Kimberly Gire

Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust - no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the new gold standard for digital identity - the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, our solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic.

GG Ventures - Investing in The Female Performance Stack A $1T+ opportunity unfolding at the intersection of health, sports, and longevity - reimagined through a female lens. We’re not indexing the category, we’re defining it. GG Ventures is Europe’s first and only investment platform focused on female performance. Investing since 2021, we’re now raising a $100M institutional Fund II to back AI-native, science-led companies reengineering the female health stack from the ground up. We invest at the inflection point—between Seed and Series A, where founder–market fit, data moats, and machine learning DNA converge to create exponential, compounding value. We partner with founders of any gender building from first principles, with AI as the engine. We back AI-native companies with proprietary data flywheels, predictive architectures that improve autonomously with every use, regulatory-grade infrastructure aligned with payers and globally compliant from day one, and defensible, scalable IP. Where we play: 1. Sports, Strength & Wellness 2. Next Gen Reproductivity 3. Longevity & Chronic Diseases 4. 7 Female Cancers 5. Mental Health / HealthTech Products & Services We leverage elite women’s sport as a high-velocity distribution engine—fueling access, adoption, and authenticity at scale. This isn’t niche. This is foundational to global health, economic resilience, and generational continuity. We’re not just backing the future of female performance, we’re engineering it.

EOF is a global initiative transforming how education and skills are financed and delivered. We partner with governments, donors, investors, and implementers to make education systems more effective, equitable, and accountable. Through our outcomes partnership model, funding is tied to measurable results, aligning incentives across governments, funders, investors and delivery partners around shared outcomes and public value. Since launching the first fund in Sierra Leone in 2022, and across five new outcomes partnerships in Tunisia, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, EOF has mobilised over $130 million, improving education and skills opportunities for more than half a million children and youth. Through this growing portfolio, EOF is helping build a global movement for smarter, outcomes-driven public spending in education and employment – unlocking potential and improving lives at scale.

Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust - no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the new gold standard for digital identity - the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, our solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic.

Women work well together. They value a sense of community. They get things done. Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy grew out of the need to create a space for this uniquely inclusive community of women leaders, who are investing their skills, experience, funding, and support to unlock best thinking, impact, resources, and strategic dialogue with an unapologetic, solutions-based focus. Leveraging our unique platform and the global reach of our community of women leaders, we design, curate, connect and deliver on global issues affecting marginalized and vulnerable communities - enabling and accelerating ‘real action.’ Follow us on Twitter: @GlobalWomenLdrs

500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.