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Gender and Venture Investing with Leanne Robers

Leanne Robers is an entrepreneur, startup advisor and community builder. She is the co-Founder of She Loves Tech, the world’s largest startup competition and accelerator program for women-led and women-impact tech startups. Now operating in 72 countries, She Loves Tech is committed to building an ecosystem for technology, entrepreneurship and innovation that creates opportunities for women and closes the gender gap in startup funding. Since its founding in 2015, more than 13,000 startups have joined and have gone on to raise more than USD$300M. Together with Microsoft, She Loves Tech is committed to unlocking USD1 Billion in funding for women entrepreneurs across Asia by 2030. Jonathan Rechtman is a communication coach, simultaneous interpreter, co-founder of Next Level Communication and Cadence Translate. Based in China for over a decade, he has interpreted for multiple presidents and prime ministers, Hollywood stars, Fortune 500 CEOs, and Nobel prize winners, and has served as a communication coach to some of the country’s most influential C-suite executives. He has previously served as a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum; a mentor at Chinaccelerator and the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University; and a visiting instructor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the University of Ottawa, and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE).