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 * Female Equity
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 * CONNECTING FEMALE FOUNDERS WITH FEMALE INVESTORS THROUGH FUN
   
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 * WHO WE ARE
   
   WOMEN ARE NOW CONTROLLING THE MAJORITY OF THIS WORLDS WEALTH AND WE ARE NOT A
   MINORITY! YET WE ARE TREATED LIKE THAT WHILE WE CONTROL 80% OF THE CONSUMER
   SPENDING AND VC'S INVEST ONLY 3% OF THEIR CAPITAL IN FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS.
   
    
   
   FE IS A NOT FOR PROFIT FOUNDED BY GITTE PEDERSEN AND METTE DYHRBERG, BOTH
   DANISH US BASED ENTREPRENEURS AND IYA KHALIL, FOUNDER OF GNS HEALTHCARE.
   
    
   
   WE WANT TO MAKE THE AMERICAN DREAM REAL AGAIN BY ENABLING WOMEN TO
   PARTICIPATE IN VALUE CREATION THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
   
    
   
   EQUALITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IS IN OUR DNA.
   
    
   
   MISSION: PROVIDE FEMALE FOUNDERS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO FUNDING BY
   
    1. UNCOVER THE UNCONSCIOUS BIAS THAT WE ENCOUNTER AS FEMALE FOUNDERS WHEN WE
       PRESENT FOR INVESTORS AND EFFECTIVELY RESPOND TO THIS BIAS
    2. ENABLE FEMALE FOUNDERS ACCESS TO FUNDING BY CREATING, EXPANDING AND
       LEVERAGING EXISTING NETWORK OF FEMALE ANGEL INVESTORS
    3. TO FACILITATE CHANGE BY CREATING AND BACKING MORE FEMALE RUN ENTERPRISES
       “THERE IS NO GLASS CEILING IN A HOUSE YOU BUILD YOURSELVES”
        
   
   GITTE PEDERSEN
   
   OPINIONED SCIENTIST WITH A MISSION TO CURE CANCER
   
   Gitte Pedersen is a scientist/CEO with a mission to cure cancer. Gitte
   started Genomic Expression together with her brother, Morten Pedersen, after
   her parents were diagnosed with cancer. The company got off the ground as the
   diagnostic partner of a $32M “Genome Denmark” project, and she then raised
   money to establish an independent lab in Boston. Gitte’s dream team to cure
   cancer has tons of start-up DNA from genomics to commercial launch of drugs.
   The unpleasant truth is that only one out of four cancer treatments prolongs
   life. To help rectify this, Genomic Expression finds the best drug for the
   patient and the best patient for the drug by sequencing RNA, which is like
   the software of the cell, instead of DNA, which is like the hard disk. RNA
   analysis can show if a tumor will respond to new immune therapies, which are
   the only kind of therapy that offer a potential cure. Gitte has a master in
   Chemical Engineering and worked for Novo Nordisk in a number of positions
   from R&D to Marketing before she founded Proximity Ventures, an advisory firm
   that assisted biotech companies in Scandinavia enter the US market was well
   as the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on attracting investments into the
   Danish Biotech industry.
   
   METTE DYRBERG
   
   HACKING CHRONIC DISEASE WITH DATA
   
   Mette Dyhrberg is a health innovator who is changing the way we treat chronic
   disease and rethinking the delivery healthcare. She is the CEO and founder of
   Mymee, a digital therapeutics program that reverses the symptoms of chronic
   autoimmune disease through data analytics and health coaching. Her coaching
   methods restore quality of life to people who struggled with less than
   effective treatment plans by the modern medical system. As an authority on
   autoimmune issues, Mette is a frequent speaker at industry events and
   conferences such as Stanford Medicine X and Exponential Medicine. Mette holds
   MS in economics and is a certified health coach. An economist turned
   diagnostician, she’s the Sherlock Holmes of anamnestic data. She first
   entered the functional medicine arena in an attempt to tackle her own chronic
   health issues. In her early twenties, she became severely ill. For years,
   Mette battled an ever-expanding array of medical diagnoses ending up with six
   different autoimmune diseases simultaneously. Mette took matters into her own
   hands, hacked her own health and in doing so, she created a tool that solved
   her health problems and soon began helping others do the same.

