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HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.

EnterpriseAlumni is the leading provider of alumni management software, empowering the alumni networks of top global companies, government and military organizations. Our platform accelerates recruiting, sales and marketing efforts by leveraging relationships with former employees. From medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, organizations choose EnterpriseAlumni to drive business value, foster community, and gain a competitive edge. Our platform activates, engages, and maintains commercial connectivity with a vast pool of alumni, seamlessly integrating with CRMs, HR platforms like Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle, ADP, and over 5,500 other enterprise applications.

DesignThinkers Academy is one of the leading ‘design driven’ Professional Training Institutes, represented in 25 countries and train, develop and facilitate creative multidisciplinary teams and communities to drive positive change. Design Thinking enables you to develop and deliver innovative ideas, change and solutions to complicated problems. It is an activity-based process with a strong emphasis on teamwork and co-creation. Our mission is to provide space and time for teams and individuals to be inspired and challenged, to ‘learn-by-doing’ and strengthen their ability for creative problem solving and help organizations build the necessary environment and mindset to kick-start bold innovation. Lets connect on www.designthinkersacademy.com

HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Did you know that employees with coach-like managers are eight times more likely to be highly engaged? (Source: Forrester) RunYourself is a pioneering prompt-driven, AI-assisted platform making it easy for managers to have effective coaching conversations. We blend expert coaching prompts on a spectrum of crucial topics with AI-powered support. This enables managers to have productive peer coaching conversations with other managers and more effective coaching, feedback, performance and career development conversations with their team members.

It takes more than capital to build real-world, cutting-edge technologies and companies that last. That’s why we commit the full power of our sector-focused investment teams and global network of customers, talent, top-tier follow-on investors, industry leaders, and experienced entrepreneurs to help you scale smarter and faster. With offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Munich, and Abu Dhabi, we are on the ground across EMEA, helping our portfolio companies own their local markets and expand globally. From pre-seed to exit, we partner with bold founders to build category-defining, lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Wayflyer (Ireland), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (US), GoStudent (Austria), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) – together. Speedinvest: The Power of More.

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.