Her Startup program For African Female Entrepreneurs (Up to $5,000 Funding)

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Supporting Female Entrepreneurship: Applications are open for Her Startup program. Her Startup is a program designed as a response to the challenges faced by female founders in the entrepreneurial landscape.

Her Startup is a unique combination of proven entrepreneurship training, seed funding, and mentoring to offer comprehensive and long term solutions to the funding issue of female led start-ups. The objective of the program is to provide guidance and invest in African+Women-led early-stage companies with high growth potential in emerging industries.

Her Startup Program

Her Startup is a unique combination of training, funding, and mentoring.

Entrepreneurship Training

A 14-week intensive training program for participating female entrepreneurs facilitated by the Founder Institute (FI). Renowned as one of the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator programs, FI is adept at transforming ideas into fundable startups and startups into global businesses.

The 4 months Core Program from the Founder’s Institute is split into three tracks designed for all kind of founders at the pre-seed stage. It covers the following topics: vision & mission of the business, customer development, revenue & business models, pitch mastery, mentors, legal & equity, go-to-market & scale, product development, investor progress review, co-founders & team, growth, funding.

Startup Capital

Successful graduates of the FI accelerator program will pitch to an investment committee for seed financing of up to $5,000.

Mentorship and Support

Founders will receive comprehensive support for continued success. This includes 6 months of mentorship, access to co-working space, and healthcare coverage for 1 year. Based on performance, graduates will receive support for additional capital raise.

Eligibility Criteria for Her Startup

The program is open to female founders, co-founders or CEO from all over Africa. However, there will be a stronger focus on West Africa at the program launch.
With their internal selection criteria, a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 50 participants will be selected and sent to FI, who will then conduct the final screening of 10 founders who will make up the first cohort.