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LSE Generate is the entrepreneurship hub of the London School of Economics, supporting early-stage ventures through funding, mentorship, and training. Its Women Founders program hosts retreats twice a year, in the UK and internationally, to give women founders space to connect, learn, and grow as leaders.
While the retreats were designed to build confidence, knowledge, and community among women founders, LSE Generate needed a way to measure whether participants were truly benefiting and to demonstrate program impact over time. Traditional post-event surveys offered only limited snapshots of participants’ experiences, and response rates with email surveys are notoriously low.
LSE Generate partners with Simba to integrate WhatsApp-based baseline, endline, and follow-up surveys into its retreats. The mobile format ensured high participation, while Simba’s AI-enabled analysis captured sentiment shifts and qualitative feedback. Surveys assessed confidence, knowledge, and community, creating a data-rich picture of participant growth.
With Simba, LSE Generate can now demonstrate the measurable impact of its Women Founders retreats. Participants consistently reported significant gains in knowledge, confidence, and community - showing, for example, knowledge scores increasing by nearly half and confidence improving by more than a third. Many founders also described feeling more connected to a supportive peer network, a shift reflected in strong community growth metrics. Net Promoter Scores underscored this transformation, reaching as high as 100 at the Lisbon retreat. These results validate the retreats’ ability to equip women founders not just with skills, but with the confidence and community they need to thrive.
LSE Generate uses Simba to track the impact of women founder retreats, showing double-digit gains in confidence, knowledge, and community across participants.
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