december, 2020

09dec09:0010:30Fund allocation and criteria to increase the funding going to women-led VC funds, startups and innovative businessesDo we need quotas of which criteria should apply to drive change?09:00 - 10:30 Event Type:Conference Session in cooperation with EUTOP50 and Knowco Collabwith

Time

(Wednesday) 09:00 - 10:30

Location

Zoom Virtual Debate

Event Details

Description

This debate has to provide recommendations on how to increase investment in women-led VC funds, startups and businesses.

The recent agreement on the next MFF as well as on the Recovery Fund is a good starting point for Europe to recover quickly and seize the opportunity for a green and digital transition and achieve the set climate and environmental objectives for a sustainable future.

It is also an opportunity to tap into the great potential of women-led businesses and review and discuss how part of these funds will be allocated to increase the high potential of women and diverse teams especially in the area of innovation resulting in a strong impact for European industry and society. Women and diverse teams care more about impact, sustainability and innovation for good.

The debate will bring together women-led VCs, startups and businesses with MEPs, EC experts, industry leaders, the banking sector and other innovation ecosystem leaders. As the EIB said in its latest report (June 2020), “there is a paramount need to increase the quantum of financing available to female entrepreneurs going forward, and European institutions and programmes have the means to lead the way by prioritising investments in this area and crowding in additional financing”.

In order to register please register here.

Organizer

Conference Session in cooperation with EUTOP50 and Knowco Collabwith

Host

Lina Gálvez Muñoz, MEP, Member of the K4I Forum, S&D, Spain

Speakers for this event

  • Alessia Centioni

    Alessia Centioni

    EWA Co-founder and president, European Women Alliance EWA

    Italian, mother of two children, co-founder and president of European Women Alliance, she has ten years of experience in European affairs in the field of industry, internal market, trade and foreign policy. She is graduated in Political Sciences at university of Rome La Sapienza and holds a M.A in European studies at the ULB of Brussels. Alessia is a pro-European and feminist activist trusting in EU’s integration and women empowerment. In 2018 she established the Women's European Council, WEUCO, the pre-summit ahead to the European Council gathering Heads of State and Government, Ministers, European Commissioners and MEPs to provide a gender perspective to all EU public policies. She regularly contributes on Huffington Post blog with comments on Italian and European politics.

    EWA Co-founder and president, European Women Alliance EWA

  • Corinne Vigreux

    Corinne Vigreux

    Co-Founder, TomTom

    Corinne Vigreux is a Co-founder and currently CMO of TomTom, the location technology specialist shaping mobility with digital maps, navigation software, real-time traffic and services for consumers, the automotive industry and leading tech companies. Voted as one of the world’s top fifty women in tech (Forbes) and as one of the most inspirational women in European tech (Inspiringfifty), Corinne champions women in the workforce and passionately advocates for improved social mobility through education. Corinne founded Codam, a not for profit coding college, member of the Ecole 42 network. Codam opened its doors in September 2018 in the heart of Amsterdam and offers a three year software engineering course to more than 300 Students. Corinne is the vice chairwoman of the supervisory board of Takeaway.com NV , chairwoman of TechLeap, supervisory board member of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, advisory board member of the University of Amsterdam and of SNCF Mass Transit, and international advisory board member to the Amsterdam Economic Board. She is chair on the trustee board of the Sofronie foundation. Corinne was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau in 2016.

    Co-Founder, TomTom

  • Hadewych Cels

    Hadewych Cels

    Owner, Karmijn Kapitaal

    Hadewych Cels is one of the three female founders of Karmijn Kapitaal, a private equity firm investing in Dutch SMEs that are led by a gender-diverse management team. Karmijn started in 2010 and closed its second fund (EUR 90M) in 2016. Currently, Karmijn has 11 companies in portfolio in a variety of sectors. Recently, Hadewych was named one of the 40 future Diversity & Inclusion leaders in private equity (RealDeals/PER). Before Karmijn, Hadewych was partner at Plain Vanilla, a turnaround investment firm. She has a background in hands-on private equity, consulting and entrepreneurship. Hadewych studied economics at Erasmus University, applied mathematics at Southampton University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

    Owner, Karmijn Kapitaal

  • Jara Pascual

    Jara Pascual

    Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

    Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

  • Jean-David Malo

    Jean-David Malo

    EIC Task Force Director of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

    Jean-David and his team are currently designing the European Innovation Council (EIC) for top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with bright ideas and the ambition to scale up internationally. It currently brings together the parts of Horizon 2020 that provide funding, advice and networking opportunities for those at the cutting edge of innovation. In 2011, Jean-David Malo created a new team in DG Research and Innovation at the European Commission to increase private finance and close market gaps for investing in innovation. The team did this mainly by expanding the scope and scale of existing EU innovative financial instruments and by developing new ones in the fields of debt and equity financing, notably in the context of Horizon 2020, the EU funding programme for research and innovation. Jean-David and his team also covered the SME dimension of Horizon 2020. On February 2017, Jean-David was appointed Director of the Directorate in charge of "Open Innovation and Open Science".

