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Little Kanga Ltd

Becky Lodge is a degree and CIM qualified Founder and Director with a 30 year career history in STEAM based markets as an international sales and marketing professional. Founder and Director of Little Kanga Ltd (2015) Becky later founded the brand ‘StartUp Disruptors’ a community that helps early stage start-ups and aspiring business owners to fund and scale their projects and businesses and look after their mental health on the journey. Partners are Uber, Funding Circle and Faster Capital. Started with 9 people in a pub in Portsmouth in 2016 (to protect the interests of new business owners that were neurodiverse and subject to exploitation), Becky grew the membership community via social media to 150 members in year one and now the community has over 50,000 social media followers and 2,000 members on Facebook, via a subscription based service for £19.99 pcm that allows people to access to qualified experts at a fraction of the normal costs for business coaching, advice, support and community. This has now become known as the ‘Netflix’ of entrepreneurship education in the UK. This model will be rolled out to LEPs across the UK, starting with her home LEP in the Solent region and then on-boarding the rest of the UK. One of Sky News 100 Women in business in 2017 and a contributing author to BBC News online for Technology, Becky was the first tech mentor in the UK to be approached by Faster Capital (Venture Capital) in Dubai to aid their tech start-ups for mentoring. A lecturer in operational sales management at the University of Portsmouth Business School, Becky has an agenda around enabling social mobility and gender parity through making entrepreneurship accessible and affordable for all. ‘StartUp Disruptors’ is sponsored and supported by Uber, Funding Circle, Faster Capital, Notion Capital, Tech London Advocates and many others. This disruptive model has been the result of Becky’s ability to ‘see around corners’ due to her own neurodiversity. Labelled as ‘gifted’ in certain subjects at school and told that she was a ‘failure’ in others, has driven her to be a top 1% sales performer throughout her career. Becky is considered to be the ‘go to’ person in the early stage entrepreneurship space and she is a passionate future thinker, innovator and social media influencer in B2B in the UK with over 15,000 connections and followers on LinkedIn and 10,000 followers on Twitter alone. A super-connector with high EQ/emotional intelligence and open mindset, Becky is driven to help change the entrepreneurship education space for future generations. StartUp Disruptors has transformed the city of Portsmouth and in 2020, it was named as the most entrepreneurial city in the UK as a direct result of Becky starting the eco-system in partnership with the University of Portsmouth Business School. You can find out more about Little Kanga via the website: www.littlekanga.co.uk and StartUp Disruptors has a dedicated website at: www.startupdisruptors.co.uk

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