Talent shows up in every corner of the founder community, in every kind of person and at every stage, and yet the routes into the right rooms, the right introductions and the right advice have never been equally easy to find for everyone. At Techscaler, we are acutely aware of that gap, and it is one of the many reasons why we are glad to support Turn the Table, a series led by CodeBase that gathers women and non-binary founders around practical conversations, real expertise and personal mentoring, and that goes towards our Pathways Pledge as part of Pathways Forward.
Our belief is that entrepreneurial spirit thrives when every founder can see a path from where they are to where they want to be, and because a good path rarely looks the same twice, the series offers several ways in and several ways onward, beginning with roundtables, held in different places and online, where the questions founders carry with them, from raising money to taking a business abroad, are put to people who have already been through it and are generous about what they learned.
From there the series widens into a full day in the same spirit, with more room to work, bringing strategy sessions, breakouts and hands-on pairing under one roof, and then it narrows to one-to-one mentoring, which gives whatever a founder is working on right now, at whatever point they have reached, focused attention.
Each of the three works as an invitation in its own right, so founders can join one, two or all of them:
- Roundtables: Open discussions, hosted in person and online, where founders trade honest stories with experts and experienced entrepreneurs and leave knowing a few more people who understand the road they are on.
- The full day: A hosted day of interactive sessions and conversations, with founders paired alongside team members who have built startups themselves, and looked after throughout with good food and a few thoughtful touches.
- Mentoring: A match with a mentor for tailored guidance on whatever will move your business forward, such as a sharper pitch deck, a well-placed introduction, or specialist strategic guidance, with focused sessions shaped around your priorities.
The doors are open to cisgender women, transgender women, and non-binary individuals at every stage, whether they are still shaping an idea at a kitchen table or already selling in several countries, and to those joining from a different city, a different time zone, or a screen on the other side of the world, which is the breadth of talent we are here to support.
The first roundtable: Scaling Globally
Our first roundtable, hosted by CodeBase with the support of Techscaler and in partnership with ACCEND, is a good example of what we mean by a path, because it takes place online on Wednesday 18 November from 15:00 to 16:00 and opens up a conversation that founders in many places can step into, designed for ACCEND Horizon Europe around the challenge of raising and managing capital across borders. International investors and founders will unpack how to shape a financing plan for growth abroad, how to pitch in a market that has yet to hear of you, and how to move past the blockers that most often slow an expansion down.
Guiding the discussion are Sarah Anto, an investor in deep tech and AI based in Finland, Marissa Fayer, CEO of DeepLook Medical in the USA, Anne Ravanona of Global InvestHer in France, and J. Kelly Hoey, investor and author, each bringing a different vantage point on funding and growth, with Jennifer Forbes Iannolo of CodeBase, who works as VP of Business Acceleration, moderating.
Founders can expect practical frameworks for building an international financing plan, a clearer sense of the regulatory, market entry and strategic questions that come with seeking cross-border venture capital, and a set of criteria for vetting potential funders for fit, alignment and long-term value, together with ways to take stock of and strengthen their international advisor and investor relationships. There is an interactive Q&A for your own questions, which stays off the recording so that they can be asked freely, and the rest of the session will be recorded.
You can register for the roundtable by clicking here and if there is a founder in your own circle who would value a place at the roundtable, please pass it along, because a thriving founder community grows one introduction at a time
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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