Investing
in Women

We back founders building strong, sustainable and highly-scalable technology businesses.

Our

mission

Our mission is to close the gap in venture capital funding for women by helping founders build healthy, sustainable and highly scalable businesses. We do this by being an early investor in women-led ventures, providing cash investment and support to their startups.

HearstLab exclusively invests in women-led and co-led companies and provides networks and resources to accelerate the growth of their businesses.

HearstLab was established by Eve Burton, Executive Vice President Hearst, and has funded over 50 companies since its inception in 2016.

Our
Approach

One of the biggest challenges to female entrepreneurs is access: access to networks, access to business advice and access to capital. We seek to cure this problem.

Capital

We make cash investment in the range of 100,000£/€ to 500,000£/€ and collaboratively invest alongside VCs and angels.

Networks

HearstLab Scouts are women leaders across Hearst who share their expertise, experience and networks. Their global, collective expertise spans industries including finance, transportation, health and media. Our Scouts are key to the success of HearstLab and a source of support to our portfolio companies. We also help with connections to coinvestors and angels.

Advice

Advice, support and resources from Hearst, HearstLab and its Scouts.

We invest in woman-led companies:

At pre-seed and seed stage
Building tech-enabled business
With affinity to Hearst’s diverse business portfolio including fintech, transportation/ aviation tech, healthtech and health data businesses, consumer media, enterprise tech
With live product or demonstrated initial market validation

The Team

Kenan
Packman

General Manager

Aimee
Nisbet

Scout

Azahara
Espejo

Country Manager – Spain

About

Hearst

Hearst is a leading global, diversified information, services and media company with operations in 40 countries.

Hearst’s major interests include financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 33 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; digital services businesses; and nearly 260 magazines around the world.