Tessa Clarke

Environmental Sustainability Women Empowerment

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Tessa Clarke is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO, a free app that has been widely recognised by the United Nations, which highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” for the world, and Vivatech, awarded OLIO as the"Next European Unicorn".

Tessa Clarke

Mar 24 2022

Female founders need money, not more mentoring

Illuminem Voices

Environmental Sustainability · Women Empowerment

In February it was announced that 43 of the good and the great from the VC world — with a collective £900bn in assets under management — are launching a new mentoring programme to tackle the persistent underinvestment in female founders. An initiative to be applauded given that at last count female founders secured just 1.1% of all VC investment in Europe. With the odds so staunchly stacked against us, we absolutely do need all the support we can get to help us figure out how to play the game and win.