We have a pipeline problem, they said.

Société Générale & 50inTech are joining forces to promote startups run by women

For years, I heard a bunch of excuses on why women were not promoted - kids, availability, competencies, localisation. But the pipeline of female technology executives is there and growing. At my previous employer, we went right to the data to debunk the myths and built our talent pipeline in digital, innovation and data; And we're doing it again this time between Société Générale x 50inTech to identify this pipeline and create a network of influence where they can benefit from tips.

Take action today: Société Générale and 50inTech are calling on all women entrepreneurs in Europe to show up and register on the 50inTech platform. We encourage you to apply to call to applications to be seen and help us build a qualified pipeline.

Let’s support the growing pipeline with the Female Founder Challenge

This month, we are very proud to launch the second edition of the Female Founder Challenge with 50inTech and VivaTech: bold women entrepreneurs raising seed round to Series B and selected by top international VCs. 

Société Générale, in partnership with 50inTech and VivaTech launches the Female Founder Challenge with two main objectives:

• accelerate the financing of women-led startups,
• involve VC funds to commit to more parity in financing.

Are you a female founder, co-founder, CEO or co-CEO of an international startup wishing to raise funds, be it seed, series A or B? Applications deadline: March 27th, 2020. Discover more here and send your applications today!

Take a minute to celebrate the one already working with us!

We're also lucky enough in Societe Generale to have some amazing executives women as part of the SG Ventures portfolio our in our work with incubators which I want to celebrate as part of IWD2020: Tiphaine Saltini (NeuroProfiler, CEO), Charlotte Gaudin (AML Factory, CEO), Nathalie Benchetrit (AssurConnect, CEO), Anne-Claire Jeancolas (Kesitys, CEO), Annabelle Delestre (Lidix, CEO), Géraldine Gosselin (PayKrom, Chief Brand Officer) Alexandra Rougier (UDeal, COO), Flavie Turbaux (Turbo Cereal, CFO), Ma?liza Seymour (CodistAI, CEO), Emilie Thebault (Serendptech, CEO), Sophie Bernstein (MoneyWalkie, CMO), Stéphanie Biron de Prisméa as well as our fund of fund Ruth Foxe Blader (Anthemis), Aurélie Van Peteghem (Daphni head of community), Cécilia Lundborg (Daphni - Investment team), Alisson Imbert (Partech - Investor), Romane Assou (Partech - Corp. Dev team), Gabrielle Thomas (BlackFin)

More? Find back my career tips on the 50inTech Podcast-to-Go Episode#5: “How to create your own opportunities to get the job of your dreams”

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1/ Work your authenticity. When I look back at my career, at the last 16 years I’ve worked as a consultant for 7 years. My senior bosses told me: you really need to work in your authenticity, keep it and make it to the profit of our clients. And to some extent you know as a very junior consultant and you also have to deliver, be targeted and it’s a job where you are selling assignments, so people also want to to be rendered, be lean and etc.

And I believe that standing for myself, standing from my personality, I’ve probably made a big difference for later. And that’s not always an easy choice to make because sometimes you are surrounded by your environment and it’s hard to put yourself in other shoes and say this is really what I want to do. You have influence in different ways. So I think working in this authenticity is critical.

2/ Be curious and be enthusiastic about what you do. I always consider a job is what you do, day in and day, out to serve the purpose of the strategy of the company you’re working for being a startup or being a large company. And there is a lot of ways that you will explore that may be not related directly to your job that can to help you to build that.

That’s what made a big difference. Being interested by that or being interested to really support some of the fintech that were there or some of the accelerators made a difference about the perception but also my ability because I ended up to just enjoy everything I do. A lot of time people say: oh, your work on a Saturday morning. but for me I don’t “work”, you know, I learn, I love it because I’m curious and because I always maintain this state of mind.

3/ Build around you a network and a team, especially if you are a woman. The reality is maybe when you are a man, some days it’s a little bit more easy because you have the support of your wife that is there and I think it’s changing. You have to build your support network, you have to build it at home, you have to build it at work and you have to build it especially around senior mentorship and sponsorship.

You should not be frightened to go to pitch the most senior people of your network or to create this meeting with CEOs, start a conversation and try to find what is on their mind and where you have a mutual interest and ask for the mentorship.

Because today I cannot believe that any CAC 40 or any CEO of the industry is not interested by having a perspective of a digital leader or a tech CEO in an environment that is not exactly that where they work.

Go and find these big sponsors. This has helped me to grow a lot. And now what I’m looking is more junior mentors because I always need to stay in tune with this Tech sector that is constantly evolving.

I think the growth mindset is definitely something that is needed for the next decade.