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Put women at the heart of a post-pandemic tech boom
Put women at the heart of a post-pandemic tech boom

In a op-ed printed by The Telegraph, Merian Venture’s founder Alexsis de Raadt St James and Imperial College London President Alice Gast, together argue that supporting women in tech will be essential to recovery from the pandemic. They present arguments for business, governments, and universities to step up and do more to drive change. “Women have been disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic. This is in part because they are underrepresented in industries that have continued to grow.”…

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Merian VenturesMarta Bulaichmerian ventures, alexsis de raadt st james, imperial college london, alice gast, female-led technology, pandemic, WE Innovate, lack of diversity
Today’s Students Want to Become Startup Founders — and 40% are Female Founders
Today’s Students Want to Become Startup Founders — and 40% are Female Founders

Students aren’t quite as keen as they used to be to become lawyers and bankers and management consultants; they want to become founders instead. A quarter of UK students now run — or plan to start a company — while at university. Collectively, they raked in £1bn in 2019; a 32% increase on 2016. Four in ten of these startup teams are led by female founders.

To support this trend, universities now have accelerators, incubators and other programmes to encourage and support tech startups — and Ana Bakshi, director of Oxford’s entrepreneur centre Oxford Foundry, recently called for more to jump on the bandwagon to stimulate the UK’s economic recovery.

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Merian VenturesMarta Bulaichmerian ventures, female founders, oxford, cambridge, bame, student founders, imperial college london