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Pro Bono: Foundervine

Pro Bono: Foundervine

Overview

Providing a platform for innovative young people from under-represented communities, Foundervine are at the forefront of changing the face of entrepreneurship.

Travers Smith has been involved with Foundervine since March 2019, providing mentors for their events including hosting an Africa Tech hub over a weekend in October 2019 to support 60 aspiring tech entrepreneurs build start-ups from scratch.

DID YOU KNOW

Less than 1% of venture capital funding goes to black founders globally. Less than 2% goes to women.

The programs established by Foundervine help early and revenue stage founders enhance and grow their investor networks, get their business operations off the ground, and benefit from mentorship and the development of business know-how from leaders in their fields.

We have appeared at numerous other such events and have been the sole legal mentors the Lloyds Investment Readiness Accelerator Programme and several Barclays Black Founder Accelerator programmes hosted by Foundervine. As part of these programmes, lawyers from our Corporate, Tax and TCT teams have provided mentoring sessions and delivered masterclasses to 100s of founders to help them develop their businesses. Our CME team recently delivered a masterclasses on 'Legal Essentials for Entrepreneurs' which helps participants establish solid legal foundations for their ventures and our Funds team also delivered a ‘Pitching for Investment’ masterclass along with one of our VC clients.

1%
<1% of venture capital funding goes to Black founders globally
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<2% goes to women

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