Are you a female founder or co-founder of a business based in Africa? Do you want your business to reach the next stage, aspire to grow your business reach & achieve substantial growth?
Here is a chance for you to apply for the Female Founder Program.
The program aims to help you to develop your entrepreneurial mindset, acquire adequate skills, understand the market, grow your reach, and pitch your business to investors.
The program is designed to holistically support African female founders in their entrepreneurial journey, using the lean and agile methodology as a driver, focusing on running experiments to facilitate growth, and allowing a safe space to fail and to learn for 3 months.
The targets are female founders of startups or SMEs based in the continent of Africa who:
This program is organized by She Starts Africa, a social enterprise that aims to empower women and increase the number of women actively engaged in the economy by building their capacities in leadership and entrepreneurship.
Women face extra adversities to become leaders due to unconscious bias, lack of adequate skills, and limited opportunities.
Thus, we offer them a safe space, holistic programs, and specific mentoring, so that they become able to climb the C-suite positions or turn their ideas into successful innovative ventures.
To date, She Starts Africa has impacted over 750 women and has a presence in 6 countries. She Starts Africa draws its strength from its community composed of more than 2700K women.
The goal is to empower and connect our community members and provide them with the resources and opportunities they need to grow.
The Female Founders program is part of some leading programs that She Starts Africa offers. The Female Founders Program is a portal where participants will get access to the timeline, sessions, and resources.
An audit will be conducted to analyze the female founders’ businesses status: management, team, processes, and sales in order to offer them some customizable sessions to solve their specific pain points
The platform also offers, The Labyrinth Program, an intensive and immersive initiation to entrepreneurship program (Entrepreneurship Education) that targets young women aged 18 to 30 who can become future entrepreneurs She Starts UC is a movement led by She Starts Africa in the Tunisian universities.
The mission is to launch one club per university that targets female students, where we offer training, tools, and resources to promote entrepreneurship among them and to prepare them for a future of entrepreneurship and support in career paths.
For more details on how to apply for the program, click here! All the best!