Bringing more ladies to VC investing and boardrooms with Karen Wendt & Carolina Newton from the Swiss FinTech Ladies

Voice of FinTech®

Founder of the Swiss FinTech Ladies (SFTL) association, Karen Wendt and board member Carolina Newton, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about how to bring ladies to invest more in FinTechs and be better represented in start-up boards. They also talked about many activities and initiatives of the SFTL to get there.

Here are the questions Karen and Caro answered:

• How did you get to do what you do today?
• What are the main issues on the FinTech scene in terms of diversity?
• What are the reasons behind diversity issues?
• What are potential ways to tackle them)?
• SFTL - what is it, and how does it work?
• What exciting events do you have in the pipeline for 2023?
• Who are your target members?
• Angel investing and women – tell us about your initiative.
• Getting start-up board experience – why should you do it and how? What are the pitfalls?
• What non-fiction book would you take with you on vacation? Capital in the Twenty-First Century and A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty, Lean In Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money by Kate Levinson and The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• What's the best way to reach out and learn more about SFTL? Swiss FinTech Ladies (SFTL) website and LinkedIn: Karen Wendt and Carolina Newton