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Zoe Peden, investor and award-winning educational technology entrepreneur joins us to talk about her journey. Founder of FutureWorldVC and MyChoicePad, a language development product has made a lasting impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities. Zoe began her career in the charity sector, she describes life as an entrepreneur seeking funding, balancing the ups and downs and living off pure determination and creative talent.
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Zoe is an experienced tech entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years operating and board experience in technology companies. She co-founded one of the UK’s top-grossing education apps, MyChoicePad.
MyChoicePad is an assistive technology that uses a combination of sign language and symbols to enable children and adults with learning disabilities to communicate more effectively. It’s helped over 100,000 lead more independent lives. Achievements include Elle Magazine UK Female Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Finalist Global Mobile Awards, BAA Female-led investment of the Year, BT Connected Society Award and UnLtd Big Venture Challenge Winner.
Zoe also sits on the other side of the table as an investor for Ananda Impact Ventures - one of Europe’s largest impact venture capital organisations. She sources and supports a portfolio of some of the world’s most impactful tech companies. In addition, Zoe sits on an Investment Committee for UnLtd and is also a Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School where she has the privilege of teaching some of the world's brightest future entrepreneurs on the MSc Entrepreneurship.
Produced by Mark Tomlin
Podcast links:
FutureWorldVC - “Supporting the future partners in venture capital who want to invest to make a change.
The mindful way”.
MyChoicePad - “Better communication for everyone language and communication development on the iPad.”
Unreasonable article - “Speech, language, and communication are the foundational skills that are vital to literacy. Just as food and water are crucial to survival, communication is the basis of self-expression, an important and necessary life skill.”
Kids - “Giving disabled children a brighter future - Zoe Peden is an award-winning technology entrepreneur who for the last decade has focussed on building impactful tech to help children and adults with speech, language and communication needs. Zoe is experienced in working across education, health and social care and is driven by helping families get access and the most effective support for their needs”.
Ananda Impact Ventures - “Is one of the leading impact investors in Europe. Our investees address social challenges in vital areas such as education, health, consumption, and ageing population.”
SheEO - “Is a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the Worlds To-Do List. Our goal is to reach 1M Activators, 10,000 women-led Ventures and a $1B perpetual fund to support women for generations to come”.
The Guardian - Winner of the Big Venture Challenge: Zoe Peden founder of MyChoicePad.
Iris Speaks - “We’re on a mission to transform speech and language therapy. We want to make it accessible and affordable for every person on earth. We will start to do this by combining cutting edge technology with personalised programmes of effective therapy managed by highly experienced tech-savvy therapists.”