InvestHer Podcast

InvestHer Podcast is a podcast for women entrepreneurs who want to learn about funding and get funded faster, and for investors and ecosystem players who want to learn more about what it's really like for female founders in the world of funding today.It's a behind the scenes look at the funding tactics and strategies that really work, to give women founders more confidence to get the funding you deserve to take your business to the next level. Each episode will be short, energetic and action-oriented, giving you lots of practical funding tips, so that you can get investor-ready, get the funding you need and back to building your business, FASTER.Join entrepreneur, consultant, TEDx speaker and women's advocate, Anne Ravanona, as she shares how to put the fun back into funding for female founders, with real truths about what it's like for women entrepreneurs in the funding world today, inspiring and practical interviews with the investors who actually do fund women-led companies, as w

InvestHer Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 54 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #70

  Stop Fighting a Rigged System: Allison Byers on Raising Capital on Your Terms

  Oct 2, 20261h 4mS4

  "I didn't fail. I didn't understand the system that I was working in, and the system is broken." Stop Fighting a Rigged System: Allison Byers on Raising Capital on Your Terms! In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Allison Byers, Founder, CEO, and Author, about the systemic barriers underestimated founders face in fundraising, why venture capital was never designed for most of us, and how her new book Fundraising for the Rest of Us arms founders with the playbook, the language, and the mindset shifts they need to raise capital on their own terms. Discover how Allison Byers transformed a deeply personal experience of watching the all-male team that acquired her MIT-spun medtech company raise $55M where she could not into a career dedicated to dismantling the systemic barriers in capital allocation — co-authoring California's landmark Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies Law, building Scroobious as a relationship-first capital access platform, and writing the fundraising guide that underestimated founders have always needed. Don't miss this episode with actionable insights on: • Why venture capital was never designed to fund most innovators • How familiarity bias quietly drives capital allocation decisions • The Core 10 pitch deck framework and the risk each section must de-risk • Reframing prevention-oriented questions into promotion-oriented answers in real time • Building an Ideal Investor Profile before you ever open a pitch conversation • Why silence from investors is data — and how to break through it with curiosity • Choosing capital sources that match how you want to build If you are building for a world that does not yet fully fund you, this episode is your next step. Listen Now | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes About Allison Allison Byers is a founder, investor, and capital access advocate whose career is devoted to building a funding system that works for The Rest of Us. She is the Founder and CEO of Scroobious, a relationship-first platform connecting underestimated founders with aligned capital, and the author of Fundraising for the Rest of Us. Allison co-authored California's landmark Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies Law and serves on multiple boards shaping the future of equitable investing. She draws on her own experience co-founding a medtech company spun out of MIT, raising nearly $10 million, and bringing an FDA-registered product to market — and on the painful lesson that followed — to give every underestimated founder the knowledge and confidence to navigate the funding landscape. Website: https://www.scroobious.com LinkedIn: https://www.allisonbyers.com ️ Catch Allison's previous episode: https://bit.ly/InvestHerPodcastEp44InvestinginChangeAllisonByersScroobious About Scroobious Scroobious is a relationship-first capital access platform designed to connect underestimated founders with the investors most likely to understand, champion, and fund them. The platform operationalises the principle that trust precedes capital — helping founders build the right relationships before they ever need to make an ask. Scroobious sits at the intersection of education, community, and deal flow, giving The Rest of Us the infrastructure the traditional funding system was never built to provide. Resources Mentioned Scroobious — relationship-first capital access platform: https://www.scroobious.com Connect with Allison Byers on LinkedIn / personal website: https://www.allisonbyers.com Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her https://www.investherpodcast.com/ Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ ️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ Want to suggest a guest for the InvestHer Podcast? https://www.investherpodcast.com/suggest-a-guest #InvestHerPodcast #InvestHer #WomenFounders #FemaleFounders #WomenEntrepreneurs #FundraisingForTheRestOfUs #Scroobious #AllisonByers #FundingToolkit #CapitalAccess #StartupFunding #UnderestimatedFounders #InvestorBias #WomenInVC

