Why Women in Tech?
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.
Overview of the Program
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.
Our main goals
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.
- To support and help female founded startups to develop their products, an launch pilots on the EU market
- To deliver to startups knowledge and expertise on: business models, tech and development, marketing and PR, sales and customer development, financial planning and investors’ relations
- To help startups to establish their corporate, investment, media, and partners’ network
We are looking for the teams:
- Female founded/co-founded
- Based in the Ukraine or of Ukrainian origin
- English speaking team with at least 2 founders
- Has an MVP or working product
- Ready for pilots/sales in the EU
Women in Tech Ukraine Acceleration Program
- We expect to take up to 10 teams
- A 12-week intensive hybrid online and offline program
- Tailored acceleration and multiple intros with corporates and other required industries
- Access to top-notch experts to accelerate your growth in the EU
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.
The program goes online from March 28, 2022, to June 18, 2022.
Learn more about Baltic Sandbox and our Experts and Mentors.
“Ok, I'm in. What’s next?”
The selection to the program has several very easy steps:
- Introductory interview
- Follow-up interview with a program expert
- Selection announcement
- Program launch
Start by filling in the form below.
The deadline for the applications is March 14, 2022.
