Peer-2-Peer conversations and support for women VCs on the Path to Partnership, whilst staying connected to the female founder community.
2021-2024
The JV Network launched in May 2021, as a third space for both female entrepreneurs and investors. Since then we have built a female founder & investor (Slack) community of over 250 women, and have hosted over 20 events. These events were both informal and educational, around a variety of topics such as angel investing, MVP to fundraising, SEIS/EIS, finetuning your pitch etc. This has been an amazing experience - no one can top the energy of 200 ambitious women in 1 room! However, it’s important to keep innovating and constantly ask ourselves ‘is this truly moving the needle?’. And ultimately: ‘How much money has moved hands? , as we’re all trying to improve those horrid funding stats that haven’t moved at all for the past few years.
Having attended some conversations around the Invest in Women Code, speaking to peer female VCs, to women founders and leaders of other female founder communities, 2 things became clear:
JV P2P - For Investors
Peer-2-Peer conversations and support for women VCs on the Path to Partnership.
We’re pivoting to an female investor only, peer-2-peer cohort approach, with a senior advisory board attached to it. Applications for Cohort 1 will open shortly. More information here:
JV 2.0 - For Founders
We’re committed to getting more women on the IC, and more women pitching to the IC.
Therefore we will still keep strong ties with our female founder community, by organising bi-monthly ‘focus’ events in collaboration with VC funds and female founder communities like Female Founders Rise. For each event, we will bring 10 female founders and 10 VCs together at a VC fund’s office. Every event will have a different sector and stage focus, and attending founders and VCs need to operate within that specific stage and sector. The guestlist will be curated by the JV and the co-hosting fund/community.
Calendar Q4 2024