Foundations in Startup Investing

Investing with a Gender Lens

In this week-long course you’ll learn the foundations of investing and how you can evaluate potential investments with a gender-smart perspective that promotes inclusion, safety, equity and belonging.

Supported in part by the Women and Nonbinary Impact Network for Venture Capital (WIN-VC)

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What is Gender Lens Investing?

Gender Lens investing, also known as “gender-smart” investing, is an approach that takes gender-based issues into consideration in investment decisions. Being a gender-smart investor means investing in companies that are committed to:

  • Being owned and led by women
  • Creating and maintaining a gender-inclusive value chain
  • Ensuring their operations do no harm to women
  • Developing a gender-diverse and equitable workforce
  • Designing products or services that consider the distinct needs of women as a consumer segment

What You’ll Learn

This program is open to Canadian and Americans of any gender who are curious about gender lens investing. Here’s how the one week virtual course breaks down:

  1. Introduction to Startup Investing
  2. The Investment Process & Venture Assessment – Explore the end-to-end process of an individual deal and define the path to your next investment with a gender lens and develop your own gender action plan. Use a gender investment lens to assess startup potential including the diversity of teams, DEI practices, the outcomes & benefits of the product or service and more.
  3. Deal Mechanics – Get a closer look at the technical side of deals in venture investing and how it can be revised to better suit the needs of women, including non-traditional funding terms.
  4. Investment Strategies – Design a thesis, strategy and timeline for success that empowers women-owned and led businesses and promotes equity & diversity at all levels.
  5. Live Deal Screening – Get an insider’s exclusive look at the pitch deck, exec summary of an established founder’s actual deal and use what you have learned in real life.

Early bird rate is $199 CAD +GST until July 30th and $299 CAD +GST afterward.

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The course empowered me to believe that I can become an angel investor and that this can be an impactful way to align my dollars and investments with my values.

Taheera Fidaali
Owner – Tula CPA

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