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.

$🧭 The numbers alone haven’t changed anything.We know the gap. Same ambition, same numbers, a fraction of the funding.Sam...$

06/11/2026

🧭 The numbers alone haven’t changed anything.

We know the gap. Same ambition, same numbers, a fraction of the funding.

Same mission: fairer access to funding for female and underrepresented founders.

So this year, the Funding Focus Event goes deeper into the human side of it.

In the room:

♦️ The human side of funding: showing up in rooms not built for you
♦️ Talks on authenticity and what women carry to compete
♦️ Practical ways to lead on your own terms
♦️ An announcement on the day. You’ll want to be there

Which one would you want most? Tell us below.

🎫 Get your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/funding-focus-event-2026-tickets-2003454042974

05/11/2026

📊 More decks. Less funding. Every year since 2008.

Women submit more decks than the funding they get back.

Men get more funding than the decks they submit.

Same system. Different outcomes.

Mixed gender teams? Improving. All-female teams? Stuck.

🔑 Here’s the third piece.

Women tend to project conservatively. VCs want moonshots.

Conservative feels responsible. To an investor, it looks small.

Same pitch. Different numbers. Different outcome.

Don’t shrink your projections to seem credible. Be ambitious. Be specific.

Let the numbers match the vision.

🎤 I covered this in my TEDx talk. Over 3 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGN2Yp8_fY&t=205s

03/11/2026

🔓 Who’s still locked out of funding?

Up to £250bn.

That’s what the Alison Rose Review found the UK economy could gain if women started and scaled businesses at the same rate as men.

The talent is there. The access isn’t.

Funding Focus is one room for founders, investors and allies, built to change that.

➡️ Swipe for the number, the reason and the fix.

25 November, 1pm to 5pm, then drinks until 6pm, Eversheds Sutherland, London EC2V 7WS

🪑 100 seats. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/funding-focus-event-2026-tickets-2003454042974

02/11/2026

🚨 Three words every founder selling a business needs to understand.

Financial. Legal. Commercial.

That’s what due diligence looks like from the inside.

📑 The accountants crawl over three years of numbers. Tax filings. Cash flow. Earnings patterns. Every correspondence with the tax authorities.

The lawyers examine every contract. Customers. Employees. Suppliers. Any lawsuits threatened, pending, or resolved.

Then comes commercial due diligence. Who are the customers? How stable is the revenue? Where are the risks?

🔍 Most founders aren’t ready for this level of scrutiny.

Not because their business is bad. Because they’ve never had to present it through a buyer’s lens.

The businesses that sail through due diligence aren’t perfect. They’re prepared.

⚡ Find out in you're Funding-Ready: https://areyoufundingready.scoreapp.com/

30/10/2026

📢 “I’m a man. Can I come?”

It’s the question we keep getting.

Short answer: absolutely.

This isn’t a room for women talking to women. It’s a room for anyone who knows backing overlooked founders is strategy, not charity.

Who’s in it:
🔸 Female founders raising, or looking to start
🔸 Diverse founders tired of proving they belong in the room
🔸 Investors who want first access to an overlooked market
🔸 Male allies backing women, the returns speak for themselves
🔸 Advisors and lenders who want to get funding right, not just fast

📆 25 November, 1pm to 5pm with drinks and networking until 6pm
📍 The Auditorium, Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS

Which one are you? Founder, investor, ally, advisor.

Tell us below.

🎫 Get your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/funding-focus-event-2026-tickets-2003454042974

28/10/2026

🎟️ Want a seat at Funding Focus?

Tickets are now live.

One room. Founders, investors and allies, closing the funding gap.

📆 25 November, 1pm to 5pm, with drinks until 6pm
📍 The Auditorium, Eversheds Sutherland, London

£10 General entry or £25 Supporter, with a printed copy of Funded Female Founders for every attendee. All profits go to empowering women to start their own businesses.

Only 100 seats, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.

🎫 Get your ticket here: https://fundingfocus2026.eventbrite.co.uk

27/10/2026

📖 All female teams submitted around 5% of pitch decks in the UK.

They received less than 1% of venture capital funding.

That statistic stopped David B Horne in his tracks in 2019. A woman at an event asked him why so little funding went to female founders. He told her he had no idea but would find out.

What he found led to five years of research, a book, and a TEDx talk viewed more than three million times.

David recently joined Joe Gregory on Book the Business to talk about how writing Funded Female Founders helped define not just communicate his thinking on the gender funding gap, and what it takes to build a genuine platform around a cause that matters.

The data is stark. The system is broken. And the conversation is still not loud enough.

▶️ Full episode link in the first comment.

26/10/2026

📬 Joined the Funding Focus Event waitlist? Check your inbox.

Your 48 hours early access is open now, until Wednesday 28 October at 10am.

Can’t find the email? Check your junk folder, or reply to ask us.

Not on the list? Tickets go live to everyone this Wednesday at 10am.

Thank you for being part of this.

We can’t wait to see you on 25 November.

23/10/2026

👀 Did you make the Funding Focus waitlist?

It’s now closed, and thank you to everyone who joined.

𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁? Keep an eye on your inbox on Monday 26 October, when your 48 hours early access opens.

𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁? Tickets go live to everyone on Wednesday 28 October at 10am. Follow Funding Focus so you don’t miss the launch.

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