Women's Capital Summit Spotlights Investment in Women's Sports

The Women’s Capital Summit is set to host a line-up of powerful speakers from various fields such as sports, investment, business, and media to explore the growing economy of women’s sports and its potential for creating economic gains for women entrepreneurs. The conversations will extend beyond the investment figures to examine the sport’s infrastructure and the possibilities necessary for maintaining growth within the sport's industry.

Investors, leagues, founders, and business leaders will brainstorm methods of building stronger business connections, expanding women's ownership, fostering women’s entrepreneurship, and increasing women’s representation in decision-making roles. Ultimately, the summit will be focused on how to transform the momentum created in relation to women’s sports into a more economic one, so that women entrepreneurs are able to add value to the sector while also deriving benefit from its growth.

Key Highlights:

• Women’s Capital Summit spotlights investment opportunities in women’s sports
• Women Business Collaborative advances capital access for women entrepreneurs
• Sophia Bush champions investment in women’s sports and women-led businesses

The "Beyond the Game: Investing in the Future of Women in Sport" workshop will focus on analyzing the changing dynamics of the flow of capital within the sports sector as well as the investment opportunities that arise as part of the development of women's sports.

Actress, social activist, entrepreneur and investor, Sophia Bush is scheduled to participate in the Summit with the aim of bringing attention to the need for investing in women’s sports and creating better financial routes for women entrepreneurs.

"Women's sports is no longer an emerging opportunity—it is a growing and increasingly sophisticated investment market," said Gwen Young, CEO of Women Business Collaborative. "The opportunity extends well beyond teams and leagues. Women athletes are becoming investors, founders and business leaders, while entrepreneurs are building companies across media, technology, health, consumer products and the broader sports ecosystem. The Women's Capital Summit is designed to bring those entrepreneurs together with the capital and relationships needed to grow."

Drawing upon the expertise of sport owners, professional league organizations, venture investors, and media professionals, the esteemed panel will look at the changing face of sport through new funding and innovation. Topics under discussion include team and league expansion, technological advancements, athletes as entrepreneurs, changing business models and the impact of private equity investments.

The Women’s Capital Summit creates space for female founders to have meaningful dialogue with the investors and decision makers, discussions with the investors, matchmaking, networking and other activities. The event aims at providing the women-led enterprises with access to the capital and other important resources for scaling their business.

The Summit’s emphasis on sports adds another dimension to the mission in one of the fastest growing sectors of the global economy. The program puts more emphasis on the economic benefits arising from investments, ownership, entrepreneurialism, and leadership. With constructive dialogue and interaction between entrepreneurs and their funding sources, the summit aims at enhancing the channels for female entrepreneurs to raise capital and scale their enterprises for sustainable value creation.