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Celebrating wins for women this week!
I was very proud to see that in the The 2023 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index, compiled with Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN), London beat both New York and San Francisco as a city that incubates female founders! The city beat 55 other cities to be ranked as number 1 for its ability to attract and foster female entrepreneurs.
We do have wonderful initiatives in our country that support and work to advance women in business.
For example, Telegraph Media Group and NatWest’s 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch list is an initiative that shines a spotlight on some of the most exciting female-founded businesses in the UK. Those who make it to the list earn many benefits including mentorship, media coverage and enterprise health check, a £10,000 investment from NatWest and more,
NatWest CEO and judge Alison Rose, said that all entrants shared the following — a strong commitment to innovation, a social purpose and scaling up, and that their ambition and resilience of the business owners came across strongly in the applications.
Rose is no stranger to supporting the advancement of women. In 2019, she was commissioned by the Uk Treasury Department to lead an independent review of female entrepreneurship. Her report, The Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, shed renewed light on the barriers…
