Emmie Faust

Founder

London, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of a community for 10K female founders.
  • Micro-investor in 30 women-led businesses.
  • Co-host of a podcast on fundraising strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a community-driven entrepreneur focused on empowering female founders through strategic initiatives and investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyCommunity BuildingFundraisingMarketingMarketing StrategyAngel Investing

Other Skills

NetworkingBusiness Growth StrategiesStart-up VenturesBusiness DevelopmentB2B MarketingDigital MarketingBusiness GrowthStart-upsCustomer AcquisitionDigital MediaSocial Media MarketingPPCOnline AdvertisingMedia PlanningMobile Marketing

About

I'm on a mission to make entrepreneurship more accessible. I set up my first business at 25, and since then, I have successfully set up, grown and sold multiple companies (and had a few failures on the journey too!) Entrepreneurship is what I love. Most recently, I’ve been focused on Female Founders Rise [FFR] - a community of 10K female and non-binary founders >> https://femalefoundersrise.com/ I’m also a micro-investor in 30 women-led businesses, a speaker, and co-host of The Fundraising Grind (a podcast about helping you get your business funded with my friend Mae Yip) At FFR, our mission is to empower women to achieve financial freedom through entrepreneurship. We do that through 4 pillars: ➕ Community - we come together for connection, collaboration, and support. Being a founder can be a lonely journey, and we want to be there for each other ➕ Funding - we've launched Cohort 4 of our fundraising accelerator - a free 8-week program to help 60+ female founders at a time on their fundraising journey ➕ Business Fundamentals - we run regular sessions and masterclasses on all things fundamental to growing a successful, sustainable business ➕ Awareness - we celebrate female founders and help them share their voices. So far 700+ women have taken part in our personal branding challenge We have partnered with brands like London Business School, Lloyds Bank, and Google, and hosted events for 100's of women all over the UK. We have been featured in The Times, Sifted, and Forbes. Come and join us on our mission 👉 femalefoundersrise.com Why do I care? I want the same opportunities for women entrepreneurs as their male counterparts. When I heard about the funding gap, I was shocked and decided I'd try and do something about it. In the last few years, I have found my "Why" and a great deal of joy from being around so many incredible women doing amazing things. ------- 👋 Follow me for daily posts on entrepreneurship, female founders, and my journey investing in women-led businesses. 👉 Join Female Founders Rise free and connect with 10k female founders >>femalefoundersrise.com Curated resources, fundraising support, business fundamentals + connection 👉 Find Female Founders Rise on LinkedIn >> https://www.linkedin.com/company/female-founders-rise/ ------- For paid consultancy/speaking engagements, please enquire at hello@femalefoundersrise.com

Experience

The rise report of female entrepreneurship

Founder

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos · Remote

  • We're reporting on insights and data from female founders in the UK, featuring the most recent data, powerful stories, and a benchmark to track annual progress.
  • The Rise Report is a national initiative led by Female Founders Rise, with research led by Nottingham Business School and supported by Barclays.
  • Tech partner > WholeSum Tech
  • Creative partner > YeahNice

Runyourself

Angel Investor

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Mamma wellbeing

Advisor and Angel Investor

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Global · Remote

Zinc

Visiting Fellow

Mar 2023Dec 2023 · 9 mos · London · Remote

  • Zinc backs exceptional talent to build new commercial solutions that solve the most pressing societal issues. As a Zinc Visiting Fellow, I support the cohort of 70 talented Founders to build commercial, scalable businesses that tackle one of the toughest problems society faces today - Financial Resilience.
Angel Investing

Female founders rise

Founder + CEO

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Female Founders Rise is a community of 11k female and non-binary founders.
  • Join here > https://swf5gwq3cbv.typeform.com/Join-FFR
  • Our purpose is financial freedom for women through entrepreneurship and we work across 4 pillars
  • 1) Community
  • 2) Business Fundamentals
  • 3) Getting More Women Funded
  • 4) Awareness of Female Entrepreneurship
  • Our mission is to provide advice, connection, networking, and support to help female founders succeed.
  • We have partnered with London Business School, Google, HSBC, Barclays, British Business Bank and many other great communities and organisations supporting founders.
  • We'd love to have you join us - click on the link below or in my bio.
EntrepreneurshipMarketingMarketing StrategyBusiness StrategyNetworkingBusiness Growth Strategies+1

Ventures together

Angel Investor

Sep 2022Sep 2024 · 2 yrs · London

  • Ventures Together is a curated community of 130+ of Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and operators who angel invest and help companies together. We’re responsible for building some of the biggest startups like Wise, Klarna, Beamery, Onfido, Citymapper, Huma, Monzo and Deliveroo.
  • “VT has provided us with unique access to influential and strategic business operators. I am amazed at the pace, efficiency and feedback provided to us by the VT community” - Anna Brailsford, founder and CEO of Code First Girls.
Angel Investing

Freelance marketing club

Co-Founder

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Global · Remote

  • Bringing together marketing freelancers for networking, collaboration + fun
  • We handed this networking group on to a new leader because I need to focus my time and energy on Female Founders Rise full time.
  • Free networking + masterclasses for marketing freelancers.

Faust house

Founder + Advisor

Jan 2015Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • An experienced exited entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den winner with over 20 years in digital marketing, I’ve personally scaled and sold three businesses (and had quite a few others that didn’t go to plan)
  • I work with scaling service-based and tech businesses to help them get the most out of their marketing spend to enable growth, funding and successful exit.
  • Typical ROI x 10
MarketingEntrepreneurshipB2B MarketingMarketing StrategyDigital Marketing

The kite factory

Board Director

Apr 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · London

  • In April 2013, The Kite Factory (formerly MC&C) acquired our agency Jack Media London. After the acquisition I stayed on as a Business Director.
  • My role involved new business, key client relationship management, broad business strategy and future vision. I sat on the board of directors.

Gdm digital

Co-Founder

May 2009Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · London

  • I was one of the co-founders of GDM Digital which was a programmatic advertising agency that was sold in November 2014 to a large media network. At the time of sale, we had offices in London and Germany and a headcount of over 40.

Jack media london (now kite factory)

Co-Founder/MD

Dec 2005Apr 2013 · 7 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • In April 2013 Jack Media London, one of the businesses that I co-founded with Ed Stevens was acquired by leading independent media agency, MC&C (since rebranded to the Kite Factory)
  • I was one a co-founder of Jack Media which was predominantly a digital DR agency - helping clients to grow their business through new customer acquisition campaigns.
  • In 2009 we were awarded a Media Momentum Award for being one of the most promising and fastest-growing companies in the digital arena.

Education

University of Bristol

BSc — Economics with Accounting and Law

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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