Elevating Women in Business: Jordan Dargue’s Venture Capital Journey

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week on The Exit: Jordan Dargue, investor and co-founder of Lifted Ventures, began her career in the construction industry before making her way to tech software. Throughout her experiences in various industries, a common theme she noticed was a disproportionately low number of female founders, particularly in venture-backed endeavors. With her company’s angel network and VC education, her mission has become to even the playing field by helping female founders raise the capital needed to scale early-stage startups. When deciding whether to fund businesses, she pays particular attention to the founder’s background and story, the team, the problem they are solving, and their understanding of the market. For female founders looking for investors, she recommends frequently attending events and speaking with investors early. For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit. Jordan Dargue, is a founder, senior executive, investor, NED and seasoned investment expert. Her boundless passion for innovation, coupled with a remarkable track record of achievements, positions her within the realms of growth and investment. Jordan is Co Founder of Lifted Ventures. Lifted exists to increase the flow of early stage capital to female founders and promote the significant business benefits of backing women. The Lifted Ventures flywheel has an angel network at its core, alongside education, community and consultancy. LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/jordan-dargue-59438433 Lifted Ventures Website - https://liftedventures.co.uk/ For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip Up the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses
0:05.9	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market
0:13.0	leading valuation tool, deal room, off market offering,
0:16.3	market insights, an AI-based deal by deal matching engine.
0:20.7	Now for the exit.
0:22.0	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:24.4	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:27.6	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
0:31.5	how they did it, why they did it and get
0:33.8	exposure to the world of exits it's a world occupied by a small few but
0:38.2	accessible to many on this episode of the exit I sit down with Jordan Daug
0:42.1	she is the co-founder of Lifted
0:43.6	Ventures and a fantastic woman in the space of Venture Capital. This is a really
0:50.0	deep interview about how despite all of the venture capital getting deployed
0:55.2	only a small percentage of that goes to women and for all the female
0:59.6	founders out there if you know a woman that is running an awesome startup definitely you're going to
1:04.6	want to send them to Lifted Ventures.
1:08.0	This is a great deep dive on some of the problems that women face when raising capital and actual solutions
1:17.0	as to what's going on on the ground floor getting more women on the investment side to help take meetings with female
1:25.4	entrepreneurs to even that playing field. So without further ado let's sit down
1:30.6	here on the exit and walk through actual tangible advice for female
1:36.1	entrepreneurs out there operating businesses thinking about raising
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