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Who is Im\\xe8ne Maharzi? \\xa0

Im\\xe8ne Maharzi is a French based professional, who started working in the French Private Equity space 18 years ago. She started out her career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen, and then became an investment professional with Butler Capital Partners where she had the opportunity to explore several sectors, geographies, investment sizes and targets. \\xa0

In 2013, she created Butterfly Partners, a company which invests time and money in start-ups and subject matter experts which demonstrate a social or environmental positive impact. In 2014-2015, she took over a majority stake in a school transportation company dedicated to exceptional children with autism, Down syndrome, etc.. As the CEO, she transformed a 15-year family business into a social business, with a resolution to trigger a positive social impact on both employees and beneficiaries, through a strong user-centric, quality-driven approach. \\xa0

As she moved through her professional career, she noticed that there was a problem in getting access to capital for female founders that she saw resulted in a massive waste of both economic and social value. This led her to create OwnYourCash this year. OwnYourCash is an educational platform, both online and IRL, to train women (and men) to become Business Angels. By opening a conversation on biases, gender-lens investing and impact investing, OwnYourCash will contribute to smoother access to capital for projects co-founded by women.

With OwnYourCash, she is committed to training 2000 new female business angels by the year 2020. \\xa0The mission of OwnYourCash is to foster economic independence for women leading to true male/female equality

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Show Highlights

Im\\xe8ne shared her professional journey into private equity and ultimately starting her new company OwnYourCash to educate and train 2000 new female business angels by 2020. \\xa0\\xa0
Im\\xe8ne talks about social entrepreneurship in France\\u2026creating a social return and a financial return. \\xa0\\xa0
Im\\xe8ne shares the details on OwnYourCash and how the time is right to educate new business angels and create a new business angle network and how the change in the tax laws in France this year will be a positive thing for new business angels.
If Im\\xe8ne had a magic wand, she would make the \\u2018plain vanilla\\u2019 investing be impact investing with everyone going after economic return along with a social or environmental return. \\xa0\\xa0


Terri\\u2019s Key Takeaway

Investing is an information business. \\xa0



References in the Podcast

Techstars Paris: \\xa0https://www.techstars.com/programs/paris-program/
OwnYourCash: http://site-1317096-1533-8422.strikingly.com/
Arlan Hamilton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlanhamilton/
Backstage Capital: \\xa0https://backstagecapital.com/
Shannon Grant: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-grant-6164139/
Serendipity: \\xa0https://www.guildserendipity.com/
Sephora Stands Accelerate: \\xa0https://www.sephorastands.com/accelerate/
Nancy Hayes: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhayes2/
Maxie Koven: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxine-kozler-koven-7573633/
Shira Ronen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shira-ronen-590297/
Odile Roujol: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/odileroujol/
Suzanne Andrews: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannemandrews/
Linnea Roberts: \\xa0https://www.linkedin.com/in/linnea-roberts-10078570/
Kezia Wright: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kezia-wright-bb3755127/
Amaranthine Partners: https://amaranthine.vc/


Contact

Im\\xe8ne can be reached via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/im%C3%A8ne-maharzi-439294/.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:\\u202f https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.\\u202f

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