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  Episode #69

  Get Off the Fence: Renate Crollini's Blueprint for Women Who Are Ready to Build

  Sep 25, 202635 minS4

  "If you are a female founder and you've had this idea in the back of your head for a day, a week, a month, a year, 10 years — get off the fence and do something." Get Off the Fence: Renate Crollini's Blueprint for Women Who Are Ready to Build! In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Renate Crollini, General Manager of Tech Ready Women, about how Australia's leading accelerator for female founders is turning ideas into investment-ready businesses — in just eight weeks. Renate unpacks the startup and investment readiness programmes that have served over 6,500 women, the community that keeps founders supported between cohorts, and the practical, no-excuses philosophy that has seen 40% of programme graduates go on to raise seed funding. Discover how Renate Crollini went from a 12-year career in sustainability and large-scale infrastructure in New York City to returning to Australia, finding herself hooked on the startup world, and ultimately stepping into the role of General Manager at Tech Ready Women, where her lived founder experience now shapes every programme she designs and delivers. Don't miss this episode with actionable insights on: • How Tech Ready Women's eight-week model drives faster, more focused founder transformation • Why connecting to your founder 'why' matters most before anything else • Bringing tech back into Tech Ready: vibe coding, AI agents, and MVPs in two hours • Knowing your numbers inside out — the non-negotiable for any funding conversation • Building a warm-introduction culture in Australia's risk-averse investment landscape • Why customer revenue is still the best funding you can get • Creating community between programmes so no female founder has to go it alone If you know a woman with an idea the world needs, send her this episode. Listen Now | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes About Renate Renate Crollini is the General Manager of Tech Ready Women, where she leads the commercialisation and scaling of the organisation, overseeing founder programmes, partnerships, and revenue strategy. Her career spans engineering, large-scale infrastructure, corporate advisory, not-for-profits, and startups across Australia, New York City, and beyond, giving her a rare depth of lived experience she brings directly into every programme she designs. Alongside her role at Tech Ready Women, Renate is the Co-Founder of Adaluma, an ESG data-verification platform helping banks, corporates, and governments access real-time, audit-ready sustainability data. Known for translating complex data and policy challenges into clear, practical pathways, she is equally at home on a construction site, in a boardroom, or in a startup pitch room — and equally passionate about all three. Website: https://www.techreadywomen.academy/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatecrollini About Tech Ready Women Tech Ready Women is Australia's leading accelerator and education platform for female founders, having supported over 6,500 women across nine years of operation. Through practical eight-week programmes spanning startup fundamentals, AI enablement, and investment readiness, Tech Ready Women meets founders wherever they are on their journey — from first idea through to raising capital. Owned by Scalari Group, the organisation pairs award-winning online learning with live workshops, small-group coaching, and a growing alumni community called Female Founder Grow, ensuring no founder has to navigate the startup journey alone. Resources Mentioned Tech Ready Women — Website: https://www.techreadywomen.academy/ Connect with Renate Crollini on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatecrollini Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her https://www.investherpodcast.com/ Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ ️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ #InvestHerPodcast #InvestHer #WomenFounders #FemaleFounders #WomenEntrepreneurs #TechReadyWomen #Australia #FemaleFounderAustralia #StartupAustralia #InvestmentReady #AIForFounders #FundingReadiness #WomenInTech #StartupCommunity

