
She’s Next Talks with Emilia Mamajova, Ewa Chronowska, and Viktorija Trimbel
Across emerging Europe, almost 2.2 million women entrepreneurs form a vibrant community, yet they face profound disparities when it comes to securing venture funding.
According to recent figures shared during a panel discussion moderated by Andrew Wrobel, Chief Reinvention Officer at Reinvantage, women-founded businesses receive a meagre one per cent of venture capital. Mixed-gender teams fare slightly better at five per cent, while all-male teams dominate with 94 per cent of the total funding pie.
Emilia Mamajowa is a founding partner at Espira Investments, a private equity fund, which has a gender-smart investment strategy. Before founding Espira, she says that the funds she worked for made “very few” investments in women-led or gender-diverse firms.
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