“To tackle the investment diversity gap, we have to put weight behind it”: Interview with Borski Funds partner, Simone

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In November 2019, Borski Fund raised its first €21 million with the participation of three leading Dutch banks – ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank and 22 exit-entrepreneurs. After 10 years as a M&A lawyer, I became an entrepreneur, having co-founded IENS in 1998, a leading Dutch restaurant and reservation website that sold to TripAdvisor at the end of 2014. At Borski Fund we have a diverse team supporting women founders and the scale-ups of their startups. What advice would you give to startups with female and underrepresented founders, who are currently experiencing pushback? We do bi-weekly coffee mornings, teams with a pitch deck have half-hour during these meetings, then they get more face time with Borski Fund if they match our criteria.

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