This Conversations session between Nilima Achwal and Luis Antezana introduces a whole new way of looking at pitching and even your own purpose as a founder. Nilima’s approach to the founder’s mindset brings a refreshing perspective and many nuggets of wisdom to take with you.

Nilima Achwal of The Female Founders Lab discusses how pre-seed impact founders can defy the stats and magnetize millions!

If you've been building your venture for a little while, chances are, you are feeling tired, under-resourced, and pretty lonely.

The good news is that there are values-aligned investors out there for you - you just have to learn to "pitch with purpose" - to anchor deeply into your highest vision for humanity, and then communicate it with authority and clarity to invite others to join you.

In this session, you’ll experience a shift in:

• how to re-frame your pitch deck to become compelling to any outsider who doesn't understand your business

• how to re-frame your strategy so you can magnetize values-aligned supporters - and keep out the rest

• how to stay grounded, anchored, and powerfully connected to your own vision as you shift, grow, and transform yourself and your venture.

This framework is based on Nilima Achwal’s personal experience scaling her paradigm-shifting sex education program to half a million youth, in a foreign country, with a team of only 3 people and a handful of cash. It has also helped other founders raise millions in her coaching accelerator, The Female Founders Lab.

About Nilima

With over 15 years of experience in the impact venture space, Nilima believes that our industries are currently experiencing a radical systemic shift towards transparency, decentralization, and regenerative and holistic values, led by women, particularly in large industries like healthcare, education, food systems, media, circular economy, and the future of work/communities.

Through her brand The Female Founders Lab, she has helped pre-seed founders with a vision for humanity to raise millions in the past few years. Previously, she has been a purpose-driven, ed-tech founder herself, reaching half a million adolescents across India with paradigm-shifting sex education. She has also created and run accelerators for social entrepreneurs, one of which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. She has worked with impact founders from every region across the globe.

Leveraging her background as a rigorous researcher and writer of business cases for top-tier business schools like Ross and Kellogg, Nilima is able to see, analyze, and forecast industry trends very astutely. She has also been featured in 100+ publications and talks worldwide, including CNBC, VICE, and TEDx, and has starred on 8 episodes of The Real Deal, a reality show about social entrepreneurs in India.