Vine News-November
This is your monthly round-up of vine news: upcoming jobs, funding, event opportunities, and resources shared across the community. Send us your requests and let us celebrate your achievements by getting in touch: community@foundervine.com
Founder Spotlight
This month we are celebrating Tiffany Chiu. She is the founder of JulieMay Lingerie and an alumnus of our Immerse sales & marketing accelerator in partnership with Lloyds Bank. She believes that innovation and marketing are crucial pillars for all businesses across all sectors.
Read Tiffany’s experience here.
Vine Community News
In November, we have been working to provide you access to resources, launched new programmes to help accelerate your journey and advocate the needs of our ecosystem.
- We have collaborated with WeWork again to launch the Diverse Founders Programme — providing an All Access hot desk workspace to diverse early-stage entrepreneurs in the UK and Ireland
Apply Now - We will be working with Talents Unlimited to help start-ups reach their full potential by better identifying and managing the unique talents required for their organisations
- We have partnered with Amazon Web Services to launch the Futures in Tech programme. 15 aspiring women and non-binary people will have the opportunity to build both technical and soft skills
Apply Now - Our Chief Executive Officer Izzy Obeng was featured in a TIMES article featuring black founders to mark UK Black Business Week. She talks about the problems of carving out a career without a strong network to rely on
Check out the article here - The latest cohort of 50 businesses participated in our Barclays Black Founder Accelerator Demo Day, where they gave a brief video presentation about their companies before being questioned by a panel of industry experts. Foundervine had a fantastic third year of working with Barclays Eagle Labs to help entrepreneurs grow!
- Foundervine won the new Diversity Champion of the Year on the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards! Foundervine will keep breaking down the social and financial barriers that prevent diverse founders from innovating in our society
Vine Community Shout Outs:
- Shoutout to Pamela Aculey and Stella Dyer, who both won the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator Demo Day Peoples Choice Awards.
Check out MIXD Reality here. Check out Millicent Here - Shoutout to Enock Ebbah. Who was selected for the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Programme UK. He will share his insight on LinkedIn around sustainability. Click here to follow his LinkedIn.
Do you have a recent milestone you would like to share? Perhaps you’ve been featured in the news, launched a new product, received funding or developed a new resource: get in touch to let us know!
Upcoming events
- 23rd November at 12:30 pm: Do you want to learn how to improve user experience on your business website? The Decarbonise your website workshop will teach you how to improve your user experience, make it more inclusive and use less data, which means fewer carbon emissions Register your interest
- 23rd November at 4:00 pm: Join getting started with the greening business! This event will provide the first steps you can take to create a business with a purpose that will have a positive impact on our society and the planet
Register your interest - 24th November at 6:00 pm: Start-up magazine hosts an event to discuss how to support your well-being at work. They’ll be presenting you with a fantastic keynote on burnout, how to prevent it, and how to deal with it
Register your interest - 30th November at 6.30 pm: Do you want to learn what skills are necessary to become your own boss? Join Claud Williams FRSA on our FREE virtual WrayForward community business workshop on Becoming Your Own Boss
Apply now
Funding Feature
- Fundsquire is a platform which provides different funding to ensure cash flow during the project
Click here to see the different funding services they provide - Crowdfund Lambeth: In an effort to make Lambeth a distinctive place to live, work, learn, and conduct business, Lambeth Council and Crowdfunder have partnered to support initiatives, groups, and organisations throughout the Borough. They offer up to £5,000 in funds for supporting Lambeth communities
Click here to check your eligibility - Black Business Fund 2022: Black-owned restaurants with fewer than five restaurants can apply for grants from the fund. 25 restaurants will receive £10,000 each, as well as access to mentoring from Enterprise Nation to provide a valuable boost to their businesses
Apply by the 25th of November
Are you focused on raising your first Seed (£250k — £1.5m) or Series A (£1–10m) investment rounds? Get in touch with the community team to see how we might be able to support you.
Resources
- Disso, is an open collaboration platform for students and start-ups to solve real-world problems through university-accredited research. You can publish scientific articles to help build brand product credibility and access innovation funding
Click here to sign up - Check out this video by Lindani Njie, a leadership development coach who joined our Immerse Video Series to discuss 3 Attributes of Being a Leader in Business
Click here to watch the video - Check out this video by Glenn Bemment and Akeem Bundu-Kamara. They joined our Immerse Video Series to discuss How to Make Business More Sustainable.
Click here to watch the video
Jobs
- Natwest is hiring for a 12-month fixed-term ecosystem manager
Apply here - Gapwhiz has collaborated with an education consultancy to offer a remote freelance social media assistant
Email: james@themedicportal.com - Omnea is hiring a full-time product designer
Apply on the Omnea website
For the full list of upcoming events, accelerator programmes, funding and job opportunities click here.
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