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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥?🥳 Why we should have more women at the top?  My 5 facts: - Women-owned businesses generated higher revenues than their male counterparts despite having raised less investment than man - women-owned firms in the US are growing at more than double the rate of all other firms and contributing almost $3 trillion to the economy - Women generally have more humility, which prevents them from starting a business, but when they do, they tend to be more successful than their male counterparts. - Female CEOs generate a 20% increase in stock price after they take over from men - Due to less investment women tend to focus more on unit economics and efficiency, leading them to become better business managers. Support more women! Buy from women owned businesses! Happy to be part of the campaign of IN FRAUENHAND GmbH!🫶 Marina Zubrod Lena Weirauch Isabelle Gardt Katharina Wolff Milena Zimmermann Janina Ostendorf Maria-Liisa Bruckert Janina Breitling Mali M Baum Sandra Franzke 🔵🟡 Julia Olbrisch Matthias Pfestorf Michael Fritz Jan Zubrod Henrike Redecker Anika Schmidt Christina Richter Kerstin Schiefelbein Melani Ilic Mariana Ilic Frauke van Bevern Lucienne Bangura-Nottbeck Lena Pieper

Happy International Women's Day to our incredible community!  Time to celebrate the outstanding achievements and contributions of women worldwide. Our dedication to women's empowerment, diversity, and inclusion is deeply rooted in our values. UnternehmerTUM is committed to making a meaningful impact and fostering an inclusive environment. 🦸♀️ Our initiative Women Start-up by UnternehmerTUM, offers trainings, events, and a mentoring platform with Mentessa - Learning as a culture. 🦸♀️ We embody our principles through networking and harnessing our collective power of female collaboration within our initiative “Women@UnternehmerTUM". 🦸♀️ With the "FamilienUnternehmerINNEN" events, we strive to empower the next generation of female family business owners. Our esteemed management board, featuring Claudia Frey, CFO at UnternehmerTUM and CEO at Munich Urban Colab, acknowledges this day's significance. “Today we celebrate International Women's Day – Reflecting on the strides made in the last 50 years, starting with women seeking spousal permission to work, to now, integrating more and more women into leadership and entrepreneurial positions, motivates me. Despite progress, challenges persist. Let's stay united, leveraging our networks to support, learn, and shape an equal future.”  There's still work to be done, and we're wholeheartedly in it to create a diverse start-up ecosystem. So let's continue championing women's achievements, challenging biases, and collectively creating an inclusive world. Happy International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay #DiversityAndInclusion #femalefounders

Today I like to brag about the great women around (me). First out my grandma Melitta Morichetto (1914-2002), born in Böhmen in the Austrian Hungarian empire (later Sudet, which was annected by Nazis in 1937) . She escaped in 1948 to Sweden after WWII (mitigating risk for the family ending up in a Russian working camp in Poland). With my grandpa Dolf, my mom and my uncle, they packed a train car with most important and left partners, relatives, familiy, friends, daily life. She was a true leader of family - from wealthy childhood, to fearless escape to a summerhouse in Sweden - and then rebuilt family and decensy in a new country learning language, culture and evolved friends, job, a new family business and brought up two children. I think of all moms doing the same now from Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar... to another unknown place (and praying they will have the same good faith on what ever strand they arrive... as my grandma and mum have had). Grandma Melitta told med that leaders, role models, responsible citizens has nothing to do with gender, but with personality and attitude. Secondly - and actually maybe more important for this posting - my wife Wickie Meier. She has been a leader type since childhood, both in her family, but also after that in her life, for me and our children. She is also a serial entrepreneur, today as founder and director at Kvadrat Really , since 11 years, and before that co-founder of eg. The Index Project and many more companies and activities. Back in 2002 she had the vision of "Design to improve life" and have continuously kicked that ball in everything she does. Today, the International Women's Day, is that not about support women, but acknowledge they exist, and contribute equally in all ways and matter to life, society, business and global positive development. Like men do. So cherish them, and they will cherish you - not matter what gender you have. Thirdly - I think of all hundreds of women entrepreneurs and investors in sustainability I have had the fortune to have worked with the last 10 years (and the men too of course). I have so much respect for all of you. You fulfill my life, and everyone's life with learning, inspiration, leadership and more. Eg. startup founder and CEO Julia Bialetska at S.Lab, partner in Startup Wise Guys Alexandra Balkova, investor and VC GP Mette Fløe Nielsen, social impact entrepreneur Birgitte Frost Mathiesen, international aid leader Gitte Dyrhagen Husager, impact venture leader Funda Sezgi... Feminine. Masculine. It doesn't matter. In my world there's no real difference. Just words. Equality is what matters. In all ways. When you think about it (with a systemic view...) inequality is perhaps the main roots to climate change, toxic environment, nature damage, social injustice and all other global challenges. If we don't see each other equally - why should we bother about looking after each other and the surrounding society, environment and nature? #womensinternationalday

