Capital literacy for female founders

The knowledge that changes what you keep.

Women, Wealth & Capital is an expert-led series giving female founders the financial fluency to make intentional, confident funding decisions, and build lasting wealth.

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Session 01 sold out
50+ founders at launch
London, 2026

What this is

An ongoing series. Community led. Practical steps.

Women, Wealth & Capital fills the gap that too many founders reach the fundraising table without - practical, unbiased knowledge about how funding really works.

An ongoing series, led by experts in venture, angel investing, debt finance, and capital strategy. Each session stands alone, and the programme grows. Educational, not pitch-led. Honest, not aspirational.

Designed for founders at every stage - from first raise to later rounds - who want to make decisions from knowledge, not pressure.

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Funding Paths for Female Founders

An overview of the full funding landscape, grants, angels, VCs, debt, and how to map the right path for your business.

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The Ownership Equation

Dilution, cap tables, term sheets, and what founders actually keep after a raise. The session most founders wish they'd had earlier.

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Debt, Revenue Finance & Alternatives

Often-overlooked capital routes that protect equity and support sustainable, founder-led growth.

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Becoming the Capital: Investor Stream

For women interested in Angel investing, hear from those who've already started — evaluating deals, backing female-led businesses & the tax incentives, building a portfolio with intention.

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More sessions to come

The programme grows with the community. Subscribe to hear about new sessions as they're announced.

The FemFinity Loop

The founders of today become the investors of tomorrow.

WWC is designed around a simple idea: when female founders build capital literacy, they raise better, keep more, and — in time — reinvest in the next generation of women building businesses.

Grow

Female founders build capital literacy and the confidence to make intentional funding decisions that protect long-term ownership.

Raise

Informed decisions mean founders retain more equity, build more wealth, and approach investors from knowledge, not pressure.

Reinvest

The founders who build wealth become the angels who back the next generation. The loop closes, and begins again, in this community.

Becoming the Capital — Investor Stream

For women ready to step into angel investing — evaluating deals, backing female-led businesses, and building a portfolio with intention. Where the loop closes.

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Why this matters

The knowledge gap is the access gap.

Female founders are the fastest-growing segment in UK entrepreneurship. The opportunity is significant. The information gap is holding it back.

30.4%

of all high-growth companies in the UK are women-powered businesses

JP Morgan & Beauhurst
45%

of female founders cite funding as their biggest barrier — not because they can't raise, but because the landscape is rarely explained without an agenda

The Rise Report 2026
78%

of female founders say connection is central to their journey — the relationships built now shape who they trust and who they back

The Rise Report 2026
<2%

of UK VC funding goes to all-female founder teams, making capital literacy not just useful, but essential

British Business Bank 2024

How it works

Educational, not pitch-led.

Each session is designed to give founders something practical they can act on, not a networking event with a panel bolted on.

Expert-led

Practitioner sessions

Hear directly from investors, founders, and finance experts who have done this, with real context, not polished messaging.

Panel

Founder perspectives

Founders who have navigated the funding landscape share what they actually experienced, the things pitch events don't surface.

Practical

Workshops & roundtables

Small-group formats that let you apply what you've heard to your own situation, with space for real questions.

Takeaway

Something you can use

Every session is designed around a clear outcome, a framework, a decision tool, or a shifted perspective you leave with.

Sessions are limited to 40–60 founders to keep conversations genuine, small enough for questions, and large enough for a real community to form around them.

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Upcoming sessions

Sessions confirmed so far

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Women, Wealth & Capital · London 2026
Jun
8th
Becoming the Capital
For women ready to step into Angel Investing or thinking about it in the future · London
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Jun
TBC
The Ownership Equation
Dilution, cap tables & what founders keep · London
Coming soon
2026
Debt, Revenue Finance & Alternatives
Equity-protecting capital routes · London
Coming soon
2026
Angel vs Institutional Equity
How investor expectations shift across stages · London
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Expert panel at WWC Session 01

Next session

The Ownership Equation

The session most founders wish they'd had before their first raise. What you sign shapes what you keep — for ever.

How dilution really works ,and what the numbers mean for you
Reading a cap table before and after a round
Term sheets decoded: what to push back on
What founders actually keep after a raise
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Session 01 · April 2026

Funding Paths for Female Founders

Sold out. 50 founders. OPUS House, London.

Full room at WWC Session 01
50 founders filled the room at OPUS House, London
Expert panel
Expert panel - HSBC, Alma Angels, Innovate UK, Pitchwits
Founders panel
Founder panel - Laura Riches, Olivia Parkes, Lucy Hope
Experts

Finance & investor practitioners

Alex Hazell (HSBC Innovation Banking), Roxane Sanguinetti (Alma Angels), Hemaxi Bhatt (Innovate UK), Cheryl Eggleston (Pitchwits)

Founders panel

Founders who've been in the room

Laura Riches (Laylo Drinks), Olivia Parkes (Persi), Lucy Hope (The Daughters of Mars): honest perspectives on what fundraising really looked like.

What attendees left with

Clarity on the funding landscape

A mapped view of every capital route available: grants, angels, VCs, debt, and how to identify the right path for their stage and goals.

What founders said

From the room

Feedback from attendees at Session 01 — Funding Paths for Female Founders, April 2026

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No gatekeeping. No performance. Just honest conversations about money, growth and what it really takes to get funded as a female founder.

Rebecca Waclawyj
Founder, Brighter Future Mediation
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A space that felt genuinely open, practical and inspiring. I left feeling really energised and grateful to have connected with so many incredible women.

Sara Seghayer
Engineer & Innovation Strategist
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Privileged to have been part of a supportive, enlightening space. Hats off to Hazel and Lucy for a fabulous collaboration.

Caron Pollard
Strategic Advisor
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For women like me building a fast-growing FMCG business, this was exactly what we needed. Really looking forward to all the things they have planned.

Jennie Bayliss
Founder, Letterbox Cocktails
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So inspiring to bring so many women together. Really interesting speakers. Genuinely one of the best events I've been to this year.

Serena Reynell
Attendee
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I didn't even know what pre-seed meant two months ago. I left with my head full and my notebook overflowing. The panel of founders were honest in a way you don't always get. Real stories. Hard lessons. That reframe alone was worth the evening.

Pinal Holmes
Founder, Is it Peri? · AI Builder

For partners & sponsors

Education-first partnerships.

WWC works with aligned organisations who believe in closing the knowledge gap for female founders, not a logo placement for its own sake.

Aligned partners only: organisations that share the mission of closing the funding knowledge gap
Direct access to a highly engaged, curated community of female founders
Education-first: partners contribute meaningfully to sessions, not just be in the room
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Series 01 partners
LAYLO wine
OPUS
Alma Angels

Who's behind it

Part of the FemFinity ecosystem.

Women, Wealth & Capital is a programme produced by Hazel Nabarro (FemFinity) and Lucy Colson, in response to a clear and consistent gap: female founders arriving at funding conversations without the foundational knowledge to navigate them well.

It sits within the broader FemFinity mission, to support women building businesses and wealth, and is designed as an ongoing series, not a one-off event. The goal is a community of founders who understand capital, protect their equity, and reinvest in the next generation.

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Hazel Nabarro

Founder, FemFinity

Hazel founded FemFinity to build community and support for female founders and investors. WWC is the flagship community within that ecosystem.

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Lucy Colson

Strategic Consultant

Lucy brings deep expertise in strategy and capital markets, translating complex funding concepts into practical knowledge founders can actually use.

The Femfinity Loop — Grow, Raise, Reinvest. The founders who build wealth today become the angels who back the next generation. WWC is where that loop begins.

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