According to the report Funding in the CEE Region by European Women in VC, of all the EU venture funding in 2020, only 1% went to women-led startups, while 5% went to mixed founding and 94% to all-male teams. Due to Covid-19, the situation had immensely worsened. At Baltic Sandbox, we believe that being crucially undervalued, female-founded startups need additional support to overwhelm the growing inequality and take their place in the sun. To change the gender diversity in CEE startups and venture capital, we are building a Women in Tech community, including educational programs for female-founded startups and female Business Angel leaders, empowering women to invest in Tech. The Acceleration Program aims to work with female founded/co-founded startups, to empower exceptional teams worldwide, boost their expertise, expand their network, and offer them funding opportunities from the most credible EU/USA VCs, angels, and institutional investors. The goal of the program is to help from up to 10 startups to deliver a working product (service) to the EU market, to start sales in the EU, to collaborate or partner with Corporate Partners. The Acceleration Program provides startup founders mentors and experts, network of public and corporate market players, technical and business expertise, investment network. Female founders care more about the impact and sustainability of their products, and we see it as an opportunity to build a better world for all of us. The program includes twelve modules: value proposition and communication, product-market fit, customer development, business model, financial planning, sales, startup-investor relations and fundraising, business development, product development, PR and marketing, market research, corporate-startup collaborations and partnerships and technology development. It is a hands-on involvement in helping you get ready to build, scale and fundraise. Learn more about Baltic Sandbox and our Experts and Mentors. The selection to the program has several very easy steps: Start by filling in the form below.
Why Women in Tech?
Overview of the Program
Our main goals
We are looking for the teams:
Women in Tech Ukraine Acceleration Program
The program goes online from March 28, 2022, to June 18, 2022.
“Ok, I'm in. What’s next?”
The deadline for the applications is March 14, 2022.