Future Females

Lauren co-founded Future Females in 2017 to create a movement and community that supports female entrepreneurs in 57 cities with access to best practice training and entrepreneurship programmes. The movement has trained 160 ambassadors to run events and deliver its programmes in their respective local communities. Its programmes focus on business development, access to market, and access to funding. Future Females also provides coaching and mentoring, in small group settings or one-on-one, and helps female entrepreneurs access funding opportunities to bridge the capital investment gender gap.

Lauren attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022, virtually. Her exposure to other leaders and entrepreneurs there inspired her to think bigger about what is possible in her space and drive forward her work with Future Females.

The Future Females community consists of 160,000 female entrepreneurs, who have joined by participating in online events, chapter events, or programmes. The movement’s Business School is a three month-long accelerator programme that has supported 3,086 entrepreneurs in total. The accelerator has also developed into sector-specific editions, focusing on industries lacking a strong female presence. Future Females’ Access to Funding programme provides entrepreneurs with financial literacy, financial readiness training, and a funding matchmaker. It connected 100 entrepreneurs with 15 founders during the last round of the programme, establishing partnerships based on project development stages and securing $335,000 in funding. Additionally, the movement has developed Pave, a tech platform for women to access Future Females’ roadmap methodology for growing a digital business, with a business capability assessment and a personalised content journey.

“Attending a Summit like One Young World that brings together people from markets that are world-leading showed me what's possible. So I think the main thing that I got out of it was the exposure to people thinking bigger.”