In this week’s episode, Rachael talks to Katherine who is a Business Development manager for Seedrs, a leading equity crowdfunding platform that allows anybody to invest from as little as £10. Katherine finds start up companies who want to raise investment on the Seedrs platform and supports them through the whole process from creating their investment strategy to running their crowdfunding campaign.

Katherine shares her experiences and her advice on what it was like starting a career in law and making a career change at the age of 28 into the relatively new crowdfunding industry. And we also touch on how she moulds her role to focus on the industries she’s personally passionate about such as fem tech start ups and sustainable consumer brands as well as encouraging other females to invest.   

Useful Links:

Check out Seedrs: https://www.seedrs.com/

Check out Big Night, the restaurant delivery service: https://bignight.app/

Check out Gively, where you can give and get items for free: https://www.gively.co/

Check out And Sisters who make sustainable period care products: https://andsisters.co.uk/

Check out This who offer plant based meat alternatives: https://this.co/

General resources to keep up to date with start ups:

1.   https://sifted.eu/
2. http://www.startups.co.uk/
3. http://www.technation.io/
4. http://www.wired.co.uk/

Female Focussed:

1. http://www.allbrightcollective.com/
2. http://www.foundflourish.co.uk/
3. http://www.angelacadame.com/ (sign up to their newsletter)

Fem tech/health tech focussed:

1. http://www.womenofwearables.com/
2. http://www.femtechinsider.com/