Support the Alma Community

Champion our vision of a world of equal opportunities where innovation reflects the richness of human experience, in service to all of humanity

Alma is a non-profit organisation and we look for partners who believe in the mission: at its core, Alma exists to reshape who builds, who funds, and who benefits from innovation. Scale your impact and make a systemic change in the world.

Join our board of patrons, sponsor an event, give your employees access to angel training, volunteer... there are many ways to stand with us in building a more inclusive ecosystem.

Meet our Founding Patrons

Our Board of Patrons shape the future of this life changing organisation. This is the exclusive opportunity for you to support the Alma Mission.

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Andrea Sinclair

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Lauren Clark Miles

Scott Mackin

And the Founding Almas

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A collage of ten women from various countries, each with a flag representing their nationality, arranged in two rows with five women in each row, all smiling and dressed professionally.
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Our Corporate Sponsors walk the talk

These organisations support us with sponsoring events, venues, connections and more.

Event and Training Sponsors
Annual Sponsors

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Logo for Bootstraps 4, a female-focused fund of funds.
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Ecosystem Partners
Pro Bono Partners

And our Ecosystem Partners too

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Ecosystem Partners
Pro Bono Partners

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Collaborate with Alma

Alma thrives because of the generosity, expertise, and energy of our supporters, partners, and alumni. Amplify our mission to empower diverse founders, strengthen the innovation ecosystem, and drive meaningful impact. Every contribution helps shape a fairer, more inclusive future for women-led innovation.

  • Philanthropy is the most daring form of capital to unlock sustainable progress, where traditional markets are yet to catch up. It underwrites experimentation and the patience to build capacity. Join our mission to lead systemic change in the way innovation is built and backed.

  • Every year we run tens of gatherings to bring the brightest minds together, to engineer serendipity and explore opportunities. Our events and trainings are all carefully curated and designed to foster collaboration and meaningful conversations between founders, funders and partners. Both online and IRL, we equip changemakers with the skills to navigate entrepreneurship and build innovations that serve the whole of society.

  • Do you run a non-profit organisation or community? Work with Alma to co-create initiatives that empower women entrepreneurs, strengthen and drive impact across the ecosystem. Together, let's tackle challenges and unlock new opportunities for founders, funders and partners.

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Alma operates with the support of our volunteers 💙

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    Amira Chanana

    ALMA BREAKFAST LONDON

    Amira is an operator turned angel, building a portfolio of female-founded companies. She has spent her career in GTM roles at early-stage startups as well as established companies like Uber Eats in the UK, and brings that lens to the founders she backs. She is a Founding Alma and leads the monthly Alma Breakfast series.

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    Chloe Hall

    TECH

    I’m passionate about driving innovation and advances through science and technology.

    🔬Curious about purpose-led research, and how we can use science to change the world. Always aiming for positive impact.

    👩‍💻Always learning- automating boring repetitive tasks and freeing up time for deep-work is the goal. I gravitate towards operational roles, where I get to wear a lot of different hats, problem-solve, and get stuff done. Tech stack: LLMs, Claude Code, Cursor, napkin.ai, Zapier, APIs, Adalo, Vercel

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    Gila Norich

    IMPACT

    Gila Norich is an impact investing professional with experience across advisory, product design, learning and knowledge development, and ecosystem building. She has worked extensively on partnerships and fundraising initiatives focused on expanding capital access for small and growing businesses. Gila currently works at the Collaborative for Frontier Finance, supporting a peer network of early-stage African fund managers and helping design and capitalise fund-of-funds and platform-level solutions. Her work with women-founded businesses comes from seeing exceptional, well-run companies led by women that are ready to scale and expand, but are too often overlooked by traditional investors.

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    Julia Rasch

    DEALFLOW

    Dear Alma Angels community, my passion for early-stage and technology-driven startups and the earliest stages of investing started when working on a clean-tech project back during university. During my scale-up-to-IPO journey and my more recent venture capital experience, I have noticed the need for supporting the visibility of and capital allocation to diverse founding teams especially in very tech-driven sectors. I am looking forward to supporting this critical mission within the community!

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    Marijke Brenninkmeijer

    I am a Dutch, British, Canadian business leader with over 10 years’ experience in the retail industry, with expertise in Leadership, Management, Strategy, and Business Transformations and Optimisation.

    I thrive on simplifying the complex, and generating added value through addressing strategy, processes and operations, as well as people and culture.

    I am passionate about supporting female entrepreneurs on their journeys to build the businesses of the future. Someone recently said to me: “If not you, who? If not now, when?” So, I have decided there’s no time like the present to start investing personally in businesses and specifically women.

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    Rohini Sankati

    TECH

    I invest in ideas that combine purpose with profit, and I’m all about helping visionary founders scale their impact while making a difference along the way. When I’m not leading teams or mentoring entrepreneurs, I’m thinking about how we can build a more inclusive and sustainable future.

  • Yasmina Banine

    NEWSLETTER

    Entrepreneur turned operator with experience across finance and venture capital. Joining the GTM team at DeepL. Tech optimist, passionate about AI and deeptech as forces for human progress. Excited to support startups and help women in the ecosystem access capital and talent.

“Alma exists to reshape who builds, who funds, and who benefits from innovation. Because when women build companies, they deliver: stronger businesses, more resilient communities, and better outcomes for all of society.”

— Roxane, Founding Partner of Alma

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