    EIC Task Force Director of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

  • Kanira Shah

    Kanira Shah

    Antwerp Satellite Manager, EIT Digital

    Kanira joined EIT Digital in 2020 as the Antwerp Satellite Manager for EIT Digital focusing on building out the vibrant Antwerp ecosystem. Previously, she worked as Investment Manager at SPDG, an investment firm focused on investments in India as well as early stage investments into the mobility, IoT and industry 4.0 verticals in Europe and USA. Prior to joining SPDG, Kanira worked at DN Capital in London as an Investor Relations Manager/Associate, successfully helping DN Capital raise its fourth fund of €200 million and looking at investments in the mobile app, marketplace and SaaS space. Before that, she worked as an Associate at Praefinium Partners, focused on Clean Technology in emerging markets and was also an active entrepreneur for a few years in the creative industry in India and the UK. Kanira holds a Masters in Information Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Environmental Technology, both from Imperial College London and an MBA from INSEAD. She has also published her MSc thesis via NHH, Norway.

    Antwerp Satellite Manager, EIT Digital

  • Kinga Stanislawska

    Kinga Stanislawska

    Founder, European Women in VC

    Kinga has nearly 20 years of experience in investments and finance. She is founder of Experior VC, investing in scale ups and growth, pure software with strong ML/AI in SaaS, including software deep tech, ecommerce, big data driven companies across all verticals. She is active in supporting women-led companies as mentor and investor. She established the European Women in VC platform with the aim of increasing the number of female partners at venture funds across Europe from the current low single digit percentage number it is today. Kinga is advisor to European Innovation Council and IC member of EIC Fund. She was Vice President of the Polish PE/VC Funds Association (PSIK) for 5 years. She is named one of the TOP 50 of Europe’s most influential women in the start-up and venture capital spaceby EU Startups and top 50 women in tech in Europe by Forbes.

    Founder, European Women in VC

  • Laura Rodríguez Gallego

    Laura Rodríguez Gallego

    Principal, Invivo Capital

    Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology (UAB), PhD in Biotechnology (UB) and a Postgraduate course in Innovation Management (UAB). Her research in gene therapy applications in the cancer field have led to publications in scientific journals and collaborations with biotech companies. She has been Project Manager in the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Unit at the Research Institute of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital (VHIR) in Barcelona. She is an active member in the EIT Health Alumni Network, after her participation in the EIT Health Innovation & Business Creation Summer School (2016) organized by the Trinity College in Dublin and IESE business school. She usually collaborates with different entities of the health innovation ecosystem as a start-up mentor, jury and evaluator (COMB, EIT Health, Ship2b, Imagine IF!, FIPSE and CIMTI, among others). Since January 2018, she works as investment analyst in Healthequity, and since 2019 at Invivo Ventures, the first fund of Invivo Capital Partners. Currently she is Principal at Invivo Capital Partners.

    Principal, Invivo Capital

  • Lina Gálvez Muñoz

    Lina Gálvez Muñoz

    Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

    Lina Gálvez Muñoz is a Member of the European Parliament since July 2019. In the EP, she is Vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and member of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA). She also belongs to the committees on Employment and Social Affairs and Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Lina Gálvez Muñoz PhD, European University Institute (Florence) is Economic History and Institutions Full Professor at the Economics Department at Pablo Olavide University (Seville). She has also been professor at the Universities of Reading (Reading), Carlos III (Madrid), and as a visiting professor at Centre for time use research at Oxford University (Oxford). She has more than hundred scientific publications and she has also been Vice-Rector of her university from 2007 to 2012 and served as Regional Minister of Knowledge, Research and University of the Government of Andalusia from 2018 to 2019.

    Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

  • Nakeema Stefflbauer

    Nakeema Stefflbauer

    CEO, FrauenLoop, Included VC Fellow

    Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer is a Harvard University MA/PhD, an MBA and a Venture Fellow at Included.VC. A tech digitalisation executive, Dr. Stefflbauer founded the FrauenLoop.org women’s programming NGO in Berlin and the Techincolor.eu network of racially diverse tech leaders in Europe. Dr. Stefflbauer writes and speaks about mitigating bias in AI and VC and has presented on AI topics at the European Parliament.

