Ministry of Awesome and PledgeMe - 'Fund Female Founders' 11 March 2025

Join Our 'Fund Female Founders' Investment Showcase - 11 March 2025!

Funding is one of the most significant hurdles women face when scaling their businesses. And with your support, we're changing that. 

We’ve helped 9 women-led companies successfully raise just under $700k across our two previous events, with a 75% success rate of those that launched.  We want to do it again for International Women’s Day this year.

The teams behind Ministry of Awesome and PledgeMe have joined forces again to launch a group of women-led crowdfunding campaigns on Tuesday, 11 March, and we invite you to join us live as we celebrate, support, and fund these remarkable women.

How’s it going to work?

This is an online event where we'll be unveiling and celebrating some exceptional campaigns throughout the hour, ranging from investment rounds to rewards-based crowdfunding*. 

By registering for this event, you will be in the “room” with these inspiring women, hearing their stories, getting your questions answered, and learning a bit as well. 

Check out some of the previous campaigns:

• Norish
• Speak Scents
• Seasick
  
  

The 2025 showcase line up…coming soon!

Special Guest Speaker: Ellen K. Pao

Ellen is an investor and advocate. She is cofounder and CEO of the award-winning diversity and inclusion nonprofit Project Include. At Reddit, she was the first tech CEO to ban revenge porn, unauthorized nude photos, and online harassment. She has been a venture capital investor for 7 years and an angel investor for the past 12 years with a total of 50 investments over her career. She has also worked in tech companies and as a lawyer. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Time, and The Hollywood Reporter. She earned an electrical engineering degree from Princeton, and law and business degrees from Harvard. Her efforts to call attention to discrimination issues have led to the term the “Pao effect.”

Ellen's Op Eds: 

• LA Times: There’s a clear way to regulate Facebook, TikTok and other social media
• Washington Post: Elon Musk’s vision of ‘free speech’ will be bad for TwitterNYT: Has anything really changed for women in tech?

Spots are limited, so get in quick! Register now to attend this online event. 

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*A rewards-based campaign is for anyone looking to raise money to make their plans happen! The campaigners offer rewards like their product or experiences in return for pledges. Learn more

*Equity Crowdfunding is a way for companies to raise investment by offering shares to their customers, family and friends online. Learn more