UK Investment Landscape for female investors and entrepreneurs
Making the UK
the best place in the world to be a female entrepreneur.
The Invest in Women Taskforce is putting more capital into the hands of women – to grow female-powered businesses and strengthen the UK economy
Women are under-represented at senior investment level, yet we know female investors are twice as likely to back female entrepreneurs
Only15%
of the UK’s senior investors are women.
To rebalance the landscape, we need more women at senior investment levels
- BVCA Level 20
Only14%
of Angel Investors are women,
which hinders investment for female-led businesses at the earlier stages
- UKBAA Beauhurst
Female entrepreneurs still receive low levels of investment and face more challenges making it through the investment pipeline
Equity investment for fully female founded businesses dropped from 2.5% in 2023 to 2% in 2024
- Beauhurst
Men are twice as likely than women to get through to investment committee stage
- Investing in Women Code
It’s time to realise the full economic benefit of investing in women
£250bn
potential boost to the UK economy
if women were to start and scale their business at the same rate as men
- Press Review
35%
higher returns on investment
generated by women-led businesses versus male-led counterparts
- Kaufmann Fellows