summit with the force that is Vicki Yeo and her team. Check out Alma Angels’ Chay Pearce-Cochrane’s takeaways below… #climatetech

Almas in Birmingham for Tech Week 👏

Congrats to our Alma Josie and Venrex team for the launch of your #beauty fund 👏 It will focus on early-stage businesses (both b2c and b2b) operating in the beauty/beauty-related sectors and will invest between £100K - £1M per business. Share with your founders and friends operating in beauty!

Message Tara Attfield-Tomes from The 51% Club for more info on the FORTUNA FELLOWSHIP for women entrepreneurs 👇

How lucky am I? Started my day with an amazing keynote from Claire Downes at Women in Tech event today! Not only did she talk about her incredible experience in the film industry (writer and producer behind #TheJobLot which I'm gonna re-watch with different eyes now 😂) but also about the work she does with Virtual Decisions. And boy, is she doing something great! Look forward to see how we can connect her to friends and partners in the States ✨ Plus catching up over lunch with the lovely Roxane Sanguinetti of Alma Angels, fabulous friend, former client and fantastic woman in tech promoting an inclusion and diversity agenda in investment! Sitting on the panel moderated by the fantastic Tara Attfield-Tomes, Roxane had the question of: how do we bring the stats of "only 2% (which is actually 1.8%) of women get funding" in to double digits? One key takeaway: "more collab between female founders and female investors; if you're a female founder who's gotten investment refer another female founder" 🙋♀️ Yup, makes sense! Today has been a great day! And it's not even finished yet... #TechWeek #TechWeek2024 #WomenInTech

👼 Last week we brought an amazing panel of angels together to talk the #RadiaAccelerator cohort through raising from angel investors. Thank you Edwina Johnson, Matthew Roberts and Roxane Sanguinetti for sharing your insights, tips and tricks.   📌 Here are some of the key points we touched on during the panel discussion:   💍 Will you be my angel? -Create a spreadsheet with your industry heroes and reach out to them. Even if they don't end up investing, they can still open a door to someone else, become an advisor or even a chair. -If the person has never angel invested before, it is still worth asking if they would invest in your business. -You can also look at similar companies' cap tables to identify potential angels interested in the space (that being said, you don't want angels that are invested in a competitor). -Syndicates like Alma Angels find their deals through community members or founders can apply directly. Nodes Ventures similarly relies on their community bringing deals.   🧠 Is gutfeel the angel DD? -Angel communities and syndicates will collectively look at deals. These groups typically consist of a mix of experts in different industries and fields, meaning they can 'crowdsource' a view on a market quickly. -But back to the gut, most angels will only invest if they believe in the founder. Relationship building is key. -However, don't let angels take up too much of your time. Time should match the check size and/or value add. -To save yourself answering the same questions over and over again, create a bank of FAQs.   💸 Investment terms & valuation -For angel-only rounds, terms are typically set by the largest investors or the most experienced angel. -It's important to think about equity runway when setting your valuation, i.e. thinking about future funding rounds. -SAFEs are a very founder friendly way of not setting your valuation at pre-seed, however be careful with 'stacking' them up.    🛠 Cap table construct -Diversity on the cap table is key, both in terms of representation and investor incentives (i.e. a fund will have very different incentives from a strategic angel). -Invite potential customers or design partners to be an angel investor. -Be wary of 'party rounds' - where all angels have similar ownership and not much skin in the game.   🔥 Any angels out there who have more burning tips for our Radia founders? 🌱 Anna Torrents Saldo, Lydia Taranilla, Beth G., Ebony C., Emily Pilsworth, Jessica Liew, Sungjung Kim, Krupa Modi, CFA, Marta Grzeskiewicz, Philippa Dunjay, Polina Kyriushko, Roma S., Tara Ramdonee, Tara Sakhuja, Julie Gabriel, Ines Clark cc Katya Pogudina, Lauren Apostolidis - AlbionVC and Deepali Nangia -Speedinvest

Summer recap ⏮️ In June, I had the pleasure of attending the Alma Angels Summit in London. The Alma Angels have created a diverse, inclusive community committed to backing female founders within the tech space. With four outstanding angel investors in Movetru® from the Alma community, it was great connecting in person. Later I attended the The ERA Foundation Annual Dinner thanks to Andrew Everett. I received the ERA Foundation Fellowship in 2022 and it was wonderful to be welcomed back with over 100 guests for a lovely evening of insightful conversations. In July I returned to the US. I started in the San Francisco Bay Area visiting our superstar advisor Marilou McFarlane 🚀 Next stop SEICon in Las Vegas. This event brought together industry leaders from all over the world and showcased the latest innovations transforming the sporting and entertainment world. For our second year we attended the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Summit @ The Sanctuary in Spain! This event brought together some of the most renowned experts, athletes, and decision-makers in the sports tech industry. The opportunity to demonstrate Movetru’s capabilities to drive real-time data insights to attendees was phenomenal. I was so pleased to gain positive feedback and see the excitement Movetru is generating within the industry.   Summer went by so quick - I can’t wait to share the exciting things we have coming up this season! Andrea Sinclair Tabitha Luxmoore-Styles Chloë Michelle Foden Hailey Eustace Dan O'Brien Saktish Ganesh