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This week, we re-opened membership to our Breakthrough Labs online community for female founders, which you can access from the Community...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Aug 19
- 5 min
What's your story - and why is it worth telling?
Humans are programmed for story. That's one of the many things I've learned over the years from Jane Nash and Dan Milne , the directors...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Aug 12
- 2 min
Navigating the investment landscape: a guide for first-time founders
As a female founder in the tech start-up world, you're learning a million new skills at once. This includes navigating the murky waters...
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Lilian Santini
- Jul 24
- 2 min
Navigating Branding Challenges in the Tech Industry
This post is guest-authored by Lilian Santini, branding expert from The Copper Portico. Starting a tech startup immerses you in a vibrant...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jul 5
- 3 min
Is crowdfunding the way to go for female founders?
We talk a lot about how difficult it is for female founders to secure funding for their start-ups, and the academic research explaining...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Celebrating a Major Milestone
June 1st marked a significant milestone for us at Breakthrough Labs as we closed our waitlist, welcoming 88 remarkable female founders...
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Kristen Weatherby
- May 27
- 3 min
Welcome to your new home: the Breakthrough Labs community for female founders
You know how passionate we are at Breakthrough Labs about transforming the start-up world for women. That's why we are beyond excited to...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jan 10
- 3 min
Investment: the third pillar of Breakthrough Labs
In the past year, I have met scores of new people and have shared my vision for Breakthrough Labs. Many of you may be familiar with this...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Oct 3, 2023
- 2 min
What we have learned
Breakthrough Labs is all about using evidence, as we have discussed in this blog before. And as an organisation, we practice what we...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
With every end, a new beginning
This week we marked the end of the first cohort of the Breakthrough Labs accelerator with our first investor pitch day. This event was...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jun 13, 2023
- 2 min
Pitching for investment: giving up a piece of yourself
The objective of the Breakthrough Labs accelerator is to help more female founders get funding. It is at the heart of everything we do in...
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Kristen Weatherby
- May 18, 2023
- 2 min
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion
This is how I started my recent Breakthrough Labs workshop on the importance of research evidence to start-up founders. It's how my...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Apr 9, 2023
- 2 min
Together we can do so much
One of the key findings in the academic research around why female founders aren't getting funded is that women do not have access to the...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Mar 14, 2023
- 2 min
The first cohort: finding our story
Almost exactly a year after I first verbalised the ideas that would soon form themselves into Breakthrough Labs, our first group of...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Feb 14, 2023
- 2 min
Resilience: Every start-up founder's friend
What is one piece of advice you'd offer to other female founders based on what you have learned? This is one of the questions I asked the...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Jan 19, 2023
- 3 min
Gender homophily: Yet another strike against female founders
Do you remember that old saying, "birds of a feather flock together"? As it turns out, this saying is all about the social theory of...
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Kristen Weatherby
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
Why aren't female founders getting funded? Sometimes it's a lack of fit.
Before founding Breakthrough Labs, I worked at three accelerators for edtech start-ups, in the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Americas....
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Kristen Weatherby
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to Breakthrough Labs
There’s a big problem, and everyone seems to know about it. Female entrepreneurs aren’t being funded at anywhere near the same level as...
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