As we champion women's progress during #WomensHistoryMonth, we encourage enterprises, investors, incubators, accelerators, and innovation leaders to examine their roles within the #AgeTech sector. How are your organization's practices addressing the challenges faced by women and underrepresented founders? Share in the comments the steps you're taking towards change. Together, let's exchange strategies to forge a more inclusive #AgeTech community. #InclusiveBusiness Source: The AgeTech Collaborative ‘Challenges Faced by Underrepresented Founders’ Report

Georgie Gale's remarkable journey and contributions at Consilio showcase the impact of women leading the charge in technology. Her story is a testament to the innovation and leadership driving the industry forward. Read about her experiences, challenges and vision for the future of tech in our latest #WomenInTech feature: https://buff.ly/3AgQlzZ

With the hope of encouraging & empowering many more young entrepreneurs

Empowerment thrives in the company of brilliance. This Monday, let's remember the power of collective intelligence. Surround yourself with the sharpest minds, and together, let's elevate our aspirations to new heights. Join the Women Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, where wisdom meets ambition, and together, we create a future that knows no bounds. #MondayMotivation #Empowerment #WomenInBusiness #JoinUs #WCCIMA"

In honor of all the remarkable women, in this wast world, we wanted to do a special feature this year in light of Women's Day. From the perspective of Green Little Heart, we're proud of the fact that close to 80% of the brands in our platform are female founded. Now that is cool. 💚 💥 But some sad facts, in Sweden less than 1% (0.97%) of the invested capital goes to companies founded by women. Sweden is one of the worst counties in Europe when it comes to actually support female entrepreneurs. And anyone who starts googling these sad facts, is left with an overflow of similar articles and information stating these facts. We recently attended an event organized by Women in Business speerheaded by Carolina Lahdo, an amazing event, and there we were presented with a recently conducted research project, by Professor Malin Malmstrom, Luleå Technical University, and it proves that there are severe structural behavior problems that manifest inequalities between men and women, can you just imagine if you dive deeper into other structural problems like being a female immigrant and over 50 years’ old and you want to start your own company? When in funding situations, women are asked questions about risk and men questions about potential. Malin Malmström, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Director of Sustainable Finance Lab at Luleå Technical University, labels them as Prevention questions and Promotion questions. These are just a few examples of many proving the same point and if you start weighing in other facts like how much more responsibility women take for the home environment to function, the fact that women and children are exploited in the production of fast fashion – and yes, the list goes on. The importance of emphasizing this is to ensure, all women out there, in situations of presenting their business, pitching, discussions with banks and other situations – that we understand these severe structural problems and arm ourselves and our sisters with knowledge about it and if/when you are exposed to this 👉🏽 then we can do something about it and you can be prepared. Key leanings from Our Founders 🤲🏿 So, in spite of all of that, still 80% of the 150 brands in our platform are founded by women! Now that is truly inspiring, and we have met five of them and asked them how they started their business and which piece of advice they want to share with the rest of the world! We recorded 6 interviews with 6 founders and this article will sum up the best takeaways so that you can read this and leave feeling inspired. Five of them are brands on the Green Little Heart platform and we also spoke to the CEO & Founder of Green Little Heart. We met Jonna Johansson, CEO & Founder Attáge, Wendy Heijne, CEO & Founder Stutio Heijne, Jenny Thomasson, CEO & Co-founder Loose Knot, Therese Wiman , CEO & Founder the_wiman and Linda Rosendahl Nordin CEO & Co-Founder Pure Effects. Read the article, see the interviews and and get inspired! 🌍