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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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