Taryn Andersen

Taryn Andersen

CEO and co-founder of Impulse4Women, operating worldwide to connect women founders’ and Social Impact leaders with the right investors.

CEO and co-founder of Impulse4Women, operating worldwide to connect women founders’ and Social Impact leaders with the right investors.

Taryn Andersen is CEO and co-founder of Impulse4Women, an international non-profit association operating both online and offline. She started her professional background in private banking. In 2016 she moved into venture capital with THCAP VC, investing in North America and Europe. Then, she has served as a mentor at Startup-Bootcamp and other players of the ecosystem. Taryn co-founded Impulse4Women in 2017, providing the required tools and skills to increase the probability of funding for female led startups.

Taryn Andersen is CEO and co-founder of Impulse4Women, an international non-profit association operating both online and offline. She started her professional background in private banking. In 2016 she moved into venture capital with THCAP VC, investing in North America and Europe. Then, she has served as a mentor at Startup-Bootcamp and other players of the ecosystem. Taryn co-founded Impulse4Women in 2017, providing the required tools and skills to increase the probability of funding for female led startups.

Taryn Andersen is the CEO and co-founder of Impulse4women, an international association operating online and offline. The objective is to connect Women Entrepreneurs in technology and Social Impact projects with investors, companies, public-private institutions. They support each stage of startup development, providing the necessary tools and skills to increase the probability of financing, depending on the sector, business model, maturity, economic needs. They offer everything from Webinars, Podcasts, Pitching Sessions, Mentoring, training courses, etc.

Taryn Andersen is the CEO and co-founder of Impulse4women, an international association operating online and offline. The objective is to connect Women Entrepreneurs in technology and Social Impact projects with investors, companies, public-private institutions. They support each stage of startup development, providing the necessary tools and skills to increase the probability of financing, depending on the sector, business model, maturity, economic needs. They offer everything from Webinars, Podcasts, Pitching Sessions, Mentoring, training courses, etc.

The next question was: How can we create this link between startup and investor in the most efficient way possible? For this Taryn and her team have developed a matchmaking application to enhance the interaction between investors and founders. It works by showing investors the most relevant startups in terms of their chosen preferences and they can connect with those that they have found an interest in. Both investors and startups can sign up through the Impulse4Women website and by following a simple process they will have exposure to our whole ecosystem. This is an efficient and entertaining way to find the project the investors were looking for.

The next question was: How can we create this link between startup and investor in the most efficient way possible? For this Taryn and her team have developed a matchmaking application to enhance the interaction between investors and founders. It works by showing investors the most relevant startups in terms of their chosen preferences and they can connect with those that they have found an interest in. Both investors and startups can sign up through the Impulse4Women website and by following a simple process they will have exposure to our whole ecosystem. This is an efficient and entertaining way to find the project the investors were looking for.

Taryn graduated in PLD from IESE Business School and is currently the Director of Investor Relations at Telegraph Hill Venture Capital. He has worked in private banking for 13 years, concluding that stage at GBS Finanzas. He is a member of the Board of Global StartupCities and, since February 2019, a jury of the EIC Acceleration of the European Commission.

Taryn graduated in PLD from IESE Business School and is currently the Director of Investor Relations at Telegraph Hill Venture Capital. He has worked in private banking for 13 years, concluding that stage at GBS Finanzas. He is a member of the Board of Global StartupCities and, since February 2019, a jury of the EIC Acceleration of the European Commission.

Andersen is also a mentor at DataQuarks, a startup dedicated to databases in 2014 and in 2015 at Galigú RV through Startupbootcamp and also for the EVERIS Foundation in the Girls in STEAM program, in the EIT Food accelerator, tech2impact, together with UN Women in 2020, in addition to holding workshops for the EIC Women Leadership Programme. Judge of the Startup Contest in Tenerife InTech, UNWTO, Sonar+D, Menorca Millenials, IoT Week, IBM, CaixaBank, ITU Telecom, GSMA – 4YFN. In 2011 he founded the Pluribus United Foundations, made up of 15 different private foundations.

From Telegraph Hill Venture Capital they invest in sectors such as Cybersecurity, FinTech, EdTech, PropTech, among others, entering early phases and in proposals that come from North America and Europe. Some of the ones invested by Taryn are: Apptopia, Apozy, Bigle Legal, Brickbro, BuildBetter, Citruslabs, Circa, Claim Compass, Cobalt, Crossfader, Gallea, Kubbo, Loyal Guru, Manufactured, Marti, Newhound, Oonair, Planned, Quote Machine, Taclia, TheBouqs, Traction Labs, Voila! and Wedo.

In 2017 Taryn created Impulse4Women because she was sensitive that women were not attracting investment such as men. Today, things have been fortunately changing.

Impulse4Women missions are not to empower women founders but help them to grow, providing the tools founders need.

Impulse4Women community benefits, a free matching service for startups and social impact projects. But also the opportunity to have fundraising exposure to more than 1,500 international startup investors: venture capitalists, corporate venture capitalists and corporates.

Impulse4Women 2023 main goals:

At the end of 2023, Impulse4Women relaunched a new version of its matchmaking platform that helped female tech entrepreneurs to find the right investors. 2023 goals are to reach 22,000 startups by the end of the year creating a great ecosystem in different sectors such as blockchain, health, proptech and food tech, with partners, accelerators, donors and companies.In the near future, we want to have more mentoring sessions in different sectors.

Impulse4Women platform offers a solution to the following problem: Why does the female entrepreneurs act differently from men with investors?

Impulse4Women platform was needed. This platform was needed to offer solutions to investors who demanded to invest in the world of technology and startups, and Taryn Andersen “stepped up” with Impulse4Women to provide solutions.

All the women who were consulted are currently part of the advisory council; because all of them supported an initiative that has been proposed, the difficult task, of increasing the growth of women entrepreneurs in their own cities and countries.

A great team that connects these women technological entrepreneurs with the right investor, and they can make their technological startups a reality.

The world of work demands a profile of an entrepreneurial, technological and competitive woman. This process is what Impulse4Women has started; and today there are already thousands registered startups. Startups that can access the webinars and mentoring that are made available to them. An academic part that is fundamental and necessary to be able to solve situations that others have lived and experienced before.

Kalee Boisvert has been in the financial industry for over 15 years, but her love of money started very young. Growing up in a single parent household, she watched her mom struggle with finances and wished there was something she could do to help. Around this time, she realized she needed to find her own way to save and earn if she wasn’t going to allow her circumstances to define her. And so, her own journey to financial literacy began.

Today, as a single mom and financially independent woman, Kalee is called to support women in their financial lives. Early on she had decided that no woman should ever feel anxious about having enough money to support themselves, their family, or their future. She felt the pull toward a career that would allow her to pursue this deeply personal goal to advocate for women and their money, which led her on the path to becoming a financial advisor. Being an advisor allows her to work directly with women to empower and support them and help put an end to any money-related stress and doubts.