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  Episode #68

  Radical Truth: Robert Rubinstein Exposes the Impact Investing Illusion

  Sep 18, 20261h 20mS4

  "It's not about getting a yes; it's about getting an answer." Radical Truth: Robert Rubinstein Exposes the Impact Investing Illusion! In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Robert Rubinstein, Chairman of TBLI Group and Verdama Earth, about the radical truth behind sustainable finance — from the systemic flaws in ESG measurement and the fees-first culture of impact investing, to the extractive patterns inside venture capital and what founders, women investors, and retail investors can actually do about it. Discover how Robert Rubinstein went from working on oil rigs in Iran and Texas to launching a bicycle magazine in Amsterdam, losing everything on a wholesome food publication, and ultimately finding his life's purpose: building the world's longest-running global forum for sustainable finance, influencing over $50 trillion in assets, and spending nearly three decades telling the financial sector things it doesn't always want to hear. Don't miss this episode with actionable insights on: • Tying ESG fund fees to real environmental output, not assets under management • Why access to the real decision-maker is the actual bottleneck, not buy-in • How founders underestimate the true time cost of fundraising, from outreach to closing • Bootstrapping all the way to a multi-billion-dollar exit, no outside capital needed • Three questions to ask before taking any investor's money • Why Robert's viral 'Impact Mafia' article struck a nerve with 150,000 readers • Crowdfunding as a faster, more democratic path to capital for women founders If you're ready to stop cutting ribbons and start getting things done, this episode is your permission slip. Listen Now | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes About Robert Robert Rubinstein is the founder and Chairman of TBLI Group and the originator of the Triple Bottom Line (TBLI) investment framework — a pioneering approach that has influenced over $50 trillion in assets and channelled $1.3 trillion into sustainable investments over more than 28 years. He is the creator of the TBLI CONFERENCE™, the world's longest-running global sustainable finance forum, which has convened sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and major investment institutions across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America. Robert has advised the US State Department, the Dutch Ministry of Finance, and addressed institutions including Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, the World Bank, and the UN Environment Programme. Author of the forthcoming book Radical Truth, he is also the host of The Radical Truth podcast and the founder of TrustVC, a transparency platform for the VC and private equity industry. Website: https://www.tbligroup.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tbli/ Twitter (X): https://x.com/tbli About TBLI Group TBLI Group is the organisation behind the world's longest-running global forum for sustainable and impact finance, dedicated to educating and mobilising institutional investors, family offices, and asset owners toward Triple Bottom Line investing. Through its conferences, masterclasses, virtual mixers, the TBLI Circle private community, and the open-source Better World Prize database — which benchmarks ESG and impact measurement frameworks — TBLI Group has spent nearly three decades building the infrastructure, networks, and honest conversations that sustainable finance actually needs. TBLI Group also operates TrustVC, a Glassdoor-style review platform for venture capital and private equity, bringing transparency and accountability to how investors treat founders and emerging managers. Resources Mentioned TBLI Group — Website: https://www.tbligroup.com Connect with Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ Follow TBLI on X (Twitter): https://x.com/tbli Follow TBLI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tbli/ Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her https://www.investherpodcast.com/ Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ ️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ #InvestHerPodcast #InvestHer #WomenFounders #FemaleFounders #WomenEntrepreneurs #ImpactInvesting #ESG #SustainableFinance #TBLIGroup #RadicalTruth #BootstrapFounders #VCTransparency #TrustVC #TripleBottomLine

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  Episode #67

  Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Kelly Hoey on Building Social Capital That Works

  Sep 11, 20261h 6mS4

  "You've got to give the right network the right job to do." Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Kelly Hoey on Building Social Capital That Works! In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Kelly Hoey, Author, about why women must build networks differently, how social capital translates directly into funding and business growth, and what the research on high-achieving women actually reveals about the structure of their networks. Kelly shares the thinking behind her new book The Social Billionaire, walks through her three-pillar framework of focus, grit, and networks, and gives women founders concrete, practical steps to audit their network, sharpen their asks, and show up authentically online in an AI-driven world. Discover how a former lawyer who reinvented her career through the strength of her own networks — going on to lead a global business network for women, co-found a startup accelerator, angel invest, and serve as an interim CMO — channeled years of academic research and real-world masterminding into The Social Billionaire, a workbook-driven roadmap that gives women the tools to build, leverage, and protect the social capital that accelerates every ambition. Don't miss this episode with actionable insights on: • Building both a broad network and a deep one, and knowing when to call on each • Prioritizing networking with other women as a consistent predictor of achievement • Building investor relationships long before your pitch deck is ready • Replacing the vague goal "I need to get funded" with hyper-specific questions your network can answer • Using AI to build a research dossier, then applying empathy and critical thinking to write a genuinely human message • Why volunteering and community service count as networking • Giving the right network the right job — social-emotional, professional, and industry networks each play a different role If you have one takeaway from this episode, let it be this: your network is not a last resort — it is your greatest strategic asset, and the time to build it is right now. Listen Now | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes About Kelly Kelly Hoey is an author, networking strategist, and sought-after speaker on the transformative power of networks. Her first book, Build Your Dream Network (Tarcher Perigee/Penguin Random House), demystified modern connection for a broad audience, while her second, The Social Billionaire, reveals why women must build networks differently and how the right relationships accelerate every ambition. A former lawyer who reinvented her career through her own network, Kelly has led a global business network for women, co-founded a startup accelerator, angel invested, and served as an interim CMO — all testament to the principles she teaches. She has been recognized by Forbes as one of five women changing the world of VC and entrepreneurship, and by Inc. as one of the ten most well-connected people in New York City's startup scene. Website: https://jkellyhoey.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyhoey/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jkellyhoey/ About The Social Billionaire The Social Billionaire is Kelly Hoey's second book and the definitive networking roadmap for women seeking to flourish and achieve more. Built around research on high-achieving women across industries and geographies, it introduces a practical three-pillar framework — focus, grit, and networks — and is structured as a workbook so readers can learn by doing, not just reading. Whether you are a founder navigating fundraising, a leader pursuing a board seat, or a professional in career transition, The Social Billionaire gives you the tools to audit your network, close the gaps, and deploy your social capital with intention and confidence. Resources Mentioned Kelly Hoey's Website: https://jkellyhoey.co Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyhoey/ Follow Kelly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jkellyhoey/ Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her https://www.investherpodcast.com/ Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ ️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ #InvestHerPodcast #InvestHer #WomenFounders #FemaleFounders #WomenEntrepreneurs #NetworkingForWomen #SocialBillionaire #SocialCapital #FundingToolkit #WomenInBusiness #BuildYourNetwork #WomenLeadership #StartupFunding #KellyHoey

