FEMALE FOUNDER INITIATIVE
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We are a group of women backed by Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator, here to help you build your company.
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Founder Institute, the parent company of the Female Founder Initiative, publishes content from top startup thought leaders. Every post is aimed at helping pre-seed startups launch and grow.
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Every week the Founder Institute hosts free startup events and workshops around the world, including female founder panels that cover a gamut of topics essential to helping you build and grow your company.
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We provide female founders with the best content and resources to help you start, build and fund your companies.
What is Our Mission?
The mission of the Female Founder Initiative is to help women around the world start, build, and fund their startup companies with the goal of having female-founded companies be 40% of Founder Institute’s 2021 Portfolio.
In 2011, the Founder Institute introduced fellowships for the top female applicants to boost the number of women launching technology startups. This program led to an immediate 60%+ boost in women-founded portfolio companies, but leveled off in the following years.
The Female Founder Initiative was formed in 2016 to create more opportunities for women to build successful companies through Founder Institute’s global pre-seed accelerator program.
We created the initiative with the overarching goal of leveraging the Founder Institute’s scope (180+ cities, 65+ countries) to make the global technology sector more gender-balanced.
Each year of the initiative we have increased the number of women-founded portfolio companies created through the Founder Institute. We believe we can make a lasting impact on gender balance in the technology sector if 40% of our portfolio companies produced in 2021 are founded by women.
RESOURCES
Over the last few years, we have partnered with and discovered many organizations that can help female founders succeed.