Exited Founders Club – The 51 Percent Club

The Exited Founders Club:
A National Network for Women Who Have Scaled & Sold

The journey of scaling and selling a business is unique, exhilarating, and often profoundly solitary. At The 51% Club, we believe that success deserves connection.

The Exited Founders Club is a new national network dedicated to uniting the UK’s most successful female entrepreneurs who have navigated the complex, transformative path of a business exit. This is a powerful peer group created to share experiences, transfer knowledge, and channel capital back into the ecosystem.

What we’re aiming to achieve

Our mission is built around delivering unparalleled value through three core objectives:

Connection with founders who “get it!”

Connect with women who genuinely understand the journey, from the strategic decisions leading up to a trade sale, to navigating the personal and professional transition that follows an exit. This is a place for candid conversations, trusted advice, and lasting peer support among HNWIs.

Mentoring the next wave of scaling founders

Leverage your invaluable exit experience to inform and empower the next generation. We facilitate opportunities to mentor scaling female founders through the often-unspoken complexities of the selling process, ensuring your hard-won knowledge creates a lasting – and meaningful – legacy.

Investing back into the ecosystem

We aim to mobilise the capital and experience within our network to benefit the wider ecosystem by inspiring exited founders to consider becoming Angel Investors. We will provide the support needed to start your investment journey, helping to channel crucial “smart money” back into the system.

Powered by Independent Women

We are delighted that Independent Women, part of Forvis Mazars in the UK, has joined us as sponsor of The Exited Founders Club.

Independent Women provides personalised, forward-thinking financial strategies that empower women to achieve their goals and secure their financial wellbeing, so The 51% Club is the perfect fit!

As one of the first independent advisory firms to focus on the needs of women, IW’s passion will and forever remains empowering clients to take control of their finances.

Upcoming Events

January 2026: Invite-only dinner for West Midlands based exited founders.
Q1 2026: Launch event for London exited founders.
Q2 2026: Launch event for Manchester exited founders.
Q3 2026: Event for Birmingham exited founders.

If you’re keen to find out more about the Exited Founders Club, as an exited founder or supporter, email girlpower@the51percent.club

“Exited founders share one of the most unique experiences, and we wanted to create a space where that could be celebrated but also help the next wave of scaling founders who are set to go through the same. With this club, we want to build a national network of incredible women who have scaled, sold, and are now looking to re-invest their time and money into the wider female-powered ecosystem.”