Oxford Saïd launches SOFIA for Business voice agent to make women founder research accessible

·2026.11.13 21:00

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The agent, built on ElevenAgents, allows aspiring founders to converse with insights from the Inspiring Female Founders initiative while contributing new data to the research.

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SOFIA for Business launched at the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum (OSEF) as a voice agent that makes research from the Inspiring Female Founders initiative accessible to aspiring founders.
The tool addresses the underfunding of female-only teams, which receive about 2.3% of venture capital, by providing role models and knowledge through conversational interviews.
SOFIA performs a dual function: it answers questions from founders based on existing research and conducts its own interviews, adding new data to the knowledge base with participant consent.
The project is co-founded by Pinar Ozcan, Amanda Slavin, and Arabella Nyffenegger, with technical support from ElevenLabs' Impact Program × Professors, which provides free access to tools for university educators.

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