Mirit Lugassi

We lead investments in pre-seed and seed stage B2B software companies that transform how business is done. We support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy. Apply for funding here: bit.ly/laconiapitch

We lead investments in pre-seed and seed stage B2B software companies that transform how business is done. We support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy. Apply for funding here: bit.ly/laconiapitch

Included VC is a Fellowship for individuals from diverse communities which are often overlooked or excluded, providing access, opportunity and knowledge into the world of Venture Capital. 76% of Included VC graduates actively seeking roles in VC, secured investment roles at VC funds within 3 months of graduating. This fully-funded 5 month fellowship comprises: masterclasses, mentoring, foundational learning, simulation investment committees and in-person retreats. Included VC Fellows all share a passion for entrepreneurialism, technology, and creating significant impact through venture investing. They share our belief that entrepreneurs and the VCs that invest in them can come from anywhere: any gender, ethnicity, geography, upbringing, age, neurodiversity, disability or belief system. The Included VC mission is to change the face of the VC industry, dramatically increasing diversity and maximising fund success by transforming networks, staff, dealflow and investments. We are committed to creating effective multi-generational change. Included VC is supported by an international consortium of Venture Capital Partners and Sponsors including: BITKRAFT, HSBC Ventures, Creandum, Daphni, Enern, K Fund, Mangrove Capital, M12 - Microsofts Venture Fund, Mouro Capital, Notion Capital, Seedcamp and Wilson Sonsini. They will receive training and exposure to the world of VC, with 1-1 mentoring, expert masterclasses, case study learning and dealflow deep dives, along with 2 European Summits. Applications now open!

The Center for Partnership Systems (CPS) is dedicated to building economic and social systems that support both human beings and the planet through its research, education, and resources. The Partnerism Movement is a CPS initiative to accelerate the shift from Domination to Partnership Systems based on an economic model that values caring, equity, shared prosperity, and nature. Riane Eisler, founder and president of CPS, has been the most iconic pioneer in the field of gender equity for the past six decades. She continues to build on her best-selling book, The Chalice and the Blade (now in its 56th printing in 25 languages) that re-examines thirty thousand years of human culture. Eisler showed that for millennia human societies were structured as “Partnership Systems” where our capacity to give, nurture, and sustain life was celebrated as divine; women and men shared power; and a spirit of mutual care and responsibility prevailed. This ancient social configuration, which existed before domination prevailed, helps us understand that we don’t have to accept conquest, violence, and abuse as “human nature.” Eisler’s work reveals four essential and interconnected cornerstones needed to move away from the inherited legacy of domination and toward the Partnership Systems required for humans to thrive on a healthy planet: - Family and Childhood Relations - Gender Relations - Economic Relations - Narratives and Language Riane is not only a renowned author but a Holocaust survivor, legal scholar, economist, futurist, social scientist and global thought leader. Her culminating work is featured in her latest book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shapes Our Lives, Brains and Future."(Oxford University Press, 2019).

A consulting agency dedicated to creating space for women in the investing world.