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 Builder.
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 supporting over 11,000 women entrepreneurs across the UK. Through accelerators, masterclasses, events, and research including The Rise Report - one of the UK's largest grassroots studies of female founders - she's working to make entrepreneurship more equitable.
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.
Enquire about speaking →PRESS
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
It's all about people.
Female Founders Rise is 11,000+ women building businesses together. We host events, masterclasses, share resources, and run accelerators on fundraising, growth and personal branding.