1 Million InvestHers

Women Entrepreneurs should be equal players in the economy. Yet...

• Over the past 30 years, women entrepreneurs only received 2% of Venture Capital
• The World Economic Forum says it will take 257 years for women to reach economic equality
• Research shows that female-founded businesses give a higher return on investment with less money invested.
• Investing in women entrepreneurs could add $5 Trillion to the Global Economy, and 6% to Global GDP!​

Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Can't Wait.

To help speed things up, Global Invest Her has launched the 1 Million InvestHers Campaign with this objective:

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​About the 1 Million InvestHers Movement

In early March 2020, just before Covid-19 lockdown, Anne Ravanona, Founder & CEO of Global Invest Her, had the privilege of being invited to a private lunch with President Macron and several other Gender Equality dignitaries, where she presented her plans for the #1MillionInvestHers campaign as well as her suggestions on how to improve access to capital for women entrepreneurs.

We commit to these actions as part of our commitments to the Generation Equality Forum 2021,  in support of SDGs 5 and 8.

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What's an InvestHer?

During her 2015 TEDx talk, our founder, Anne Ravanona shared the Oxford dictionary definition of the word INVEST:

"An act of devoting time, money, or energy to a particular undertaking, with the expectation of a worthwhile result”

Our definition of an INVESTHER is:

" Someone who devotes TIME, ENERGY OR MONEY to  to help women entrepreneurs, grow their business and get funded  
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OR

" A woman entrepreneur who devotes her time, energy, and creativity towards a problem worth solving". 

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Take Action! - Become an InvestHer

Together we can shorten the timeline, but we need everyone’s help to do it.
​Here’s what you can do.

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You are a

FOUNDER

BUILD THE CHANGE

CONSUMER

BUY THE CHANGE

INVESTOR

FUND THE CHANGE

How to Get Involved 

Here are some easy ways you can get involved. 

Consumers

• Buy from great female founded companies from InvestHer Directory  ! Check out their products & services!
• Promote these fabulous female founders from the Directory! Use your power! Just click on any company profile you like, find their socials and follow/like/share to help them get more visibility!
• ​Help spread the word about our movement on social media and across your networks
• Subscribe to our Newsletter to get updates about female founders and funding!
• Write an article, blogpost, tweet about our 1M InvestHers movement and share our website, using #1MInvestHers @globalinvesther (twitter, insta)
• ​Follow us on social and re-share our posts!

Corporates

• Sponsor Global Invest Her events, products, services, research to help us empower more female founders​ to reach our 1M InvestHers Goal by 2030 (SDGs 5 & 8)
• Speak at one of our virtual summits / on InvestHer Podcast (for funded female founders, investors, funding ecosystem players)
• Sponsor our Newsletter and Subscribe to get updates about female founders and funding!
• ​Follow us on social and re-share our posts!

Investors

• Make a commitment to investing in a female-founded (or co-founded) company as an investor
• Take part in our VC Landscape Survey or Angel Investor Survey
• ​Be part of InvestHer office hours (for investors who want access to great female founder dealflow)
• Speak at one of our virtual summits- contact us
• Be a guest on InvestHer Podcast to share your knowledge and funding tips with female founders. Contact us
• Subscribe to our Newsletter to get updates about female founders and funding!​ Special Investor-only newsletter coming soon!
• ​Follow us on social and re-share our posts!

Ecosystem Partners

Accelerators, Business Schools, Women Entrepreneur Associations, Government bodies, NGOs...

• Partner with us to offer products and services to help us support more women entrepreneurs​
• Sponsor Global Invest Her events, products, services, research to help us empower more female founders​ 
• Mentor 1 woman entrepreneur pro-bono/year- share your advice, contacts and wisdom to help her grow her business
• Subscribe to our Newsletter to get updates about female founders and funding and share with your networks!
• ​Follow us and Amplify our posts on social media!

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Meet Our First Partners  

Investors

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Ecosystem Partners

Research Partners

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Service Partners

Dr Anette Broløs

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Become a Partner

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Global InvestHer Commitments: TELL, TRAIN,TRACK

• TELL:
  • ​Showcase great global businesses founded by women via our global ​InvestHer Directory, so more consumers and investors can find and fund them
  • Put the spotlight on great investors who are funding women entrepreneurs through BoostHer Biz virtual summits
  • Show trailblazing women entrepreneurs and investors so more women and girls 'see what you can be'.

• TRAIN:
  • Women entrepreneurs on how to get funded via our InvestHer Academy online courses and masterclasses & InvestHer Community
  • Investors on how to increase diversity in their portfolio pipeline and reduce their own bias towards women entrepreneurs
  • Raise awareness of the general public about the $1.7 Trillion Funding Gap, and encourage people to learn more via our InvestHer Podcast.
  • Carry out Research on Angel Investing and increasing Gender Diversity in VC with our research partners and publish the reports.

• TRACK:
  • ​​Track the number of women entrepreneurs we help get funded both directly and with the help of our committed InvestHer Partners
  • Track the number of VCs who commit to and actually start to invest in female founders through working with us all via our Commitment Tracker
  • Track the amount of money raised by those funded women entrepreneurs, per region, sector and stage and share the impact transparently.

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