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Co-founder & COO

Gina Gotthilf

Finding a great founder is every investor's dream. Join this session to learn how some leading investors identify – and work with – the best founders.

What makes a world-class founder?

What makes a great founder? Can the requisite skills and traits be learned or are they innate? Industry experts discuss the pressing questions.

What makes a great founder?

Women are massively under-represented among venture-backed entrepreneurs and VC investors. This is in spite of evidence that women-founded companies have shown higher levels of growth and returns than their men-founded counterparts. Join this session to learn why investing in women is just good business.

Investing in women makes for good business

It's estimated that fewer than one percent of startups get the chance to become a unicorn. In this session, expert panelists use 10 years of survey and funding data to discover what internal and external factors affect startup success. They also focus on what founders, and the policymakers supporting them, can do to create an environment that increases the chances of achieving scale-up – and even unicorn – status.

Gina Gotthilf

Co-founder & COO

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