1 Million InvestHers

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

Over the past 30 years, women entrepreneurs only received 2.8% 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:

About the Campaign

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.

Anne Ravanona, Founder & CEO with President Emmanuel Macron of France, 2nd March 2020

Global InvestHer Commitments:

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.

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 in great investors who are funding women entrepreneurs
- Show trailblazing women entrepreneurs and investors so more women and girls 'see what you can be'.

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
- Track the amount of money raised by those funded women entrepreneurs, per region, sector and stage and share the impact transparently.

What's an InvestHer?

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

Anne Ravanona giving her TEDx talk in 2015

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

To us, an INVESTHER is:

" Someone who devotes time, energy or money to women entrepreneurs, to help them grow their business and get funded

OR

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