Assisting Girls & Women Raise Venture Capital

Canada, less than 4% of venture capital funds are invested in women-led companies. It is considered to be the largest tangible gender gap – period.
Investoready is an online program of support for girls and women seeking to raise venture capital finance. Investoready is a learning, practice and feedback Console for women to assess their abilities in the all-important Question and Answer (Q&A) sessions with investors. The Q&A period of investor meetings is where the decision to provide finance will be ascertained. These girls and women are generally technology entrepreneurs, those who have innovations that are scaleable. As a highly science-backed program founded on world-renowned research, the viability and efficacy of Investoready’s training sessions and Console have already been validated with incubators, accelerators, entrepreneurship centres and venture capitalists. The project will involve a team of 4 students who will collaborate on the technology and programming launch, developing, deploying, collecting feedback from the first cohort of 80 participants, and integrating aspects of client feedback into the product.

Faculty Supervisor:

Chantal Hervieux;Claudia De Fuentes;May Chung;Vurain Tabvuma

Student:

Partner:

Investoready VC

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Wholesale trade

University:

Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University; Saint Mary's University

Program: