ACCESS2FUNDING: INVESTING IN DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS
The Disability Policy Centre is proud to be the research partner for the creation of a global network, where investors and disabled entrepreneurs can connect, capturing data, creating visibility and opportunity for disabled founders.
We are delighted to introduce #ACCESS2FUNDING - Investing in Disabled Entrepreneurs alongside, Clu, The Valuable 500, Meaningful Business, Disability Rights UK, 2Gether International and other disabled entrepreneurs, as we capture vital data to improve investment opportunities for disabled founders and entrepreneurs.
The global lack of verified and actionable data has a significant role to play in why disabled entrepreneurs are missing out on investment. To date, we have found no captured data on how many disabled entrepreneurs are being invited to pitch, and how much funding is invested in disabled entrepreneurs and their businesses. We are engaging the global Investment community in offering greater and more equitable support to disabled founders and their companies, collecting data on the current barriers disabled founders face to growing their businesses.
The lack of opportunity for disabled entrepreneurs and founders has gone unchallenged for too long.
This is the starting point.
Image Alt-Text: Image shows a light bright purple background, on the left hand side at the bottom in white writing it reads ‘Investing in Disabled Entrepreneurs, above it is the logo for the campaign which is three rectangles stacked on top of one another, pink, white and dark purple with the words ‘Access 2 Funding’ written defending, there is a pink vertical rectangle next to that with a large ‘!’. On the right hand side of the image there is a young girl sitting on a bench smiling, she is wearing a metallic purple jacket, she has long brown hair and freckles.
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ADACON 2022
On the 4th October 2022, Access2Funding founders The Disability Policy Centre and Clu delivered an exclusive release of data and presentation from the #Access2Funding campaign which aims to improve opportunities and accessibility for disabled founders and entrepreneurs.