Lauren Schaefer

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.

We’re the power behind the forward-thinkers, future-makers and leap-takers. We partner with innovators and investors in the UK, US, Israel, Hong Kong, Europe, Australia & New Zealand, India and Singapore, helping them ignite the bold ideas that reshape our world. We offer flexible banking solutions for start-ups, scale-ups, growth businesses, investors and those working towards IPO. Whether it’s comprehensive banking, managing cashflow, plans for buyouts or Global Funds Banking, we power ideas at every stage of their journey. From the first-time founders to the funds that back them and everything in between. Here’s to never standing still. Were proud to accelerate growth for tech and life science businesses, create meaningful connections and open a world of global opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.

Viola Credit is a global credit asset manager with over $4 billion in AUM focused on supporting the growth of the innovation economy through asset-based lending (ABL) solutions and growth capital to best-in-class FinTech, PropTech, and InsurTech companies that are disrupting traditional financial markets. Viola Credit has completed over $3 billion of asset-based lending transactions with footprint across the U.S, U.K, Western Europe, and Australia. It is part of the Viola Group, a leading technology investment house with over $6.5 billion in assets under management and deep domain expertise in financial services

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.

We’re the power behind the forward-thinkers, future-makers and leap-takers. We partner with innovators and investors in the UK, US, Israel, Hong Kong, Europe, Australia & New Zealand, India and Singapore, helping them ignite the bold ideas that reshape our world. We offer flexible banking solutions for start-ups, scale-ups, growth businesses, investors and those working towards IPO. Whether it’s comprehensive banking, managing cashflow, plans for buyouts or Global Funds Banking, we power ideas at every stage of their journey. From the first-time founders to the funds that back them and everything in between. Here’s to never standing still. Were proud to accelerate growth for tech and life science businesses, create meaningful connections and open a world of global opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial and private banking to individuals and companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, venture capital and premium wine industries. SVB operates in centers of innovation throughout the United States, serving the unique needs of its dynamic clients with deep sector expertise, insights and connections. SVBs parent company, First Citizens Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets. First Citizens Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at svb.com. Please contact client service at https://www.svb.com/client-service/help-desk/ for all account questions. To ensure your information is secure, please do not include any personal account information in posts or messages. Please visit https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/ if you are interested in a career at SVB. Comments are moderated and will be removed if they are off-topic or abusive. Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, as well as the other divisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates of First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company (together, SVB), are U.S. financial institutions and provide products and services to non-U.S. clients on a cross-border basis from the United States of America. SVB is not licensed or regulated as a bank or any other type of financial institution outside of the United States of America. Please review our International Disclosures for more information: https://www.svb.com/international-disclosures/