Female Founders Rise
I founded FFR to build the support system I wish I'd had - a community of 11,000+ women building businesses, making connections, and helping each other to succeed in entrepreneurship.
Join the community →Entrepreneur.
Angel Investor.
Community Leader.
20+ years, 11 businesses, and a community of 11,000+ women.
ABOUT
Emmie Faust is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 20 years of experience building, scaling, and exiting businesses. She's started 11 companies, secured £200k on Dragons' Den, and had her share of failures and successful exits along the way.
In 2022, she founded Female Founders Rise, a certified B Corp and community of over 11,000 women entrepreneurs across the UK. Through accelerators, masterclasses, events, and research including The Rise Report, one of the largest grassroots studies of female founders in the UK, she's working to close the gender funding gap and help more women build profitable, long-term businesses.
Emmie is an angel investor in a range of startups. She speaks and hosts panels on fundraising and entrepreneurship, and co-hosts the Female Founders Rise Show, sitting down with founders and investors to hear stories from women who have built incredible businesses.
- 11,000+ FFR members
- ·£200k record Dragons' Den investment
- ·40+ startups backed
- ·20+ years, 11 businesses
WHAT I DO
Angel Investing & Advisory
I've backed 40+ early-stage startups (nearly all founded by women) and have advised founders on growth and scaling (but too busy doing other things right now!) I'm also a micro LP in a few female-led funds.
I'm currently paused on angel investing
Speaking & Press
I love being on panels (+ hosting them) and doing fireside chats. I also host The Female Founders Rise Show with my friend Mae Yip, which is a podcast and in-person show.
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In the press.
The TimesForbesSiftedLondon Live TVDragons' DenLinkedIn News
SPEAKING
On stage.
- Female Founders Raise at Google2024–2026
- Slush'd Cornwall
- Warwick Business School
- Baltic Ventures Launch
- SXSW London2026
- London Tech Week2026
Find your people.
Female Founders Rise is 11,000+ women building businesses together. We host events, masterclasses, share resources, run accelerators that help women get funded and more.