Welcome to Female Founders

Female Founders is designed to connect female-founded health and life science companies with LSX’s network of investors and experienced life science professionals, provide the resources to help women raise more capital and facilitate knowledge-sharing between founders and industry veterans. Why are we here?

• To stimulate investment in female-founded health and life sciences companies in Europe, by connecting them with LSX’s existing network of 10,000 investors
  
  
• To connect women with experienced health and life sciences industry professionals for mentoring, knowledge-exchange and networking
  
  
• To provide a network for women in European health and life sciences to share ideas, ask questions and make the connections needed to grow their business

Values

Knowledge-exchange

• We facilitate open, honest dialogue between women in health and life sciences to help grow female-led businesses, as well as to support individual career progression.

Diversity and inclusion

• We believe that diversity drives innovation. We welcome women from all cultures and backgrounds and encourage diverse points of view and experience to solve some of the world’s biggest health challenges.

Member-led

• The needs of our members are integral to setting the strategic direction of the Female Founders network. We are committed to taking regular advice from our members as the network evolves and to hosting regular feedback sessions for members to contribute actively to that evolution.

Serving unmet medical needs

• Female-led businesses don’t just solve “women’s problems” but they certainly help. We are committed to driving investment into companies solving women’s health challenges and serving unmet medical needs.

“The first months' mentorship for me with [my mentor] has been invaluable. She is truly amazing and has provided so much support and help, as often as I have needed it, which has been every 2 weeks pretty much, if not more. I could not have wished for a better mentor! Thank you again for this match, I feel very privileged to have been connected.”

Stephanie Lesage, Co-Founder and CEO, Oxford Silk Phage Technologies