During the lecture, Lena Mazhuga talked about how companies get enough financing, how to attract investments from the USA and Western Europe, what areas of product development to follow today, as well as about opportunities in times of crisis.
Lena Mazhuga is an investment manager at Genesis Investments with extensive experience in venture capital, investor relations, public relations, and screening startups for capital increase readiness.
Olga's seminar is called "Investors are also people", and it is not for nothing. As part of the Female Leadership Program, she talked about investors and relationships with them, how a startup can attract funding, and what, in fact, a business needs in order to be financed.
Olga Afanasyeva - executive director of the Ukrainian Association of Venture and Private Capital (UVCA), co-founder of VC ChatrOOm and ambassador of Ukraine European Women in Venture Capital joins the team of experts of the Female Leadership Program!
Olga is an expert in management, business development, establishing business relations, venture capital and investments, as well as fundraising.
Olesya Malyovana is the CEO of GrantCore, grant management consultant, head of the board of the Ukrainian Hub.
Olesya shared information about grant programs available in Ukraine that operate in the field of entrepreneurship support. She spoke about the rules for drawing up grant applications and communications with donor organizations.
"It is very important that as many girls as possible learn about such programs. So, in June of this year, 20 Ukrainian women took part in the WISE24 international initiative for women. 6 of them presented their projects in the final to thousands of investors from all over the world. We are moving in the right direction and we still need support, which can now be found in global funds," the expert expresses her opinion.
Ari Khorie has many years of experience working in the WOMEN'S STARTUP LAB (Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, USA) accelerator for women in technology businesses, and in her interview for the NGO "Ukrainian Hub" she shared the history of the accelerator's creation, the difficulties along the way, as well as her vision of development. women's businesses in the world.
