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By Jennifer Sieg The Invest in Women Taskforce, the newest government-backed and industry-led initiative tasked with closing the UK’s female funding gap, was announced last week. It comes as British Business Bank reports have shown that for more than a decade, the amount of venture capital funding provided to female-led businesses has hardly budged at just two to three per cent of the UK’s total. Will this new task force, dedicated to creating a £250m funding pot for female entrepreneurs looking to start – and scale – their business, finally be the one to deliver results? Following in the foot…

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