#66: How more women can start to invest in female-led startups with Gillian Fleming

<p>Gillian Fleming's expertise includes Advisor, Investor and Non-Exec to start-up and spin-out companies with 20 years’ experience in the entrepreneurial ecosystem advising and nurturing early-stage ideas through to company creation. Specialising in technology commercialisation her expertise covers energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, engineering, biotech and food &amp; drink sectors.</p> <p>With a grounding in sales and marketing within the energy and engineering sector across Europe she progressed into the University commercialisation and has successfully developed numerous startup / spinout companies from the Universities of Strathclyde, West of Scotland, Heriot Watt and Dundee.</p> <p>Currently, Gillian is Founding Director and CEO of Mint Ventures (Syndicate) Ltd, an angel group focused on investing in women led and diverse teams with a social ethical or environmental purpose. She also represents Kero Developments Partners in Scotland, a private VC that invests in early-stage engineering related start-up companies.</p> <p>She is also Entrepreneurial Scotland Saltire Fellow, a mentor for Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES) as well as being an active angel investor.</p> <p>We cover the following in our conversation:</p> <ul> <li>Female founders&nbsp;</li> <li>Why access to capital continues to be a challenge.</li> <li>Female investors and why more women investing into female led innovation is key.&nbsp;</li> <li>Mint Ventures: the angel syndicate and what they invest in.&nbsp;</li> <li>And how we encourage more women to invest.</li> </ul> <p>***</p>