Podcasts Business WHERE’S THE FUNDING? How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1

How Gender Bias in the Funding Ecosystem Keeps Good Businesses Out of the Market with Aysha Tegally S3 Ep. 1

Published: Jan. 7, 2022, 1 p.m.

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Aysha Tegally is the co-founder of Future Females Invest and founder of FFI Angels. Future Females Invest is changing systems by providing consultancy, training, access to investment and markets, ecosystem support to African women entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs, and gender empowerment advocates in public and private sector organizations.

What you will learn from this episode:

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  • Mentorship is nice but women need access to capital to complement that in order for them to make the financial investments needed to grow their business.
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  • Women themselves can act as barriers to accessing investment by not always having the confidence to ask for what they want or they feel the need to over-prepare before they make an ask compared to their male counterparts.
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  • A system change is needed that includes more women in decision-making roles such as women on the boards of funds and in C-suites and senior positions where decisions are made and also as investors to improve the ecosystem for more women to access capital.
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  • Women angel investors have a unique role to play by investing in more business sectors where you tend to find more women entrepreneurs such as in the beauty industry and the baby market for example.
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  • Support that women angel investors provide goes beyond funding to help women founders connect to other sources of capital and networks that can help them and their businesses to grow.
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  • Get in touch with FFI Angels if you are an African female founder (or a non-Africa-based female founder with a business that serves the African market) looking for seed capital, business, and moral support to help you grow and scale your business.
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