Working in a London investment bank, Deirdre McGettrick became conscious that the men she was working with were actively seeking out ways to generate wealth through investing, whereas her high-net-worth female co-workers were not.  The men she worked with had investment clubs and access to networks, which didn’t exclude women, but by their nature didn’t include them either. It was the memory of this that drove Sligo-born McGettrick’s determination to have at least 30 per cent female investors in her seed funding round, which has just been announced today.  Her company, Ufurnish, is the UK’s largest furniture comparison site, akin…

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