This week Astia – a global non-profit organization that provides innovative programs to exceptional women-led start-ups – announced the dates for its second annual ‘Doing it Right’ London Programme. Read the Announcement here:
Astia is an unusual organisation that delivers its support and leadership services through a network of 750 serial entrepreneurs, investors and advisors. Head-quartered in San Francisco, Astia delivers programs for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, New York, London and, from 2010, India.
Astia’s focus in London in preparing client entrepreneurs to access and secure capital. However the value of the global network is that it provides a mechanism to scale women led businesses by connecting to overseas capital and gaining introductions to partner organisations beyond the immediate payoff of the event participation.
Astia is currently reaching out to high potential women led businesses in high potential sectors including life sciences. There are very few companies in our sector led by women. That is a something that we all need to address; because
- 1) we are educating more women scientists and entrepreneurs. If this pool of talent cannot be translated into business leaders we compromise our capacity to improve GDP.
2) Evidence suggests that women led businesses are more capital efficient and less likely to fail
If you would like to find out more about Astia’s activities in Europe, please visit the website. If you are a women led business Astia would like to hear from you. Please feel free to contact one of the Astia team or pick up the phone to Rowan at BioLauncher.
And if you are considering starting a business follow the advice of Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of Areva and ranked the most by Forbes as one of the world’s ten most powerful women, ahead of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Queen.
In a recent interview with The Times she was asked – What advice would you give to young women entering business? Her answer “You can do it. When I was 20 I would never have imagined that I would be a CEO.”
You can read that interview here:
