Sandra Steving Villegas

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.

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.

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.

We work with leaders at major corporations to identify and deliver ambitious growth for their businesses. Our team of entrepreneurial consultants brings a start-up mindset, commercial rigour and access to our unrivalled venture network to create tangible Entrepreneurial Growth strategies for our FTSE100 clients. We originated within Founders Forum, a global network of the world’s most inspirational founders, global leaders, senior investors and disruptive rising stars, and are now building an exciting new chapter as part of Accenture, a recognised Leader in Innovation Consulting Services, scaling our capabilities and working with partners in the Innovation Practice to deliver exceptional value from growth.

From their first commission in 1985, a high-rise residential building in Shanghai, partners Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown have challenged themselves and their associates with the widest possible range of project types and scales, across a global span of cultures and locales, knowing that each diverse experience informs the next and provides unique insights. Whether the project is a table, a room, a high-rise, or an urban plan, attention to the points of intimate, tactile engagement between the individual and the larger built environment is critical to their approach. With the additional realization that there are no natural discontinuities between inside and out, the firm delights in exterior forms emerging from within, and interior spaces forming externally.