Revolutionising sex, tech, and funding: an interview with MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop, an advertising executive turned entrepreneur, is best known for founding MakeLoveNotPorn, a user-generated, human-curated social sex video platform challenging mainstream adult content. With a career spanning advertising, branding, and entrepreneurship, Gallop has been a vocal advocate for sexual positivity, breaking societal taboos, and fostering a more inclusive and diverse conversation around human sexuality.
FUNDRAISING FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS SURVEY RESULTS
Understanding the Unique Challenges Faced by Female Founders: Explore Pink Salt Ventures' survey of 90 women entrepreneurs uncovering the hurdles they face. Our findings, partnered with insights from Dana Kanze of London Business School, shed light on how the gender funding gap plays out. We also include strategies that can help female founders navigate the startup ecosystem more effectively.
SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR JANNEKE NIESSEN TALKS ARCHETYPES IN TECH
Janneke Niessen is the Co-Founder of CapitalT, a leading European seed-stage VC investing in software technology companies. She speaks with us about her experience as an exited founder, the importance of diversity and opportunities for women in tech.
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM EXITED SEXUAL WELLNESS ENTREPRENEUR LEA-SOPHIE CRAMER
Lea-Sophie Cramer founded and sold Amorelie, one of Europe’s leading sexual wellness companies, scaling the company to $65m annual revenue, 15 markets, and 150 employees. She now runs a female leadership Academy, 10morein, and serves as an Industry Advisor to KKR’s Private Equity business.
OLIO FOUNDER TESSA CLARKE ON WINNING EDGE BY SOLVING HUMANITY’S BIG PROBLEMS
Tessa Clarke is the co-founder and CEO of Olio, a mobile app for food sharing. Olio is backed by the likes of Accel, Octopus Ventures and Alumni Ventures, having raised $50M+ till date.
SHARMADEAN REID ON PIVOTING, COMMUNITY AND WOMEN IN BUSINESS
Sharmadean Reid is a visionary entrepreneur and a champion for women. She’s founded magazines, beauty businesses and most recently The Stack World, backed by SoftBank, Index Ventures and Local Globe. In 2015 she was awarded an MBE for services to beauty and women.
DANA BAKI’S JOURNEY BUILDING MUNCH:ON AND EXITING TO RIDE-SHARING GIANT CAREEM
Dana Baki tells us about her journey building MUNCH:ON, a food tech delivery platform in the Middle East. Raising from top tier funds in the region, she came out the other side with an acquisition offer from the region’s ride-sharing giant, Careem.
EVE RODKSY ON THE MAGIC OF FAIR PLAY AND FINDING YOUR UNICORN SPACE
Eve Rodsky is working to change society one partnership at a time by coming up with a new 21st-century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering 2/3 or more of the unpaid domestic work and childcare for their homes and families.
UN WOMEN ON GLOBAL GENDER EQUALITY
With feminists of all stripes reverberating from the US Supreme Court’s decision on Roe vs. Wade, gender equality is no fait accompli! We spoke to Lopa Banerjee and her team at UN Women to get a birds-eye view on where we stand in the world today.
TRISHA RAJANI: MODERN SUCCESS FROM AYURVEDA’S ANCIENT PRINCIPLES
We spoke to Trisha Rajani about her entrepreneurship journey building Dr.Vaidya’s, the largest Ayurveda DTC brand in India, and one of the country’s big success stories in the category. From 2016-21, Trisha and her cofounder (and husband) scaled the team from 66 to 140+, millions of customers and finally an acquisition by the RPSG group.
IN CONVERSATION WITH MONZO COO SUJATA BHATIA
Monzo COO Sujata Bhatia talks to us about staying nimble as a scale up and her journey from leading an incumbent, Amex, to one of the new power players in consumer finance. Covering off strategy, growth and global fintech markets, this one is for the fintech buffs!
HOW OUR ORIGIN STORIES INSPIRE US TO BREAK THE BIAS
The entrepreneurs we back often put their stories out there, going deep and exposing their vulnerability, so we thought it fair to do the same. This is why we care about breaking the bias and seeing women crush it in the world of high growth technology entrepreneurship.
DAME INGA BEALE ON 25 FEMALE FTSE 100 CEO’S BY 2025
We caught up with Dame Inga Beale, former CEO fo Lloyds of London, on her new initiative 25x25, which aims to get 25 Female CEOs on the FTSE 100 by 2025.
IN CONVERSATION WITH ELVIE FOUNDER TANIA BOLER
We talk to Tania Boler about her incredible trailblazing journey as the Founder and CEO of Elvie. Tania has raised the largest sum of capital for any femtech founder in the UK, placing her firmly at the helm of the fast growing sector.
COMMITTING TO A CO-FOUNDER
Samira Ann Qassim and Saloni Bhojwani are joining forces! We share the process we took to become co-founders in the hope that it is useful to the solo and searching entrepreneurs out there.