    CEO, FrauenLoop, Included VC Fellow

  • Pilar Manchón

    Pilar Manchón

    Senior Director of Research Strategy, GoogleAI at Google

    Pilar has been a leading voice within the AI industry for more than 20 years: as an entrepreneur, driving her AI startup through a successful exit, and as an executive at companies such as Roku, Amazon, Intel and now Google. After building high-performance teams, launching full product lines, raising millions in venture capital and developing leading-edge AI, Pilar believes that having an inspiring mission and a hard-working, determined and diverse team are the key to a successful venture. Pilar’s main areas of expertise range from Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Conversational Systems to Speech Recognition & Synthesis, Machine Translation and Language Technologies and AI in general. Pilar is particularly interested in Intelligent Conversational Agents, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Ambient Computing & Robotics. Pilar is originally from Spain and holds an MSc. in Cognitive Science and Natural Language and a PhD in Intelligent Dialog Systems. She is also an advisor to several Al companies, academic institutions, NGOs, an investor, a lecturer and a public speaker.

    Senior Director of Research Strategy, GoogleAI at Google

  • Shiva Dustdar

    Shiva Dustdar

    Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory, EIB

    Shiva Dustdar has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry working for large private and public institutions in New York, London and Luxembourg. Since joining EIB in 2003, she has worked in risk management, lending and investing in innovative companies and currently heads the Innovation Finance Advisory (IFA) Division in the EIB which she was tasked to set up in 2013. IFA has 2 units covering project advisory and thematic finance providing access to finance advice to public and private entities, performing market studies and developing new financial products to meet the financing needs across the innovation spectrum to support smart, green and healthy growth. (https://www.eib.org/en/products/advising/innovfin-advisory) Shiva started her career in 1993 at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking in New York working in M&A, Project Finance and Emerging Markets before joining Fitch Rating Agency in 1999 to set up its European High Yield rating business. Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and was nominated to Top 50 Women in Credit by Credit Magazine in 2006. She is a regular speaker on innovation and impact financing, gender smart investing, digital and green financing and actively engaged in networks that promote sustainable and mission oriented financing. (https://www.eib.org/en/products/advising/innovfin-advisory) Shiva started her career in 1993 at J.P. Morgan Investment Banking in New York working in M&A, Project Finance and Emerging Markets before joining Fitch Rating Agency in 1999 to set up its European High Yield rating business. Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and was nominated to Top 50 Women in Credit by Credit Magazine in 2006. She is a regular speaker on innovation and impact financing, gender smart investing, digital and green financing and actively engaged in networks that promote sustainable and mission oriented financing.

    Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory, EIB

  • Silvia Manca

    Silvia Manca

    Head of Social Impact Programmes, European Investment Fund (EIF)

    Head of Social Impact Programmes, European Investment Fund (EIF)

  • Tamara Obradov

    Tamara Obradov

    Partner VC Tablomonto and Co-initiation #fundrigth mission in the Netherlands

    Tamara Obradov is a partner and fund manager of Tablomonto Ventures. Tablomonto is a female-led venture capital firm investing in category-creating tech businesses in health-, consumer-, education- and fintech. In the last year, Tamara was one of the founding partners of the #Fundright initiative. #Fundright is a VC industry initiative which aims to equalize the gender funding gap for startup founders. She has made tremendous effort in diversifying their own portfolio. Thorugh #fundright the goal is to create equal funding opportunities for founders regardless of their gender of background. She is a Harvard Business School and Rotterdam School of Management alumna. She lives in Amsterdam with her partner and 3 kids.

    Partner VC Tablomonto and Co-initiation #fundrigth mission in the Netherlands

Speakers

Jean-David Malo, EIC Task Force Director of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Kinga Stanislawska, Founder, European Women in VC

Silvia Manca, Head of Social Impact Programmes, European Investment Fund (EIF)

Shiva Dustdar, Head of Division, Innovation Finance Advisory

Pilar Manchón, Senior Director of Research Strategy, GoogleAI at Google

Tamara Obradov, VC fund manager and Partner Tablomondo, The Fundrigth Initiative

Alessia Centioni, EWA Co-founder and president, European Women Alliance EWA

Corinne Vigreux, Co-Founder, TomTom

Nakeema Stefflbauer, CEO, FrauenLoop, Included VC Fellow

Hadewych Cels, Owner, Karmijn Kapitaal

Laura Rodríguez Gallego, Principal, Invivo Capital

Kanira Shah, Antwerp Satellite Manager, EIT Digital

 

Moderator

Jara Pascual, Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

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