07-16-2020, 09:52 AM
Female Founders Competition winners announced
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<p id="af98" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">Deeptech — Global Winners : </strong><a href="https://ilof.tech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer"><strong class="hb hw">iLoF</strong></a><strong class="hb hw"> — Oxford, UK</strong></p>
<p id="b03a" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">iLoF uses AI and photonics to build a cloud-based library of disease biomarkers, initially focusing on the biggest epidemic of our time: Alzheimer’s disease.</p>
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<p id="c35a" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How does it feel to be a winner of the Female Founders Competition?</strong><br />It’s an honor to be selected as a winner from such an inspiring and trail-blazing group of women-led deeptech companies from all over the globe. We are immensely excited to be able to join M12, Mayfield and Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures in the fight for increased diversity, and to be able to do our small part in supporting an environment of inclusion, openness and acceptance. As we begin this next phase in our journey with the backing and support of world-renowned investors, we believe we will be able to fast-track the development and deployment of our platform and our vision.</p>
<figure class="ii ij ik il im dj cp cq paragraph-image"><figcaption class="ip ic cr cp cq iq ir ay fg fh ba bd"><em class="is">Clockwise from the top left: Mehak Mumtaz, Joana Paiva, and Paula Sampaio pitch iLoF remotely to Tamara Steffens from M12 at the Female Founders Competition Finals Event</em></figcaption></figure>
<p id="0fba" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How has your offering impacted customers to date?</strong><br />Using our non-invasive, low-cost and agnostic platform, we are transforming the drug discovery and development process, creating value for customers in a wide range of applications. <br />In our main focus area, Alzheimer’s disease, we have enabled a promising biotech to validate a new nano-sized therapeutic biomarker. At the same time, we are providing a public hospital with a tool to screen thousands of patients for a clinical trial in a non-invasive and patient-centric way.</p>
<p id="a440" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How do you plan to use the funding from the Female Founders Competition?</strong><br />We at iLoF are on a mission to enable a new era of personalized medicine, by helping the industry develop precise and personalized treatments for patients. This investment will be used to fast track our collaboration with one of our industry partners for development of a treatment for Alzheimer’s, while also accelerating our work in two additional verticals: oncology and cardiovascular disease.</p>
<p><strong class="hb hw">What advice do you have for other female founders who are fundraising right now?</strong></p>
<p id="413b" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">1. Find other female founders to share and learn from each other, leverage communities or build your own.</p>
<p id="bdcb" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">2. Identify female-led startup role models, reach out to them and get them to show you the ropes.</p>
<p id="18ff" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">3. Be prepared, understand the process, know your numbers and practice, practice, practice.</p>
<p id="b50d" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">4. Brace yourself for rejections and learn to reframe them into learning opportunities.</p>
<p id="0623" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">Follow iLoF on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/iloftech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/iLoF_tech" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iloftech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">Facebook</a>.</p>
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<p id="af98" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">Deeptech — Global Winners : </strong><a href="https://ilof.tech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer"><strong class="hb hw">iLoF</strong></a><strong class="hb hw"> — Oxford, UK</strong></p>
<p id="b03a" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">iLoF uses AI and photonics to build a cloud-based library of disease biomarkers, initially focusing on the biggest epidemic of our time: Alzheimer’s disease.</p>
<figure class="ii ij ik il im dj cp cq paragraph-image"></figure>
<p id="c35a" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How does it feel to be a winner of the Female Founders Competition?</strong><br />It’s an honor to be selected as a winner from such an inspiring and trail-blazing group of women-led deeptech companies from all over the globe. We are immensely excited to be able to join M12, Mayfield and Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures in the fight for increased diversity, and to be able to do our small part in supporting an environment of inclusion, openness and acceptance. As we begin this next phase in our journey with the backing and support of world-renowned investors, we believe we will be able to fast-track the development and deployment of our platform and our vision.</p>
<figure class="ii ij ik il im dj cp cq paragraph-image"><figcaption class="ip ic cr cp cq iq ir ay fg fh ba bd"><em class="is">Clockwise from the top left: Mehak Mumtaz, Joana Paiva, and Paula Sampaio pitch iLoF remotely to Tamara Steffens from M12 at the Female Founders Competition Finals Event</em></figcaption></figure>
<p id="0fba" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How has your offering impacted customers to date?</strong><br />Using our non-invasive, low-cost and agnostic platform, we are transforming the drug discovery and development process, creating value for customers in a wide range of applications. <br />In our main focus area, Alzheimer’s disease, we have enabled a promising biotech to validate a new nano-sized therapeutic biomarker. At the same time, we are providing a public hospital with a tool to screen thousands of patients for a clinical trial in a non-invasive and patient-centric way.</p>
<p id="a440" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu"><strong class="hb hw">How do you plan to use the funding from the Female Founders Competition?</strong><br />We at iLoF are on a mission to enable a new era of personalized medicine, by helping the industry develop precise and personalized treatments for patients. This investment will be used to fast track our collaboration with one of our industry partners for development of a treatment for Alzheimer’s, while also accelerating our work in two additional verticals: oncology and cardiovascular disease.</p>
<p><strong class="hb hw">What advice do you have for other female founders who are fundraising right now?</strong></p>
<p id="413b" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">1. Find other female founders to share and learn from each other, leverage communities or build your own.</p>
<p id="bdcb" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">2. Identify female-led startup role models, reach out to them and get them to show you the ropes.</p>
<p id="18ff" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">3. Be prepared, understand the process, know your numbers and practice, practice, practice.</p>
<p id="b50d" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">4. Brace yourself for rejections and learn to reframe them into learning opportunities.</p>
<p id="0623" class="gz ha az hb b hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr cx eu">Follow iLoF on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/iloftech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/iLoF_tech" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iloftech/" class="fn gl hs ht hu hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">Facebook</a>.</p>
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