Emma Blackburn

Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.

Stanford is a place of discovery, creativity and innovation located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Dedicated to our founding mission—benefitting society through research and education—we are working toward a sustainable future, accelerating the impact of research with external partners, catalyzing discoveries about ourselves and our world, and educating students as global citizens. Our main campus, which welcomed its first class in 1891, is now home to 650+ student organizations, 36 varsity athletic teams, 20 libraries, 21 living Nobel laureates, 18 interdisciplinary research institutes, seven schools, and a vibrant arts scene. More than 9,000 graduate students and 7,000 undergraduates pursue studies at Stanford each year. Our financial aid program, one of the most generous in the nation, makes it possible for any admitted undergraduate to attend without taking on student debt.

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.

Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.

7BC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm distinguished by its global network. We believe in true partnership with our portfolio companies, assisting founders to the best of our abilities and creating a global community of top-performing VC funds. Our diverse network aims to strategically support across all stages of development, including but not limited to: driving revenue growth, securing customers & partners, addressing technological challenges, raising follow-on rounds, accessing talent, and facilitating successful high-growth transformations. For 10+ years, weve been primarily investing at Late-Stage Seed and Series A rounds into transformative software companies. Additionally, we extend support to our existing portfolio companies via SPVs funded exclusively from our LPs up to exit. Our name ‘7BC’ (borderless continents) reflects our global reach, with Limited Partner investors from six continents, including key tech corridors across the U.S., Canada, South America, the UK, Nordics, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.

Stanford is a place of discovery, creativity and innovation located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Dedicated to our founding mission—benefitting society through research and education—we are working toward a sustainable future, accelerating the impact of research with external partners, catalyzing discoveries about ourselves and our world, and educating students as global citizens. Our main campus, which welcomed its first class in 1891, is now home to 650+ student organizations, 36 varsity athletic teams, 20 libraries, 21 living Nobel laureates, 18 interdisciplinary research institutes, seven schools, and a vibrant arts scene. More than 9,000 graduate students and 7,000 undergraduates pursue studies at Stanford each year. Our financial aid program, one of the most generous in the nation, makes it possible for any admitted undergraduate to attend without taking on student debt.

Ascension is an early-stage venture capital firm built and managed by exited operators and entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Since 2015, Ascension has invested in 150+ start-ups across its (S)EIS & Institutional Funds – our specialist approach and extensive sector reach allow us to identify and scale pioneering tech enterprises. With over £83m under management and twelve exits, Ascension is the most active VC in London over the past decade (Beauhurst) and is UKBAAs Seed VC of the Year in 2022. Ascension is particularly focused on backing impact businesses leveraging the power of technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.