Green Bean Studios Female Tech Founder In The North Anita Frost

Catch up on the GRAFT🥊series! Many know our unconventional route to raising investment and the bumps in the road at Green Bean Studios 🌳.... When the landscape “hasn’t moved” in two years 🙃, what do female founders do? Well, it's been a swimming season for Green Bean & Friends 🥽.

The landscape for Northern female entrepreneurs looking to raise investment “hasn’t moved”, warns the frustrated founder behind Manchester-based children’s entertainment platform Green Bean Studios.

Two years ago, Anita Frost called it a “mess”. And she still holds that view today. 
“Being a black female founder, I may seem more unfamiliar. ​

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Although she’s now able to pitch in more rooms, “the right investors aren’t in those spaces, so it’s a waste of time.”
So as part of Prolific North’s GRAFT series looking into the future of Northern tech,
​we’ve taken a closer look at how – or if – the landscape has changed.

In most cities outside of London, less than 1% of investment capital goes to female-led businesses according to new data from The Lifted Project. And according to UKBAA, the UK Business Angels Association, 85% of funding rounds with at least one female founder fail to close​.

“The stats haven’t moved the needle in any way despite everyone talking about it. We’re not deploying that investment – and that’s the bit we need to see.”
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Green Bean Studios recently won the KPMG Black Entrepreneurs Award, which celebrates Black heritage entrepreneurs in the UK and provides a platform to market their businesses. 

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