Startup Life Show With Ande Lyons

Founders need a deep purpose – a north star – to help them navigate the murky waters of founderhood.Our Guest, Kevin Withane, is passionate about purpose-driven startups that make the world a better place. He’s the founder of Diversity X, a pre-seed to seed-stage venture capital fund (in the works) to support UK and European-based underestimated founders of purpose-led startups and tech startups focused on solving issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.While he’s building Diversity X, Kevin is a purpose-led senior lawyer and ethics and compliance executive at an FTSE 250 company. An independent non-executive director of various private companies, Kevin also sits on the advisory board of several startups, and he hosts the Cocktail Leadership podcast. Kevin has lived and worked in the UK, China, Hong Kong, Russia and the United States as well as traveling extensively across Europe and Asia where he has gained deep insights into the shift towards human leadership and the demand for business to align thei