Safe Space: Huckletree’s Fight for Fairer Funding

The film industry, where Gabriela Hersham began her career, is notoriously biased against female leadership.

And while Hersham says that she was treated fairly as an actor and a producer, when she decided to start her own business, in 2013, she ran headlong into discrimination.“It has become very much a journey that we like to share to help entrepreneurs at Huckletree,” she says, describing her experience raising seed funding for her coworking company, which now has six locations—five in London and another in Dublin. “I was treated really appallingly by people that I went to for investments.”