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Push to encourage women to invest in scale up businesses

04 Aug 2025

Leandros Kalisperas, Chief Investment Officer at British Business Bank writes about how the Bank is championing diversity within the VC industry and how up to £250 billion of new value could be added to the UK economy if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as men.


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Interesting article about an initiative by the British Business Bank to encourage more women to invest in scale up businesses, citing research showing that there is a correlation between female representation at venture capital firms and how much they invest in female-led businesses.

 

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