Why We Need To Support Female-Owned Businesses With Sarah Dusek Of Enygma Ventures
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How are we to address the blatant inequality during our time? One of the things we can do is to support female-owned businesses. Corinna Bellizzi’s guest in this episode is Sarah Dusek, the founder of Enygma Ventures. Sarah laments that only 2% out of 100% of all the venture capital funding goes to women-led businesses in the US. As women, it’s our duty to champion one another. Do you want to know how you can help balance the scale? If you say “YES,” you’d love to tune in this episode. Enjoy!
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About Guest
Sarah Dusek is a venture capitalist and co-founder of Enygma Ventures, a venture capital fund. She invests in women-led businesses in Southern Africa, creates solutions to wealth disparity, and provides access to capital for women. In 2017, after successfully selling her company, Under Canvas, for more than $100 million, Sarah launched Enygma Ventures.
- Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-dusek-0b630ab/
- Guest Website: https://www.enygmaventures.com/
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Show Notes:
00:11:43: Traditional VCs vs. Enygma Ventures
00:16:53: Funding Statistics For Female-Led Business In The US
00:26:56: We Need Collaboration With All People
00:32:45: Connecting Different Companies
00:37:40: What Makes A Great Investor
00:46:23: Money Is A Byproduct Of Doing Something Great
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| 0:00.0 | where we put money, you know, where we determine where money is going to flow, is going to |
| 0:05.3 | determine the kind of world what we build. And at the moment, you know, and for many decades |
| 0:11.9 | prior to this moment, we've had a very unequal distribution of where funding flows, which means |
| 0:18.8 | we're only going to solve certain problems, we're only going to tackle certain challenges, we're only going to solve certain problems. |
| 0:22.7 | We're only going to tackle certain challenges. |
| 0:28.6 | We're only going to innovate in particular ways because of a particular demographic, |
| 0:32.3 | with a particular viewpoint, with a particular vision of all of our futures. And so for me, it's absolutely critical that we think about investing diversely and not just gender, but race and geography also, because people are going |
| 0:43.3 | from different places with different eyes, with different backgrounds, from different |
| 0:48.0 | races are going to solve different problems. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact |
| 0:57.6 | of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 1:00.9 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 1:06.1 | You'll learn how you can make a difference. |
| 1:08.1 | Vote with your dollars and get involved today. |
| 1:11.9 | Here's your host, |
| 1:21.8 | Karina Belizzi. Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause marketer who's passionate about social impact and sustainability. So passionate, in fact, |
| 1:27.0 | that I even created a five-step |
| 1:28.7 | guide to help you unleash your interactivist. If you're curious, all you have to do is join my |
| 1:34.2 | newsletter. Go to care more be better.com and click the button to join our newsletter. Again, that's |
| 1:40.9 | care more be better.com, where you can always just send me a DM on social platforms and I'll send it right over to you. Now, that's care more, be better.com, where you can always just send me a DM on social platforms, |
| 1:45.9 | and I'll send it right over to you. Now, today we're going to talk about something near and dear to |
| 1:50.9 | my heart, and that is really the need to have great funding for ventures that are female-led |
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