Investing in Diverse Founders in Nordics w/ Nora Bavey (Unconventional Ventures)

Nov 25, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC)

Stockholm

Welcome to our fireside chat with Nora Bavey General Partner at Unconventional Ventures and Co-Founder at the UV Accelerator, the first digital accelerator for diverse founders.

Virtual event
Fireside Chat

About this event

Too many great ideas, entrepreneurs and solutions stay overlooked and unsupported due to them not conforming to what is known, and thereby expected, by the traditional investment landscape. For some, they are unconventional, but unconventional is often what the world needs in order to change.

Welcome to our fireside chat with Nora Bavey General Partner at Unconventional Ventures and Co-Founder at the UV Accelerator, the first digital accelerator for diverse founders. Unconventional Ventures invests in startups in the pre-seed and seed stage led by diverse founders identifying as women, people of color, immigrants and/or LGBTQ+, building scalable impact tech companies in the Nordics and beyond.

In this fireside chat, we discuss:

⭐️ Why is the VC & Tech landscape still closed?

⭐️ Is Nordics better- or worse-off compared to the rest of the world?

⭐️ How should diverse founders overcome systematic racism and ecosystem barriers?

⭐️ Which founders / groups are the hardest hit?

⭐️ What is the long-term impact of a closed and non-diverse startup ecosystem?

⭐️ What are the long-range solutions for correcting the VC & Tech space around DEI?

⭐️ What's the big vision / why for Unconventional Ventures?

⭐️ What's the funding capacity and focus of the fund - how should founders reach team?

⭐️ Nora is outspoken around issues considered a taboo or politically incorrect in terms of the traditional narrative of the VC world - does the VC and tech world put "a pressure to conform" on Nora or other similar outspoken voices?

⭐️ Audience Q&A and open-mic!

The discussion will be moderated by Naimul Abd,

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Nora Bavey

    Unconventional Ventures

    General Partner

Host

  • Naimul Abd

    Founder Nutty Ventures

    CEO Connect Öst

Organizers

  • Naimul Abd

    Startup Grind

    Regional Director Nordics Startup Grind

  • Himanay Khajuria

    Startup Grind

    Community Lead

  • Vera Ulitenko

    Startup Grind

    Community Lead

Partners

Brim Global AB logo

Brim Global AB

Coompanion Stockholm logo

Coompanion Stockholm

Impact Hub Stockholm logo

Impact Hub Stockholm

Founder Institute Nordics logo

Founder Institute Nordics

Unconventional Ventures logo

Unconventional Ventures

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