Kingsley Napley shines a light on forging women’s empowerment worldwide, with Sarah Turner

As we choose to challenge by championing women’s equality, and as part of the International Women’s Day interview series, Roberta Draper talks to Sarah Turner, CEO and co-founder of Angel Academe. Sarah talks about challenging stereotypes that still exist in the male-dominated areas of technology and investment, and how women often have to work a lot harder to establish their credibility outside of traditionally female areas.

Sarah discusses the incredible work Angel Academe does with women founders and investors to address the gender imbalance that still exists. She also discusses both the lack of funding going to female-founded businesses and the low number of women participating as angel investors, how these issues are linked, and how diversity leads to better decisions and returns.

About Sarah Turner

Sarah is an entrepreneur and angel investor in women-founded tech businesses through Angel Academe. Sarah has had a long career in digital technology across the UK, Europe, the US and Asia.

She co-founded Angel Academe with Simon Hopkins in 2014 to encourage more women to become angel investors in tech startups. She has grown the network to approximately 400 registered investors (70% women) who have collectively invested in 35 high-growth, women-led tech startups.

About Roberta Draper

Roberta is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team. She advises startup founders, angel investors and established businesses on a variety of corporate and commercial legal matters. She advises on early-stage investments, share option schemes, shareholder agreements, share buybacks, and company sales and acquisitions.