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FemWealth Issue #27
In loving memory of all the innocent lives lost in 9/11 and its aftermath combats …
Happy Sunday, FemWealth Friends!
This week’s edition shines a light on the incredibly talented tennis players Emma Raducanu & Leylah Fernandez who are among the youngest players to reach a Major final. It also includes a round-up of the most important news of the week.
FemWealth Spotlight ✨
The 18-year old Emma Raducanu, a British Tennis player of Romanian and Chinese origin, has won her U.S. Open debut without dropping a set in 10 wins from 10 matches. This was her second Grand Slam, after having reached the fourth round of Wimbledon as a wildcard earlier this year. She is the first qualifier ever, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles title.
"I hope the next generation can follow in the steps of some of the legends, for example Billie Jean [King] right here."
Entering the competition, Raducanu was ranked 150th. Now she’s the world No. 23. The U.S. Open brought her a $2,500,000 money prize.
Emma Raducanu: The making of Great Britain's US Open champion
Leylah Fernandez, a 19-year-old Canadian of Ecuadorian and Filipino-Canadian descent, is also one of the most promising tennis players of the new generation. She made her Grand Slam debut at the Australian Open in 2020. She won the first WTA title of her career at Monterrey Open in March 2021.
"I hope I can be as strong and resilient as New York has been the last 20 years. I love you, New York and hope to see you next year."
Fernandez will be No. 28 from Monday.
US Open: Canadian teen Leylah Fernandez's remarkable run
Raducanu and Fernandez are in great company among the world’s youngest elite athletes - Focused, fearless, unflappable – the teenage stars taking sport by storm
Happy (belated) 40th Anniversary, Queen Bey! 👸🏾
(c) BET via Giphy
Read Claudia Rankine on How Beyoncé Became an Icon
FemWealth Favorites ❤️
💸 Ledgy, co-founded by Yoko Spirig raised their Series A led by Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru; Mathilde Collin (Co-founder of Front) has also backed the startup
💸 Meal sharing app OLIO, founded by Tessa Clark and Saasha Celestial-One, has raised $43m in Series B funding
(C) Tessa Clarke and Saasha Celestial-One, the co-founders of Olio
🏥 Serena Williams, Female Founders Fund invest in startup aimed at addressing racial health disparities - HUED, founded by Kimberly Wilson has raised $1.6 million in seed funding
💸 Gaia Capital Partners rebrands as Revaia, closes first €250M growth fund - and becomes Europe’s largest female-founded VC fund
💸 All-Female leadership raises Iceland's largest VC fund, Crowberry Capital
💪🏻 Germany's Angela Merkel declares 'yes, I am a feminist'
♀️👶 Why Congresswoman Sara Jacobs Is Sharing Her Egg Freezing Journey With The World
👩👧👦 Robotics Pioneer Yoky Matsuoka Launches Yohana, New Wellness Company for Moms & Families
(C) Yoky Matsuoka
📚 Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money
✍️ THE WRITER WHO SAW ALL OF THIS COMING The Matrix author Lauren Groff spends a lot of time thinking about humanity’s past, present, and future.
🙌 Fortune’s 40 under 40 - featuring some of the most talented US-based entrepreneurs, executives, artists, and athletes
🥇10 Paralympians who have made history this year
🎬 Hollywood ignored women. Academy Museum’s female curators aren’t making the same mistake
🎓 Amy Zegart: None of My Students Remember 9/11
🌐 REPORTING IN REAL TIME: 5 JOURNALISTS REFLECT ON COVERING 9/11
🌐 Clarissa Ward of CNN Looks Back on the Afghanistan War
🎶 Lorde Releases Maori-Language Mini-Album Featuring ‘Solar Power’ Tracks
🧵 Legendary Cindy Gallop’s take on Vogue’s September Issue
FemWealth Curated News 🗞
COVID Advances Win $3-million Breakthrough Prizes - Biochemist Katalin Karikó, one of the pioneers of mRNA vaccines is among the winners of science’s most lucrative awards; she hopes to funnel some of the prize money back into research into future mRNA vaccines and therapies
The Theranos saga continues, sparking debate over Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” mantra and the future of women in tech - Elizabeth Holmes’s Last Pitch | Prosecutors call Elizabeth Holmes a liar and a cheat as her fraud trial begins | THERANOS’ GREATEST INVENTION WAS ELIZABETH HOLMES
Now the Entire Time’s Up Board Has Resigned over Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal
People said the covid vaccine affected their periods. Now more than $1.6 million will go into researching it. - The US National Institutes of Health awarded funding to researchers at five institutions to study possible links
Is Mexico truly emerging as a gender parity leader? Mexico’s bold break with machismo: Congress is now half female and gender parity is the law | Mexico decriminalizes abortion, a dramatic step in world’s second-biggest Catholic country | Mexico City to Replace Columbus Statue With Indigenous Woman Monument
France to give free access to contraception for women aged up to 25
Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say - despite promises to respect women’s rights, the Taliban interim government is already breaching them
Britney Spears’s father files to end her 13-year conservatorship
FemWealth Recommended Events 📅
Adventures of Women in Tech | Annie Jean-Baptiste in conversation with Alana Karen | Sep 29, 2021 6:00 PM CEST
The FemAgingEra | Advancing Women’s HealthTech Innovation and Investment | October 7
Ada's List Conf | October 8 - 9
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Wish you an outstanding week ahead!
Anamaria
Founder & Writer @FemWealth
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