Female Founders Rise 💥| Advisor | Mum of 4 | Digital + Media + Marketing | Exited Founder

I'm on a mission to make entrepreneurship more accessible.
I set up my first business at 25, and since then, I have successfully set up, grown and sold multiple companies (and had a few failures on the journey too!)
Entrepreneurship is what I love.  

Most recently, I’ve been focused on Female Founders Rise [FFR] - a community of 10K female and non-binary founders 
>> https://femalefoundersrise.com/

I’m also a micro-investor in 30 women-led businesses, a speaker, and co-host of The Fundraising Grind (a podcast about helping you get your business funded with my friend Mae Yip)

At FFR, our mission is to empower women to achieve financial freedom through entrepreneurship.  

We do that through 4 pillars:

➕ Community - we come together for connection, collaboration, and support.  Being a founder can be a lonely journey, and we want to be there for each other

➕ Funding - we've launched Cohort 4 of our fundraising accelerator - a free 8-week program to help 60+ female founders at a time on their fundraising journey

➕ Business Fundamentals - we run regular sessions and masterclasses on all things fundamental to growing a successful, sustainable business

➕ Awareness - we celebrate female founders and help them share their voices.  So far 700+ women have taken part in our personal branding challenge

We have partnered with brands like London Business School, Lloyds Bank, and Google, and hosted events for 100's of women all over the UK.  We have been featured in The Times, Sifted, and Forbes.

Come and join us on our mission 👉 femalefoundersrise.com


Why do I care?

I want the same opportunities for women entrepreneurs as their male counterparts. 
When I heard about the funding gap, I was shocked and decided I'd try and do something about it.  
In the last few years, I have found my "Why" and a great deal of joy from being around so many incredible women doing amazing things.   

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👋 Follow me for daily posts on entrepreneurship, female founders, and my journey investing in women-led businesses.

👉 Join Female Founders Rise free and connect with 10k
female founders >>femalefoundersrise.com
Curated resources, fundraising support, business fundamentals + connection

👉 Find Female Founders Rise on LinkedIn >> https://www.linkedin.com/company/female-founders-rise/

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For paid consultancy/speaking engagements, please enquire at hello@femalefoundersrise.com

Emmie Faust

All go at Female Founders Raise

Kicked off with a brilliant session from Dan Bowyer 

And now hearing from some fab investors 🙌

Jasmin Thomas 
Martin Carruthers 
Rodney Appiah 
😃 David Fogel 

Thank you all for joining us today! 

Let’s go and get more women funded 🚀

Serial Founder building a community of 10K Founders | Sharing the Real Journey of Entrepreneurship + Growth | Join ⤵️

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We help B2B tech co's turn messy growth into focused, repeatable momentum.

You've built groundbreaking tech. Now you need marketing that matches your ambition. 

But you're facing:
-> Complex product messaging that needs simplifying
-> Pressure to show growth for your next funding round
-> Limited time to experiment with marketing
-> The challenge of finding marketing talent who truly gets tech
-> The need for rapid, measurable results

This is where our 100+ years of collective tech marketing expertise comes in.

Our team has scaled giants like Skype and Starling Bank, pivoted startups like Coconut, and built our own successful SaaS and eCommerce ventures. We've lived your challenges.

What makes us different? 

We bring:
->  CMO-level strategy without the overhead
->  A proven, scientific approach to growth
->  Deep tech industry understanding
->  Focus on metrics that matter for funding
->  Speed of execution that matches startup pace
->  Having helped 100+ startups across tech, SaaS, fintech, insurtech, and healthtech scale successfully, we know what works.

No lengthy onboarding. No guesswork. Just data-driven marketing strategies that deliver results.

Ready to scale your tech business with marketing that actually works?

Let's talk.

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"Scale Up identified key messaging that resonateed with our target audience. After just 2 weeks, our messaging was four times as effective”
Ally Fekaiki, Founder and CEO, Juno
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"Lucy and her team have been fully engaged “Snuggsters”, bringing us top drawer marketing talent and taking real ownership of our marketing and overall business success"
Robin Peters, CEO and Co-Founder, Snugg
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"Scale Up has been our guiding star when it’s come to our b2b and b2c marketing strategies. 
This strategy has contributed to to doubling our revenue and traffic to site.”
Rory Cramer, CEO & Co-founder, HomeViews
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Ready to take the guesswork out of your growth journey? Let's talk about your scaling challenges.

Lucy Woolfenden

First proper work day of the year and it always feels a bit like… oh yes, this is what I do for a job 🫠 

The kids are still home until tomorrow but the world of work has kick started (oh inset days, we do love you!!) 

And it’s made me think about something I see every January in marketing teams. The pressure doesn’t really come from the goals but from the open loops - the decisions that keep circling because no one has properly closed them.

Marketing can be where “maybe” lives:
… maybe we should do ABM
… maybe we should post more
… maybe we should go back to paid
… maybe we should redo the messaging
… maybe we should hire someone
… maybe we should wait
So everyone stays busy but nothing gets simpler.

The fastest growth lever isn’t a new channel, it’s closing decisions first.

If you want a starting point, pick one:
-> What do we actually want to be known for this year?
-> What are we prioritising properly (and what are we stopping)?
-> What does “good” look like in the next 90 days so the team can stop guessing?

It's so much harder to be precise and say "no" to things but this is what will drive real growth.

Does this resonate?

(Pic from our team Christmas celebrations)

Growth-focused CMO | Taking the guesswork out of scaling tech brands | 20+ yrs launching success stories from Skype to Starling Bank

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