“The highly valued support that Julia Elliott Brown provides to women entrepreneurs is critical to helping British business women and redressing the gender funding gap"
- Victoria Harper, Telegraph
Speaking
Julia is a highly experienced keynote speaker, panel chair and event host, with significant media experience including press, television and podcast interviews.
Julia regularly hosts
talks, discussions, webinars and masterclasses on raising investment and business growth on behalf of high profile organisations in the start-up industry. These organisations include Natwest, Barclays, HSBC, UBS, Virgin Start-up, Crowdcube, Seedrs, Seed Legals, The Rose Review, GBEA, The Entrepreneurs Network, The Great British Businesswoman Forum, The Womens Chapter, Investec, IdeasFest, The AllBright and The Womens Chapter.
Keynote topics
FIVE STEPS TO FUNDRAISING FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS
The male dominated world of investment can be a minefield for female founders to navigate, with women feeling 81 per cent less likely than men that they can access the finance they need for their start-up.
Get behind the scenes of the fundraising ecosystem and discover how to overcome these challenges by building a Fundraising Mindset, and following the 5 key steps to successfully secure investment: Company, Commercials, Communication, Connection and Commitment.
DEALING WITH GENDER BIAS AND ‘VENTURESPLAINING’
Less than 2% of venture funding goes to female founders, with more than half of women entrepreneurs experiencing gender bias in the fundraising process. We must not let these shocking statistics hold us back and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Step into your power as a female founder as you learn how to overcome perceived and real gender bias, speak the language of investors, handle ‘prevention’ questions, deal with being ‘Venturesplained’ to, and negotiate a fundraising deal as good as a man’s.
THE VALUE OF INVESTING IN FEMALE FOUNDERS
Underestimating the value that female founders can bring to to the world means investors are missing out on a significant opportunity. Companies with female founders delivering double the return on investment and are significantly less likely to fail. The business case is beyond compelling.
Discover strategies on how to level the playing field for women-led start-ups, including how to reimagine your organisational approach and deal generation process, check your biases, and uncover the true potential of female founders, and you’ll generate serious returns in the process.
Writing & broadcasting
Julia regularly champions female founders and raises awareness of the gender funding gap in the media, and has been featured in The Telegraph, The Times, Evening Standard, City AM and on London Live, as well as on numerous podcasts.
She's the host of leading podcast, Fundraising Stories with Female Founders, and author of best-selling book RAISE: The Female Founders Guide To Securing Investment, shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2023.
She has an excellent network and reputation in the investment ecosystem with entrepreneurs, investors and partners, with a following of several thousand on social media and email newsletters.
Outside of work
Julia lives in Folkestone in Kent, where she sings in a show tunes choir, loves cooking and good wine, keeping fit and sane with yoga, online fitness classes and long walks on the beach with her cocker spaniel, Kenny, plus hanging out with her teenage kids (when they let her).