Angels at Essex: Female Founders and Investors March 2022

Angels@Essex – Female Founders and Investors is a female-led network that helps female-led tech businesses to find the right investors. This initiative will offer support that addresses the specific needs, challenges and goals of female founders and investors. They welcome both parties into the inclusive Angels@Essex community. Look out for regular monthly events and follow them on Twitter @AngelsEssexFFI

Angels@Essex embraces the Investing in Women Code. This is a commitment to support the advancement of female entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom by improving female entrepreneurs’ access to tools, resources, and finance from the financial services sector. Angels@Essex is committed to making that vision a reality.

Guest Speaker: Frances Spooner – Marriott Harrison

Fran is a partner in Marriott Harrison’s Corporate team, and has been with the firm for over a decade. She advises clients from a range of sectors on corporate and corporate finance matters including venture capital, venture debt, private equity and M&A. She has also spent time on secondment at well-known client venture capital houses. Fran is a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500 for venture capital and M&A transactions, with clients commenting she is “very experienced, commercial and pragmatic” and “works to get transactions done quickly and efficiently without sacrificing attention to detail.

Host: Lauren Gräeve- Enterprise Officer for Essex Startups.

Lauren has been part of the Essex Startups team for 2 and a half years. Working with students and graduates to help support them on their business startup journey.

Lauren is no stranger to the business world and has had an entrepreneurial mindset since a young age, from setting up as a freelance beauty therapist to a children’s entertainment company which she still runs alongside her work at the university.

Lauren is very passionate about creativity and embracing new and interesting concepts and always striving to support students startups.

Host: Magda Mahdy – The Weave

Documentary & Creative wedding photographer living in a small coastal town called Leigh-on-sea in Essex, UK. Some fun and colourful facts about me: I’m a notorious travel freak; I’m a cat-obsessed coffee drinker – yes I am! For whatever reason I have a thing for all things pineapples. There is always a reason to laugh out loud, to have a party and to celebrate. Let’s create the business and the life of our dreams! Let’s do it together!