Super Pitch & Mercia host an IWD 2022 Pitching Breakfast

Super Pitch and Mercia Asset Management, in association with Diversity X, hosted an International Women’s Day Breakfast in London on Monday 7th March 2022, offering 10 female founders to pitch their business ideas. The IWD 2022 breakfast was provided by Noshy Circle founded by Subha Ganesh and vegan ice cream and affogato was provided by Mama Dolce, founded by Jane Visram.

“Super Pitch is a unique platform aimed at diverse founders. We remove pitching biases up to an extent via our online video pitching platform and allows founders to pitch directly to a pool of global investors who are on our online platform looking to fund business ideas,” said Joyeeta Das, CEO & Co-Founder of Super Pitch, “it’s also a platform that allows startup coaches, freelance CFOs, accountants, trainees to offer their services online to these startups and the Super Pitch network gives you access to unique benefits – childcare vouchers, caregiver vouchers, confidence boosting training and much more.”

Since being founded in 2020, Super Pitch has closed 4 deals, formed 18 new partnerships, heard 60 pitches and attracted 40+ investors to the platform.

At the IWD 2022 breakfast, guests heard from:

SUPERPITCH

Suma Bhattacharya (1Child)
An app looking to lift children out of poverty by allowing donors to sponsor children via financial services provided on a blockchain platform. https://1child.co.uk/

Sara Roberts (Healthy Nibbles)
Healthy Nibbles is the UK’s award-winning answer to healthy snacking, with snack boxes, vending machines, and curated services. https://www.healthynibbles.co.uk/

Ariadna Maso (Sanno)
Sanno is an app that analyses the symptoms you experience together with your food intake, stress and other variables. https://sanno.health/

Tracey Carr (Ecoshaper)
Eco-Shaper revolutionises sustainability reporting and compliance, drives action on climate change and streamlines carbon footprinting. https://eco-shaper.com/

Veronique Trang (StorySkimo )
Storyskimo is the podcasting platform for budding podcasters aged 5-12. It is on a mission to let children expand their imagination, find their voices and become confident communicators through the power of audio. https://www.storyskimo.com/

Sophia Parvizi-Wayne (KanjoHealth)
Kanjo is the first children’s platform to make social, cognitive and emotional skills fun and engaging to learn, using the nascent study of digital biomarkers as a way to provide personalised insight and advice whenever the child interacts with the platform. https://www.mykanjo.com/

DIVERSITY X

Jade Bates (AirSlip)
Airslip is building big tech for SMEs to support financing, innovation & expansion through real-time financial data connectivity to financial services. It enables financial institutions to access real-time financial and sales insights on their business customers. https://www.airslip.com/

Xann Schwinn (Choral Hub)
The Choral Hub is a UK-based music edtech startup that is building an app that teaches people how to sing. https://thechoralhub.com/

Karishma Gupta (Satatland Circular Fashion)
Satatland Circular Fashion is a new circular way to shop British designer clothing that is sourced sustainably and crafted ethically. https://www.satatland.com/

Martina Ceccarelli (Comma Periods)
Comma periods is a subscription box that provides essential and non-essential items for period relief. Its aim is to help women take care of themselves during their period by alleviating their symptoms and relieving their cravings. https://commaperiods.com/

Jade Beard (YMU group)
YMU is a global talent management company for elite clients in sport, music, drama, comedy and entertainment. https://www.ymugroup.com/

About Super Pitch

SuperPitch is an online ecosystem connecting globally-minded investors with talented, diverse founders, particularly women, to raise funding and build successful businesses. Co-Founded by Joyeeta Das (CEO) and Deepak Shakya (CIO) and Fellows, the founding team have collectively delivered impact to more than 3.25 million women across 86 countries, deploying $10.6 billion in capital into thousands of women-owned businesses in partnership with banks, corporate, start-ups, impact funds, and charities over the past decade. Setting out on their own in a new venture, they commit to driving investment of $5 billion in underrepresented founders by 2026, impacting up to 50,000 businesses.

For further information visit: https://superpitch.co.uk/

About Mercia Asset Management

Founded in 2010, Mercia Asset Management is a venture capital firm based in Henley In Arden, United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare, information technology, communication and networking, manufacturing, and life sciences sectors.

For further information visit https://www.mercia.co.uk/

About Diversity X

Diversity X is launching a pre-seed to seed stage venture fund to support underestimated founders of purpose-led startups seeking to make the world a better place and tech startups seeking to address issues that hinder diversity, equity, and inclusion.