. • What’s needed: o We need a co-investment fund for women founders to support underfunded sectors o Aligning more public capital with private high-risk capital for SME growth o Education for more women to understand angel investing as a tax efficient (higher risk) asset class o Policy changes to enable wealth managers to do more than signpost angel investing o HMRC to review EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) for sectors / women led o Bottle the expertise from women role models that have successfully sold /exited Speaker 3 – Ana Stewart • I would highlight as per the pathways report challenges with funding is a very deep rooted problem and we want to make sure we supporting female led businesses to start and scale their businesses but obviously there are still many structural barriers – this is rooted in education, policies, and challenges around primary care burdens etc that limit the number of females succeeding in entrepreneurship • The challenge with access to funding on its own is a key challenge - but on its own it won’t resolve wider issues which all need to be addressed - which hopefully in the Pathways report, it touches on many of those themes • Being a founder myself, the progress that has been made thanks to orgs like Mint and WES and AccelerateHer, we are seeing so many more women connecting with each other 4 • The 2.6p (findings in the Linc Scotland report) is an embarrassing statistic • In the last 5 years, £9.5 billion of institutional investment has gone towards early-stage growth companies in Scotland and only £170 million of that has gone to female led companies • What can we do o Initiatives such as pathways fund and pre...