 * INSPIRATION
   
   FEMALE EQUITY IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT WITH THE MISSION OF PROVIDING FEMALE
   FOUNDERS EQUAL ACCESS TO FUNDING. THE WAY WE ARE DOING THIS IS BY CREATING A
   NETWORK OF FEMALE INVESTORS AND FOUNDERS THAT SUPPORT EACH OTHER. THE KICK
   OFF IS A WEEKEND RETREAT IN THE HAMPTONS WHERE WE WILL DEVELOP THE FIRST PLAN
   OF ACTION/MANIFESTO WHILE WE ALSO DO FUN ACTIVITIES SUCH AS PADDLE BOARDING.
   THE GOAL IS TO CREATE LASTING RELATIONSHIPS AND THIS IS A BY INVITATION ONLY
   EVENT. THIS IS A BY-INVITATION-ONLY EVENT.
   
   WHY FEMALE EQUITY
   
   EQUITY MEANS JUSTICE, EQUALITY, TRUTH AND INTEGRITY
   
   FE = FEmale without MALE, FE symbolizes iron in the periodic table, and FE
   means “faith” in Spanish and “fairy” in Danish. Gitte and Mette grew up in
   Denmark, which strives for both financial and gender equality and supports
   this aim with a phenomenal framework that provides measures such as paid
   parental leave for both parents and free education and healthcare. In other
   words EQUALITY is in our DNA. We managed to take our companies to where we
   are now by ignoring the inequality. However, with the latest political
   developments and recent reports suggesting that women do not receive the same
   level of funding as men, that’s clearly a problem we need to correct. Female
   Equity aims to do just that by creating a strong network of women who will
   support each other.
   
   THERE IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL FOR WOMEN THAT DON'T HELP EACH OTHER
   
   MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, 1ST FEMALE US SECRETARY OF STATE
   
   Madeleine Albright is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first
   woman to have become the US Secretary of State. She served from 1997 to 2001
   under President Bill Clinton. Because she was an immigrant, she was not
   eligible to be a U.S. presidential successor, and was excluded from nuclear
   contingency plans. During her tenure, Albright considerably influenced
   American policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Middle East. Albright
   supported Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign. While
   introducing Clinton at a campaign event in New Hampshire ahead of that
   state’s primary, Albright said, “There’s a special place in hell for women
   who don’t help each other.”
   
   INVEST IN OTHER WOMEN
   
   PIPELINE ANGELS BY NATALIA OBERTI NOGUERA
   
   Natalia Oberti Noguera is an amazing women who single handedly took upon her
   to change the fact that most women do not angel invest. Her thesis was that
   if she could teach women to invest in other women then we could change the
   landscape. Pipeline Angels now has 50 portfolio companies and 400 female
   angel investors. That is powerful. There are now several networks and
   incubators as well as VC funds that focus on female entrepreneurs and its our
   goal to establish and build out those network.
    
   
   COACHING OTHER FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS
   
   SPRINGBOARD BY KAY KOPLOVITZ
   
   Springboard has been around for more than a decade and have supported many
   women in STEM through coaching to effectively present for VC’s with
   astonishing results. Female VC’s are now hosting open office hours for female
   founders in New York, San Francisco and Boston. New angel groups focused on
   women run business are emerging. The train have left the station. Kay
   Koplovitz founded the USA Network, Chairman & CEO from 1977 until 1998 when
   it sold for $4.5 billion. Kay is the first woman ever to head a television
   network as the founder and former CEO of USA Networks. In 1998, President
   Bill Clinton appointed Koplovitz to chair the bipartisan National Women's
   Business Council. This helped create a platform for her to Co-Found
   Springboard Enterprises in 2000.
   
