Founder-led · Non-profit

Helping women founders
stay in power.

A curated, super-connector community helping women founders build, scale, and stay in power. Run by founders, for women in the ecosystem.

📍 London · Cambridge · Dubai
⚡ Super-connector network — warm intros, co-working, curated events
✦ Always free — non-profit, no membership fee, ever
🌍 Open to investors & supporters who champion women founders
🔬 Research-driven — we publish studies to change the system
Join the
Founders Room.
✦
Application received.

We review every application personally
and will be in touch within 2–4 weeks.

She Leads community
The community
Founders who show up
for each other
She Leads events
In-person events
Curated. Intimate.
Real conversations.
Our Mission

We're making it
equal at the top.

Women disproportionately face barriers to capital, networks and power — not because of capability, but because of a system that wasn't built with them in mind. She Leads exists to change that from the inside: building the connections, research and community that help women founders succeed, scale, and stay in power.

2%
of all UK VC goes to all-female founding teams
British Business Bank, 2023
1 in 3
women in mixed-gender teams report being sidelined or losing decision-making power as investor pressure grows
Founders Forum / Rose Review, 2023
£250B
added to the UK economy if women started businesses at the same rate as men
Alison Rose Review
Women who co-found with men are more likely to be pushed into operational rather than strategic roles — and less likely to hold the CEO title at exit.
First Round Capital, State of Startups
Female founders receive lower valuations for identical pitches, are asked different questions, and held to a higher standard than male peers.
Journal of Business Venturing
What we do

Research. Advocacy.
Community.

She Leads Founders Room is a registered non-profit. Beyond community, we conduct research that gives investors, ecosystem leaders and government the evidence they need to change the system — not just the narrative.

⚬ Registered Non-Profit

⚡ Super-Connector Network

Warm intros across investors, co-founders, talent and partners. Members open doors for each other.

🏙 Curated In-Person Events

Intimate dinners, roundtables and co-working days in London, Cambridge and Dubai. No pitch-fests.

✦ Exited Founder Advisers

Female founders who've exited, matched to you by sector and stage. Real advice from people who've done it.

🔬 Research & Advocacy

We publish studies and brief policymakers to shift structural barriers for women founders at every level.

Where we meet

In-person in three cities.

🇬🇧
London
Most active
🎓
Cambridge
Growing chapter
🇦🇪
Dubai
International chapter