For Fearless Female Founders

This week’s newsletter highlights a little bit of everything, from female-founder grants to the rise of everywhere commerce. As always, we hope it adds a little value to your venture. Enjoy??

Business Updates, Benefits & Resources

The Bruntwood SciTech Female Founders Incubator

Bruntwood has recently designed a Female Founder Incubator, launching during Leeds Digital Festival in September.

Female-led start-ups are in short supply despite research conducted by MIT indicating companies founded or co-founded by women generate higher revenues than men, and have significantly lower failure rates.?

The new programme, backed by successful founders and CEOs, will nurture and support female founders, as well as improve their access to funding.

Applications close Thursday 8th September. [Apply Here]

Apply for the ￡10,000 Women in Engineering Grant 2022

More funding opportunities for female founders. If you’re the female leader of an enterprise within UK engineering, Get It Made has announced a new grant, which aims to support female-led engineering enterprises and help encourage the next generation of women in UK engineering.

The recipient of this grant will receive ￡10,000 to scale up production and move their business forward. [Read More]

Marketing Highlights

Shopify’s new text-to-buy option marks the rise of ‘anywhere commerce’

Attentive, a text message marketing company, has launched a text-to-buy solution built with Shopify’s Shop Pay accelerated checkout technology.?

The feature allows customers to purchase directly by responding to a promotional message without having to go to a website, load up their shopping carts and check out.

It’s an exciting step forward for anywhere commerce as merchants turn to forms of conversational and embedded commerce to capture sales in the moment, in any channel. [Read More]?

Instagram moves to next stage of development with its native scheduling tools

Could this potentially be a huge win for social media managers on the go? Soon, you may be able to schedule Instagram posts from within the app itself..

Instagram is developing a native post-scheduling process within the app, which will eventually enable users to schedule all of their posts, including Reels and Stories, to go out at set times. [Read more]?

Content of the week?

Monzo’s growth: from ambition idea to the most recommended brand in the UK.

Tom Blomfield, Co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless, has written a long-form article on Monzo’s rapid growth and its customer acquisition strategy in the early days.?

A truly insightful piece and a must-read for any founder. [Read More]

Small Business Spotlight?

Haru (HelpAndReUse)

This week we’re spotlighting Haru.

Haru is a quality second-hand clothing and accessories business, offering everything from vintage to retro, outdoor wear to designer clothing.?

They are committed to lowering their environmental impact in every aspect of their organisation, proudly partnering with over 115 charity shops across the UK and Ireland.?

Co-founder Jacques Hill, said: “We founded Haru (HelpAndReUse) with the aim of making it easy to sell second-hand fashion online and allowing retailers to access the growing second-hand market and make their models more circular. By playing our part in making second-hand fashion the first choice for consumers, we hope to help make the fashion industry more sustainable." [Find out more]