This International Women’s Day, we’re looking at five women shaping the UK’s financial landscape through investment, philanthropy and innovation.
International Women’s Day is on March 8th every year. This year’s theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”, and to show our support, we’re looking at five women in business funding future of the UK.
Yvonne Bajela
An experienced venture capital investment professional and board member, Bajela started her career in investment banking, before switching to venture capital.
Bajela is a founding member of Impact X Capital, a £100m UK-based venture capital fund focused on underrepresented entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of Innovate Finance and is a member of the London Hub of Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum, a community of young people driving change.
Becky Holmes
Daughter of Bill Holmes, the founder of Radius, a transport software and technology company. Holmes works full-time for Langland Conservation, runs the family’s grant-making body, The Helvellyn Foundation, and is on the advisory board of the Environmental Funders Network.
Set up during the pandemic, the Helvellyn Foundation has donated more than £2 million to charities focusing on biodiversity in Britain and abroad.
Valerie Moran
In 2019, The Sunday Times Rich List named Moran the wealthiest Black woman in the UK. She is currently the founder and director of eCOMM Merchant Solutions, having previously sold her fintech company, PFS, in 2019.
In collaboration with Mastercard and the United Nations World Food Programme, Moran oversaw the donation of the equivalent of 200,000 school meals to children in Mali in West Africa and has supported Oxford’s Black Academic Futures scholarship programme.
Gemma Hallett
Hallett is a retired Welsh rugby union player who earned 35 caps for Wales. Since retirement, she’s been a Sky Sports pundit and commentator for the Women’s Six Nations.
Hallet founded miFuture, a social business that helps school leavers make informed decisions about digital careers, gain in-demand skills, and advocate for young people who choose not to attend university.
Nell Daly
New York native and former therapist, social worker and Fox News commentator, Daly pivoted to venture capitalism five years ago. After raising millions for startups and businesses, she founded Revenge Capital, a £50m fund to make British women big in business
Revenge Capital is an evergreen, nonpartisan, sector-agnostic, global impact fund that invests in overlooked founders: women, BAME, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled individuals, neurodiverse, anti-ageist, untraditionally educated and socio-economically disadvantaged.
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