Most speakers talk about the boardroom. June has been in it.
Founder, MyPholyo
Venture Partner, Samos Investments
Founder, Levare Ventures
June Angelides was born in London and raised in Lagos, where she grew up watching women hold many roles at once, building income and influence across multiple pursuits at the same time. The idea that a career should narrow a person down to one title never made sense to her.
She began her career at Silicon Valley Bank, working with founders and funds. During her second maternity leave, she founded Mums in Technology, the UK's first child-friendly coding school, teaching hundreds of women to code with their babies in the room. That work earned her an MBE for services to women in technology and a seat on the UK government's Taskforce for High-Growth Women-Led Businesses.
From there, June moved to the other side of the capital table. Over her career she has backed more than £100 million in investment across Europe and Africa, most recently through Levare Ventures, which she founded to invest in deep tech, life sciences and healthtech. She is a Venture Partner at Samos Investments and sits on the boards of Ruka Hair, Jude, The Tech Bros and Code First Girls. In 2020, she founded the VC Mentoring Group, a community of 350 aspiring and diverse investors learning the craft of venture together.
Along the way, she had a realisation that changed everything. She discovered she was charging a fraction of what peers with identical experience commanded for the same work. It wasn't a talent gap. It was an information gap. At senior levels, where compensation is rarely public and benchmarks do not exist, that gap is an expensive one.
That realisation became MyPholyo, the first data infrastructure built for portfolio careerists, benchmarking rates, mapping income streams and surfacing the value senior professionals are leaving unpriced. Millions of people now work the way June always has, across many roles, and MyPholyo gives them the tools to price and manage that work.
June is a mother of three, a LinkedIn Top Voice, one of the Financial Times' Most Influential Tech Leaders, one of Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in Tech, an Honorary Fellow of the IET, and host of the Believe It, Achieve It podcast. With her sister, she co-founded Mama's Breakfast Club CIC, which feeds children daily in Lagos, the city where she grew up.
