Female Founders Growth Summit 2025
The Female Founders Growth Summit is now SOLD OUT! You can join the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/NwAuBrr36bomDgYn9.
Following the overwhelming success of the 2024 Female Founders Growth Summit, Pathways Forward is delighted to be partnering and collaborating with Female Founders Rise, The ScaleUp Institute, Buy Women Built, and SuperScalers for 2025, bringing together the UK's brightest scale-up female founders to help them accelerate the growth of their businesses.
The Summit will deliver a unique combination of inspiring keynotes, dedicated workshops, impact networking with peers and curated connections with investors. The event will focus on scaling strategies and utilising AI for productivity & growth, leadership development and investor connections. Whether bootstrapping or seeking investment, attendees will leave motivated and armed with practical, actionable takeaways to enable accelerated business growth.
The Summit is geared towards founders already generating revenues who have ambitions to scale their business further. If you are an entrepreneur who is already on the scaleup journey and is looking to further fuel the growth of your business this Summit is for you.
We have an amazing line up of speakers and keynotes and we'll be releasing more info on this over the coming weeks. Keep your eyes peeled and watch our LinkedIn for updates: Pathways Forward LinkedIn and Female Founders Growth Summit LinkedIn.
The agenda also includes dedicated time for connecting with your peers, bookable office hour slots to connect with investors, and highly targeted action labs and workshops. We will provide sign-up information for these in due course.
We'd like to thank our headline sponsors: Royal Bank of Scotland, ScaleUp Scotland powered by the Hunter Foundation, Scottish National Investment Bank and sponsors: British Business Bank, EY, and Burness Paull.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Pitching: Please note this is not a pitching event or an event to be connected with investors to get investment for your business. This is an event dedicated to supporting founders understand the different options available to accelerate their business growth.
Livestream: A livestream will be available for some of the sessions, for those who can't make it in person. Please register on our waitling list to receive information about this: https://forms.gle/NwAuBrr36bomDgYn9.
Hotels: We do not have a hotel block for this event. We have suggested four hotels below at varying price points as a starting list for your convenience.
Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket - Close to city centre, Haymarket station, and tram/bus stops.
Hampton by Hilton Edinburgh Airport - Close to airport and venue and tram/bus stops.
Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel - City centre location, close to bus/tram stops.
The Hoxton - City centre location, close to Haymarket train station
Catering: Food and drinks will be provided throughout the day. If you have any specific dietary requirements, please note these when registering.
Refunds: Refunds are available up to 7 days prior to the event.
Directions to venue: Directions to the conference centre can be found here. There is extremely limited parking on-site, so please try to take public transport and/or taxis to and from the venue. Taxi numbers can be found in the doc linked above.
Photography: Please note that photos and videos will be taken at this event. By attending, you give your consent for your image to be used for promotional purposes by Pathways Forward. If you do not wish to be recorded, please speak to a member of staff.