Virginia Klausmeier, CEO and Founder of Sylvatex

Debbie Watkins, CEO & Co-founder of Lucy

Today's episode features the amazing Debbie Watkins, co-founder and CEO of Lucy, a mobile banking and money management solution for women in Singapore. Lucy provides a mobile application designed to provide entrepreneurial women with the tools to make life easier. Debbie spoke about the challenges she has seen with female entrepreneurs in this space and what we can learn from developing countries. * Debbie Watkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-watkins/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-watkins/] * Lucy https://www.welucy.com/ [https://www.welucy.com/ ] * Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/] * Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/ [https://www.exigeinternational.com/] * Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/] Jugaad Innovation by Jaideep Prabhu, Navi Radjou, and Simone Ahuja ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Virginia Klausmeier, CEO and Founder of Sylvatex

We are joined today by the amazing Virginia Klausmeier, founder and CEO of Sylvatex, a company whose technology replaces costly and carbon intensive practices with efficient and climate friendly manufacturing techniques. Virginia shared some great insights into the transition to clean energy, investment and her own founding story. * Virginia Klausmeier https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-klausmeier-2a34ab9/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/virginia-klausmeier-2a34ab9/] * Sylvatex https://sylvatex.com/ [https://sylvatex.com/] * Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/] * Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/ [https://www.exigeinternational.com/] * Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Elsie Amoako, CEO & Founder of Mommy Monitor

It is our pleasure to welcome Elsie Amoako, CEO and Founder of Mommy Monitor, a social enterprise which offers customized maternal health support and education in a culturally sensitive way. Elsie founded this business to help combat issues in pre-natal and post-natal care - designing a solution to help mothers and people who give birth to access culturally aware and sensitive health care professional and resources. This was an amazing discussion where Elsie shared her journey from academic research to founding her business and the challenges and opportunities she has faced since then. * Elsie Amoako https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsieamoako/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsieamoako/] * Mommy Monitor https://www.mommymonitor.ca/ [https://www.mommymonitor.ca/] * Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/] * Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/ [https://www.exigeinternational.com/] * Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Laura-Marie Töpfer, Partner at Extantia Capital

This week, we welcome the amazing Laura-Marie Töpfer who is a Partner at Extantia Capital. Extantia Capital is a Venture Capital firm which specifically invests in the decarbonisation space and climate tech. There has been so much research and articles published in the past couple of years talking about how female-led companies have very limited investment from the VC community, and Laura-Marie shares her insights into what this means and her thoughts about the lack of female talent in the VC area. * Laure Marie Töpfer https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-laura-marie-toepfer/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-laura-marie-toepfer/] * Extantia Capital https://extantia.com/ [https://extantia.com/] * Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/] * Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/ [https://www.exigeinternational.com/] * Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Kristine Beese, Founder & CEO of Untangle Money

Today's guest is the awesome Kristine Beese, CEO and Founder of Untangle Money, a company that is looking to empower women by providing financial management which is tailored specifically for them. In this episode, we speak about her entrepreneurship journey so far and how Untangle Money was started, as well as the financial disadvantage which women face. * Kristine Beese https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinebeese/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinebeese/] * Untangle Money https://www.untangle.money/ [https://www.untangle.money/] * Samantha Smart https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasmart1/] * Exige International https://www.exigeinternational.com/ [https://www.exigeinternational.com/] * Exige International LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/exige-international/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.