Funding Focus

Name: Funding Focus
Address: 8 Ainsdale Road, London, W51JX, GB
Telephone: +447717742134

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Funding Focus is a social enterprise and educational platform which aims to blaze an enduring path for diverse female founders. We want to change this.

Funding Focus aims to blaze an enduring path for female and diverse founders and address the uneven playing field that women and diverse entrepreneurs receive from venture capital. The inaugural conference took place on 25 November 2019 at London Stock Exchange and brought together successful female entrepreneurs who have raised funding, enterprising minds, investment gurus and sector experts. Venture capital investment in start-ups with female founders is increasing but progress is very slow. At current rates, it will take 25 years (2045) for all-female teams to reach even 10% of all deals. By radically transforming the flow of funding for female-founded businesses, we can unleash a whole new stream of entrepreneurial activity to boost the UK’s economy.

03/09/2026

🎙️ The funding gap is not a pipeline problem.

It is a system problem.

David B Horne recently joined Faiz on the Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Show to talk about the barriers facing female founders, the practical realities of raising capital and what fairer funding actually looks like in practice.

The conversation covers the thinking behind Funding Focus, the data that sits behind the advocacy and the practical steps female and diverse founders can take to navigate a system that was not built with them in mind.

Worth listening to. Worth sharing.

🎧 Listen to the episode: https://www.guestsonair.com/episode/recUQ1F0Tug361FbQ/why-female-founders-still-get-less-than-2-of-the-funding-with-david-b-horne

31/08/2026

📩 FREE Newsletter: The Multiplier Effect

The weekly read for founder-led businesses serious about growth.

Written by David B Horne to give ambitious founders the insight, frameworks and thinking to scale from £1M to £10M+.

Takes two minutes to read. Worth far more than that.

📬 Subscribe here: https://resources.addthenmultiply.com/newsletter-signup

24/08/2026

🗞️ Most founders build. Few hand over.

Our founder David B Horne has spent the last few years doing exactly that.

After raising £120M+, completing 30+ transactions and building the FACE methodology from the ground up, David is now preparing for a different kind of growth.

Stepping into the Chair role.
Finding his successor as CEO.
And he has already made one decision about what that looks like.

That successor will be a woman. 🤝

Not as a gesture. As a deliberate choice that reflects everything ATM believes about leadership, access and what the next chapter of the business should stand for.

David B Horne is featured in Executives Diary Magazine.

The full piece is worth your time.

📖 Read the full feature here: https://lnkd.in/ezyc47YA

21/08/2026

🎁 FREE Book: Funded Female Founders

The funding strategy most female founders never hear about.

Written by David B. Horne to close the funding gap for underrepresented founders.

Takes two minutes to access. Worth far more than that.

📖 Claim your copy: https://resources.addthenmultiply.com/fff-book

18/08/2026

📊 Less than 2%. For 18 years straight.

All-female teams in the UK and Europe get less than 2% of VC funding.
In America, it's never broken through 3%.

Female founders are submitting 6 to 7% of pitch decks.
But getting 2 to 3% of the money.

Mixed gender teams fare slightly better. But the picture is still stark.
All-male teams submit 75% of the decks and take home more than 80% of the funding.

This isn't a one-year blip. This is 18 years of consistent data.

🔍 The pipeline isn't the problem.

Women are showing up.
They're pitching.
They're submitting decks.

The money just isn't flowing back.

That's why I started Funding Focus.
Not to highlight the gap.
But to help female founders close it.

It starts with knowing exactly where you stand before you walk into that room.

⚡ Find out in under a minute: https://areyoufundingready.scoreapp.com/

13/08/2026

🏆 Great at Winning Customers BUT TERRIBLE at Keeping Them?

We see it all the time.

The founder is brilliant at selling. They've had to be.

But the delivery? That's where it falls apart.

Customers won.
Customers lost.
Because nobody's looking after the bit in between.

🔧 My advice is always the same.

Go and find a fractional COO.
An operations manager.
Someone who lives and breathes delivery.

Because the last thing you want is to go to all the effort of winning customers and then lose them because the experience didn't match the promise.

As your business grows, you've got to invest in delivery just as much as you invest in sales.

📖 Get your copy of Add Then Multiply: https://resources.addthenmultiply.com/atm-book

11/08/2026

💡 Nobody cares about your idea.

They care about ex*****on.

Ideas are cheap.

Here's what investors actually want to see:

❓ The problem. What does your customer struggle with and how do you solve it.
👥 The team. It's the people who make it happen. Not the idea.
📈 The numbers. Losses early are fine. Years three to five better take off.
💰 The ask. How much do you want and where is it going. A simple pie chart will do.
🚪 The exit. Where is this heading. Be specific.

Miss any of these and you're not ready to pitch.

📖 Every one of them is covered in the book, Add Then Multiply: https://resources.addthenmultiply.com/atm-book

28/07/2026

🎙️ Three lessons from interviewing dozens of founders.

Ask for more money than you think you need.

Ask for it more often.

And don't undervalue your business using conservative forecasts.

Simple? Yes.

But almost every founder I meet makes at least one of these mistakes.

They raise just enough to survive instead of enough to scale.
They treat fundraising as a one-off event instead of an ongoing strategy.
And they walk into investor meetings with numbers that undersell their own potential.

🔑 Conservative forecasts feel safe.

But to an investor, they signal a founder who doesn't believe in their own business.

Be ambitious. Be credible. But never shrink yourself to seem sensible.

📖 The full story is in the book: resources.addthenmultiply.com/atm-book

23/07/2026

🎓 Three years experience versus thirty-five.

Who should be talking?

Every founder has been there. Early in their career. Full of confidence. Certain they've got the answers.

Then someone with decades of experience says: don't you think you should listen to me?

It stings. But it's usually right.

The confidence that gets a business off the ground is the same confidence that stops founders asking for help when they need it most.

The truly clever ones learn to take advice on board. Not to lose their edge. But to sharpen it with the experience of people who've already walked the path.

That's the difference between a founder who plateaus and one who scales.

That's exactly what we provide. Decades of financial and strategic experience so founders don't have to learn every lesson the hard way.

⚡ Find out where your business stands in under a minute: https://areyoufundingready.scoreapp.com/

21/07/2026

💔 The wake-up call nobody wants.

Our founder David B Horne experienced this firsthand.

In 2012, his father had an accident. Fell down a flight of stairs. Broke his neck. Never recovered.

David flew back to Vancouver. He was there when his father died.

It was the moment that changed everything. Not because the answer suddenly appeared. But because standing still was no longer an option.

⚡ What came after wasn't instant. It was a slow, deliberate rebuild.

One decision at a time, with foundations that he knew how to build.

That journey became Add Then Multiply. The book. The methodology. The business.

Every founder carries something that shaped how they lead. For David, it was this.

📖 The full story is in the book: https://resources.addthenmultiply.com/atm-book

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https://www.funding-focus.com/

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