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  Episode #66

  Global Sisterhood: Carine de Meyere on Trade Missions & Angel Investing

  Sep 4, 202656 minS4

  "The biggest mission is just to help women think bigger." Global Sisterhood: Carine de Meyere on Trade Missions & Angel Investing! In this episode of the InvestHer Podcast, host Anne Ravanona speaks with Carine de Meyere, Founder & CEO of Women of the World, about her remarkable journey from women's college graduate and Harvard gender equality researcher to founder, fundraiser, and angel investor — and how she has spent over a decade curating transformative all-female trade missions to Silicon Valley, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and soon China, connecting women entrepreneurs and investors across borders and building what she calls a true global sisterhood. Discover how Carine's lifelong passion for gender equality — ignited at a US women's college in the late 1980s and deepened through graduate research on corporate board diversity at Harvard — shaped her decision to launch Women of the World in 2011, evolving the organisation from a fundraising platform for female founders into a global movement that combines immersive trade missions, angel investing, and cross-border community building to help women entrepreneurs access capital, markets, and their own ambition on a world stage. Don't miss this episode with actionable insights on: • Launching Women of the World in 2011 after a stalled startup and one too many all-male pitch meetings • Opening every trade mission with a cultural day — museums, temples, heritage sites — before a single business meeting • Capping trade mission groups at 15 — big enough for diverse perspectives, small enough for real connection • Running a talking stick ceremony at the start of each mission that turns strangers into a sisterhood • Turning trade mission connections into angel investments, from Silicon Valley's Happyo to women's health company Naptah Health • Women's health as Carine's sharpest investment thesis, and the growing wave of female angels backing it • Why the 2% VC funding stat hasn't moved in 30 years, and what it will actually take to change it If you're ready to think bigger, connect globally, and back women who are changing the world, this episode is for you. Listen Now | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ▶️ Full Show Notes About Carine Carine de Meyere is the Founder & CEO of Women of the World, a global advocacy and fundraising platform she launched in 2011 to accelerate women's access to capital, markets, and each other. Educated at a women's college in the United States and later at Harvard — where she researched gender equality in corporate boards — Carine describes herself as a conduit, an impact investor, and an activist for women's rights, climate, and sustainability. As an angel investor, she has backed women-led companies including Naptah Health and Happyo, and invests alongside Future Planet Capital, Antler, and Asterion Ventures, with a particular focus on women's health. She lives in the Netherlands, where she also serves as Netherlands Delegation Lead for the InvestHer Summit. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carinedemeyere Instagram: https://instagram.com/carinesigfrid About Women of the World Women of the World is a global women's advocacy and fundraising platform founded in 2011 to connect female entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and executives across borders. The organisation is best known for its annual female leadership trade missions to destinations including Silicon Valley, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and — coming soon — China, each carefully curated to combine cultural immersion, high-level business access, and the kind of deep community-building that creates lasting global partnerships. Women of the World operates on the belief that when women think bigger and connect globally, they change the systems around them. Resources Mentioned Women of the World on Instagram: https://instagram.com/womenoftheworldglobal Connect with Anne & Global Invest Her https://www.investherpodcast.com/ Funder Directory: https://funderdirectory.globalinvesther.com/ Buy From Her Directory: https://www.buyfromher.com/ ️ LinkedIn: Anne Ravanona https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ #InvestHerPodcast #InvestHer #WomenFounders #FemaleFounders #WomenEntrepreneurs #WomenOfTheWorld #AngelInvesting #WomensHealth #TradeMissions #GlobalSisterhood #Netherlands #WomenInvestors #GenderEquality #FundingWomen

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