The Women’s Search Network (WSN) provides a platform to encourage more women to consider entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) as a viable career path and to support female searchers and CEOs achieve the highest levels of success.
We aim to empower women through education and to create meaningful opportunities for women in ETA to connect with, learn from, and support one another on their leadership journey.
We EXPOSE Prospective Searchers to all facets of ETA to ensure that they have a clear view of the opportunities and challenges of this career path.
We EMPOWER Active Searchers by providing them with tools, resources, and support to increase their likelihood of acquiring.
We ENRICH CEOs by providing resources and support to ensure they are primed for success leading and generating value across their companies.
In the last five years, there has been exponential growth in the number of women pursuing search as a career, with record numbers of female CEOs now leading search-acquired businesses.
*Numbers represent all female searchers known to the Women’s Search Network. It includes searchers who pursued traditional, self-funded and accelerator-backed searches. We believe this is largely representative (though not all inclusive) of the universe of women who are searching or leading search-acquired companies.
Just do it! There are so many unknowns in search and in life but taking the plunge is the best decision I have made in my life. Invest in YOU!
When fundraising, ask prospective investors some hard questions about their values on topics important to you, like family planning. You want to align yourself with partners that support you. Speak with female CEOs that have gone through the process. We want to help women pursue search funds and are happy to talk to you!
Nothing worthwhile is easy. Expect searching to be hard but remind yourself you're resilient. Also, you can still buy a company later in life even if you give search your best go and it doesn't pan out in that 2-year time frame. Might as well give it your all!
Paige Sopcic transitioned from Broadtree Partners to acquire and lead CanSource, which was recently acquired by TricorBraun.
Nikita is based out of Trilogy’s office in Bellevue, Washington and joined the team after a successful exit as CEO of Crown Health.
Patricia is among the first five women to successfully exit a search fund-owned business in North America and the first in Canada.
