A Summit of leaders, including female internet heroes Esther Dyson and Caterina Fake, and supportes of them, such as Vivek Wadha, to explore women’s participation in high growth businesses and identify solutions to move us forward is held today at New York, and The NextWomen is present to report on it and to facilitate a discussion on women as investors.

The Summit’s agenda is designed to create a common understanding and drive towards actionable goals. Topics are for example:

• Examining individual paths and shared routes to venture funding taken by women founders of high-growth companies.
• Men and women build and use their networks differently. What are the reasons and outcomes.
• What routes can / have women take(n) to become angels and venture firm partners who make early stage investments in high-growth companies.
• The New Power Girls and How They’re Changing The Way All Women Network.
• Solutions to increase women’s participation in early stage investment and solutions that allow them to invest in women.

Attendees include entrepreneurs, investors and leaders of organizations and institutions advocating, promoting, accelerating and researching women’s participation in high-growth entrepreneurship.

If you want to know more, please see the WeOwnit Summit