Shifting Capital with Jessica Espinoza
Shifting Capital is an international podcast featuring innovative female fund managers, impact-driven entrepreneurs and courageous capital providers from around the world. Hosted by Jessica Espinoza and her edtech venture XOCO, Shifting Capital is about game-changing investment strategies and audacious entrepreneurs driving impact at scale.
Shifting Capital with Jessica Espinoza
Shifting Capital with Cathy Goddard, FyreFem, South Africa
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XOCO Unlimited
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Season 1
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Episode 3
Cathy Goddard is the CEO and Founding Partner of FyreFem, a South African-based women-owned private equity and debt fund. FyreFem is currently fundraising for Firebird Revitalisation Fund, an SME focused fund with a unique gender lens strategy. Cathy is combining her longstanding track record as a business rescue practitioner with her passion for gender equality to bring women into corporate ownership through a rescue-and-build strategy. In this episode, she offers insights into why the class ceiling is so incredibly thick in the private equity industry, how to get more women into investment committees, and how to catapult women into corporate ownership through innovative financial engineering. Tune in!