San Diego, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/03/2015 -- Patricia Arquette lit the match at her 2015 Academy Awards acceptance speech. Her timely words speaking out against the severely underserved market of females in business lit a fire around the movement of diminishing the funding disparity that gender diverse companies face.
FundAthena , the world's first SEC Reg A+ marketplace for main street investors to invest growth funds in businesses run by gender diverse companies, is launching the "Declaration of Independence for Funding Women Campaign" to gather thousands of supporters for an outreach to educate and urge Fortune 500 company CEOs, financial service firms, and government leaders to end the disparity in female funding. Additionally, the Declaration will support businesses that are committed to, and practicing, gender diversity in management.
Lead by FundAthena co-founders Rod Turner, previously of Symantec, Ashton Tate and Peter Norton, and serial entrepreneur Kim Folsom, along with organizations as Hera Labs , and the USD College of Business Entrepreneur Program.
"Hera Labs is excited to partner with FundAthena in their 'Declaration of Independence for Funding Women' as it is fully in line with our mission to help women entrepreneurs launch, propel, and grow their businesses," said Silvia Mah, CEO of Hera Labs, a business accelerator for aspiring entrepreneurial women. "We support the Declaration as we see it's potential to strengthen the entrepreneurial community across the country and look forward to transforming public policy and influencing opinion makers through this partnership."
The campaign will run from July 4th through August 31st. The Declaration will be signed on September 8th, the day after Labor Day and the signed Declaration will be on September 30th.
Supporters will pledge their support by signing and having their name listed on the Declaration. Larger supporters names will be handwritten and in long hand ($1000 to $50). Smaller supporters will have their name shown in typeface ($25 to $10)
At the end of the campaign a hard copy and an electronic copy of the Declaration will be sent to Fortune 500 CEOs and Board members and FundAthena will present to the top 10 corporations, VCs and members of congress; the Top 100 VC firms to Members of Congress and the President of the United States.
FundAthena utilize an eight point metric to evaluate and rate a company's gender diversity performance. These metrics measure a given company's commitment to diversity as it relates to women ownership in the company, leadership, advancement and compensation parity. FundAthena's efforts in the market have been covered in Forbes , TechCrunch, Huffington Post and Bankless Times.
For more information about this campaign visit www.fundathena.com
About FundAthena
FundAthena is the first SEC Regulation A+ marketplace. Its focus is for Main Street investors to invest growth funds in businesses run by gender diverse management teams. FundAthena provides funded businesses with access to investor management and advisory boards for business strategy support. We address the problem of access to capital in the underserved market of excellent, gender diverse management teams and women-led businesses. Founders of FundAthena prior business successes include: Symantec. For more information, visit FundAthena.com.
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