Episode 19 with Shirin Dehghan

For our final episode of Season 2, we are delighted to have Shirin Dehghan on our podcast. Shirin moved to the UK from Iran when she was 14, went into engineering, developed software during her second maternity leave that led to her leaving her job at Vodafone and founding and running a company as CEO, which she ultimately sold for £85m! Shirin is incredibly inspiring and has consistently taken brave steps in pursuit of her career whilst juggling motherhood to 2 children.

Shirin is an outstanding engineering entrepreneur. Since selling her company, she has extensive experience in raising venture capital and since 2016 she has been a Chairwoman and Investor of leading start-ups, medium sized and blue-chip companies. She has been an active angel investor and senior partner of a leading venture capital fund in London.  Shirin’s latest venture is a fintech called Oxford Algorithms where she is full time CEO and co-founder.

Shirin is a huge supporter of women and girls doing STEM subjects and is a trustee of a charity, Smallpiece, that aims to do just this.

Shirin is a Winner of multiple awards including Blackberry Woman in Technology, Best Woman in Mobile, Business Woman of the year 2013, and European Entrepreneur of the year 2013.