LSEG empowers female founders with Hatch’s KICKASS Series 4

The current women’s economic empowerment interventions around the world have proven that there are many obstacles faced by female entrepreneurs.

The emerging evidence from psychology and experimental economics on agency, mindset and leadership, show that for successful interventions to be transformative, they need to move beyond basic access to financial and human capital and also tackle central psychological, social and skill-constraints on women entrepreneurs.

Seeing this need, London Stock Exchange Group Sri Lanka (LSEG) chose to partner and drive Hatch’s KICKASS Series 4, which is geared towards empowering women entrepreneurs.

Having first started in March, Hatch, the hub for all things start-up, completed three cohorts of its programme tailored to nurturing female founders and is now ready to launch the fourth iteration of its incubation programme t o support and empower a whole new group of women in business, together with LSEG.

As a dedicated space for growth and collaboration with the goal of supporting innovators and entrepreneurs, Hatch and the Kickass Bootcamp series complements LSEG’S goal of championing gender equality and empowering entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.

The programme is specially designed for women and addresses gender-specific concerns faced by women in business while encouraging networking, knowledgesharing and mentorship from peers and industry experts.

LSEG SL Manager Diversity and Inclusion Bani Chandrasena said, “We believe that some of the main challenges female entrepreneurs face is the lack of access to funding channels and to the right know-how in order to grow their businesses. As such, LSEG finds it important to channel our efforts towards addressing these issues via targeted funding and programmes such as the Hatch Kickass Bootcamp, with the inclusion and support of other corporates.”