Accelerate to Excel: why does only 2% of investment reach female founders?

The Entrepreneur’s Network/Beauhurst Accelerate to Excel report highlights the woeful 2% of investment reaching female founders.

Female-founded businesses often last longer and are more successful than those of their male counterparts. The question is: why does this remain the status quo? Like Tessa Clarke of Olio featured in The Observer, Giovanna Forte our CEO has frequently encountered the same unedifying “wall of men”.

Forte Medical seeks £1m investment to bring a gold standard to women’s urological and prenatal health in healthcare and home settings; in the three years since Covid removed turnover and investment interest, Forte Medical has reshaped, now ready to relaunch and transform routine healthcare for women, tackle rising cases of uro-sepsis and urology-related antimicrobial resistance.

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