Sophie Winwood

Operating Partner at Foxe Capital

Speaker

Sophie is an Operating Partner at the newly formed Foxe Capital, alongside Ruth Foxe Blader. Her role is to discover, evaluate and execute early stage FinTech and InsurTech investments as well as supporting current portfolio companies. Sophie has been recognised on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist in 2020 & 2021, as one of the 34 rising stars in Venture capital in 2023 by Business Insider and is a regular guest on the 11:FS's FinTech and InsurTech Insider podcast. She was previously spent 5 years at Anthemis, the FinTech focussed fund, for 5 years, leading and supporting investments including Ember, Opply, Twice, Kaiko and Ergo.

Sophie is also the CEO & co-founder of WVC:E. Since the founding of the company in April 2022, WVC:E has become a global community promoting inclusion, empowerment and integration of venture capital. Culminating in a 350+ person annual summit (the most recent of which was held in October 2023), WVC seeks to develop highly productive networks to increase the success of diverse investors and founders, partly through frequent local and virtual events, supported by a continuous stream of content and resources. The 750+ member WVC:E community includes GPs, LPs, investors, founders, and women working in tech.