   WORK AND PLAY IS THE SAME
   
   BILL TAI - ACTAI - FEMALE EQUITY AMBASSADOR
   
   Bill Tai is the founder of the XTC competition which identifies new ground
   breaking technology companies and invites the winners to visit Necker and
   present for Richard Branson. The network of investors and entrepreneurs is
   called ACTAI and meets all over the globe to kitesurf and start new
   companies. Bill invested in CANVA, pitched by Melanie Perkins, and it’s now a
   multi-billion-dollar business. Some men do recognize talent and are willing
   to bet their money on it regardless of location and gender. We need more men
   like Bill, but we also need more women who are willing to invest their
   hard-earned dollar in other women—as angel investors.

 * WHY
   
   "THERE IS NO GLASS CEILING IN A HOUSE YOU BUILD YOURSELVES”
   
   51%
   
   Of the Worlds Population is Female
   
   60%
   
   Of all Wealth is the USA is owned by Women
   
   2%
   
   Of VC $ goes to Female Founders up 0.3% in 20 years
   
   5%
   
   Female CEO's of Fortune 500 companies
   
   11%
   
   Of all funding to female founded companies
   
   15%
   
   Of all board seats are occupied by women
   
   20 YEARS
   
   The typical lifespan of a corporation
   
   80 CENTS
   
   Earned of every dollar men earn

 * THE $4.4 TRILLION DOLLAR BLIND SPOT
   
   INVESTORS ARE MISSING OPPORTUNITIES, SOCIETY GROWTH AND PEOPLE JOBS
   
   ACCORDING TO MORGAN STANLEY
   
   MORGAN STANLEY'S REPORT CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
   
   
 * WHAT WE DO
   
   PULL THE WOOL OFF YOUR EYES AND CONNECT THE DOTS
   
   Whether you’re a man or a woman, we tend to judge women by a different scale
   and that can, in certain situations, be detrimental to their success. Our
   goal is to uncover the unconscious bias female entrepreneurs have to navigate
   in order to raise their funding and develop the next generation of successful
   companies.
   
    
   
   We aim to create strong personal networks that we can leverage to enable
   introductions to female-friendly capital sources and other networks that
   support female entrepreneurs, such as Pipeline Angels and Springboard. By
   sharing our stories in a safe environment, we aim to develop tools and
   strategies as well as new organizations and networks that can support our
   mission, and while we do all this we will have fun and enjoy getting to know
   more amazing women.
   
   THE PITCH IS THE SAME - THE QUESTIONS ARE NOT
   
   We’ve all experienced it. We present at a pitch event and then we get the Q&A
   session, and after that—we wonder what happened. Well, I’m not the only one
   asking myself these questions, and Dana Kanze has done an amazing job at
   QUANTIFYING the detrimental effects of the unconscious bias against female
   entrepreneurs Male lead teams get asked promotion questions; female lead
   teams get asked prevention questions.
   
   Male lead teams get's asked promotion questions female lead teams get asked
   prevention questions
   
   
   
   
   IN THE NEWS
   
   It is impossible to understand whether your experience is unique unless you
   share it with your peers. The #MeToo movement has shed light on a lot of
   inappropriate behavior by certain males who hold a position of power over
   women’s lives. I shared some of my experiences—as published in this article
   in STAT, during the 2018 J.P. Morgan Conference in San Francisco—the largest
   investor conference in healthcare. The response was troublesome. While I must
   stress that this concerns a minority of “bad apples,” a significant number of
   female entrepreneurs experience unwanted advances or comments related to
   their gender. Obviously this needs to stop. Share your stories.
   
   SHARING OUR #METOO STORIES
   
   Gitte Pedersen and Iya Khalil was interviewed in STAT "JPMing while female:
   Women share their experiences at biopharma’s big gathering" click on picture
   to read their story
   
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