In a walking monologue filmed in St. James's Park, London, the speaker promotes the upcoming InvestHER Summit in Dublin, a global, action‑focused event aimed at improving access to capital and markets for women entrepreneurs. The talk outlines the summit’s mission to fund 1 million women entrepreneurs by 2030 and describes its key components: a global pitch competition, an investor showcase, a marketplace where attendees can buy directly from women‑run businesses, and policy sessions featuring government leaders. The speaker highlights recent UK Treasury support—a £250 million fund for women entrepreneurs—and shares success stories from the previous year’s pitch competition, where winners raised $1 million to $3.5 million and secured high‑profile opportunities. The call to action invites women founders to apply, investors and policymakers to attend, and those unable to travel to purchase gifted‑access tickets for women entrepreneurs. The video blends scenic descriptions of London with persuasive encouragement to join the summit and support the broader movement for fairer funding for women‑led ventures.
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Hello everybody. Welcome to another walk and talk. This time from London, the beautiful city of London. I am in St. James Park. You're going to see the London Eye behind me and I believe it's Buckingham Palace. So the London London people, please tell me if I'm wrong behind me there. But I am delighted to be with you today. Let's go for a little walk around London and in St. James Park. And the reason I'm here is I'd like to. Talk about our mission, InvestHER Summit, why we are creating this gathering place, because we want to bring together the world's people who care about women entrepreneurs and funding them, getting them funding, fairer funding for women entrepreneurs, and more access to capital, access to markets. And so we're super excited. We are putting on an amazing summit for you in Dublin. It's a global summit, an action summit. It's not a blah blah summit. It's a place where You're going to see incredible women entrepreneurs from 7 sector families. We have a global pitch competition. We showcase investors from those sector families who are doing a great job investing in women. Look at these beautiful trees and you can hear the ducks. And we also are going to have a marketplace. You can actually walk and buy directly from women entrepreneurs. It is fantastic. It's really going to be something special and I would love you to join us. So whether you are a woman entrepreneur and you are looking for funding or you're about to, come join us. Come meet the incredible investors we're bringing there for you from around the world. Whether you are investors who are already investing in women entrepreneurs or are about to, come and learn from those of you who've walked those steps already. And come learn from the policy shapers, the people who are writing the policies and changing the funding ecosystem from the government and from cities, come learn from them so that you know what to expect, you know what's happening in your ecosystem and what are all the sources of funding that are out there, what's happening, the laws that are changing that are going to unleash more funding. I'm just out from an incredible meeting from the UK Treasury, you know, and so proud to showcase what they're doing. They have just created a fund, a £250 million pound fund to invest in women entrepreneurs after 3 incredible reports that they've been doing. So hopefully we're going to have somebody from the UK government to come and share all about their incredible work, what they are doing to unlock capital for women entrepreneurs. So come join us. We'd love to see you in the beautiful home city of Dublin. If you've never been, honestly, you're in for a treat. And what can you expect? You can expect incredible networking, incredible community, and all of us pulling together with the same mission to get 1 million women entrepreneurs funded by 2030 together, locking hands together because we believe community is capital. So thanks for being with us today. I'm here looking at the beautiful ducks and, you know, this is such a beautiful park, so I'm enjoying wonderful, beautiful London. And well, come to Dublin. See more, learn more in the link below. And also, last message I want to say to you is if— sorry for the beep beeps— if you can't come, you can still support women entrepreneurs because we have created special access tickets where you can gift her access. So you can pay for a woman entrepreneur to go who couldn't normally afford to go so she can network with investors she can build new partnerships. And yeah, you're going to learn more. We will share also about our Global Pitch Competition. I'm giving you a walking tour of everything, but the Global Pitch Competition is now open. So if you're a woman founder, start applying. If you have a business, an MVP or a product that's already working, come apply. Last year we had 6 incredible winners. from around the world, and one of them went on to raise a $1 million pre-seed round, another went on to raise a $3.5 million pre-Series A round, and a third went on to be part of a presidential delegation with President Macron to Brazil. Not bad! We chose wisely. Our jury did an amazing job. So I'm just saying, come join us if you believe that women entrepreneurs deserve fairer access to funding because they're brilliant and they just deserve it. Why? So that they can— fairer access to funding and fairer access to markets so that they can unlock incredible creativity, incredible innovation, because women see different problems and solve them differently. So look, what a better way To end our walk today, look, I'm on the street with all the beautiful British flags here beside beautiful St. James's Park and the rain. It's starting to rain, but hey, I'm Irish. I can hack it. Listen, have a great day. Check out the links before below. Learn about the summit. Even if you can't come, you can support this change. You can support by gifting access to Woman Entrepreneur and sharing about the summit. Just spread the word. We're here to make change together. More than a movement, more than a summit, I would say it's a movement. Join us.
