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Join The Female Founders Accelerator Program

*Applications for Cohort 2024 are closed

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Our Program

Join The Female Founders Accelerator Program

*Applications for Cohort 2024 are closed

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Our Program

Join The Female Founders Accelerator Program

*Applications for Cohort 2024 are closed

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Our Program

Join The Female Founders Accelerator Program

*Applications for Cohort 2024 are closed

Back

Our Program

Join The Female Founders Accelerator Program

*Applications for Cohort 2024 are closed

Goal of the program

The Female Founder’s Acceleration Program is a 3-month online program designed to help early-stage female-led startups raise initial funding and receive support to develop their impact businesses.

This comprehensive program is designed to support women entrepreneurs in building their businesses by providing networking opportunities, peer learning, group workshops and personalized one-on-one mentoring by domain experts, as well as regular pitching opportunities in front of investors.

By combining expert guidance with a supportive community, the program aims to provide the necessary resources, support, and inspiration to help women achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

Who can apply

Female founders

You need to be the company's main (co)founder holding a significant amount of shares.

You need to be the main (co)founder of the company holding a significant amount of shares.




You need to be the main (co)founder of the company holding a significant amount of shares.


SDG focused

Your company's main focus should be on solving a social, environmental, or economic issue, and cover one of the following topics: Emissions Reduction; Waste Management; Education Empowerment; Health & Wellness Democratization; Financial Inclusion.

Early stage

Your company should be at an early stage meaning pre-seed/seed stage with less than €2M raised, with an MVP and early traction.

Your company should be at an early stage meaning pre-seed/seed stage, with an MVP.

Your company should be at an early stage meaning pre-seed/seed stage with less than €2M raised, with an MVP.



Female founders

You need to be the main (co)founder of the company holding a significant amount of shares.

SDG focused

Your company's main focus should be on solving a social, environmental, or economic issue, and cover one of the following topics: Emissions Reduction; Waste Management; Education Empowerment; Health & Wellness Democratization; Financial Inclusion.

Early stage

Your company should be at an early stage meaning pre-seed/seed stage, with an MVP.

Program overview

* Duration: Jan 29th - Apr 23rd 2024

* Duration: Jan 29th - Apr 23rd 2024

Application opening

  • Application Starts on the 14th of Nov. 2023

  • Selection will be based on TF criteria and reviewed by TF experts; startups will be chosen through TF community voting.

Acceleration program kickoff

  • The program Starts on the 1st of Feb, 2024

  • Selected startups will enter a group workshop with TF experts and mentors.

Pitching sessions - bi-weekly

  • Founders will be able to pitch their startups to the investors and TF experts

1:1 Mentoring - weekly

  • The founders will receive one-on-one mentoring sessions with TF experts.

  • The topics covered in these sessions will be based on the individual needs of each startup.

Demo Day

  • Demo Day will be 23rd of April, 2023

  • At the end of the third month, each startup will present a demo to community members, TF experts & investors, and partners.

Benefits

1

Exclusive workshops on wide range of topics to support your business needs

2

1:1 mentoring and matchmaking with experts and mentors

3

Investors connection and pitching opportunity all along the program

4

Peer-to-peer learning and community engagement

5

Potential funding up to €50K under eligibility and selection conditions

6

Visibility, PR and promotion

Cohort #1 in a Nutshell

Thousand Faces alumni have founded some of the most impactful startups.

Our Alumni

Majik Water Technologies

Majik Water is a kenyan social entreprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through air to water technologies starting with the horn of Africa.

TF Cohort 1

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development company led by talented refugees and women. We are on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, with top quality affordable developers.


TF Cohort 1

Kleiderly

Kleiderly recycles textile waste into a recycled plastic using a patent pending technology, to reduce carbon emissions from the fashion industry.


TF Cohort 1

Salubata

At SALUBATA we make modular shoes from recycled plastic wastes thereby contributing to the decrease in the global carbon footprint. Our shoes are customizable, breathable and also available as NFTs!

TF Cohort 1

Biiah

Singing is good for wellbeing, community, health and is the strongest way to express a common emotion, so we designed Biiah, an app that helps people build confidence in the power of their voice.


TF Cohort 1

Jonda Health

30% of the world’s data is health data but it can’t be accessed for research. We are building a distributed collaborative network with data standardization AIs secured by zero knowledge encryption.


TF Cohort 1

Majik Water Technologies

Majik Water is a kenyan social entreprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through air to water technologies starting with the horn of Africa.

TF Cohort 1

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development company led by talented refugees and women. We are on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, with top quality affordable developers.


TF Cohort 1

Kleiderly

Kleiderly recycles textile waste into a recycled plastic using a patent pending technology, to reduce carbon emissions from the fashion industry.


TF Cohort 1

Biiah

Singing is good for wellbeing, community, health and is the strongest way to express a common emotion, so we designed Biiah, an app that helps people build confidence in the power of their voice.


TF Cohort 1

Salubata

At SALUBATA we make modular shoes from recycled plastic wastes thereby contributing to the decrease in the global carbon footprint. Our shoes are customizable, breathable and also available as NFTs!

TF Cohort 1

Jonda Health

30% of the world’s data is health data but it can’t be accessed for research. We are building a distributed collaborative network with data standardization AIs secured by zero knowledge encryption.

TF Cohort 1

Majik Water Technologies

Majik Water is a kenyan social entreprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through air to water technologies starting with the horn of Africa.

TF Cohort 1

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development company led by talented refugees and women. We are on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, with top quality affordable developers.


TF Cohort 1

Kleiderly

Kleiderly recycles textile waste into a recycled plastic using a patent pending technology, to reduce carbon emissions from the fashion industry.



TF Cohort 1

Biiah

Singing is good for wellbeing, community, health and is the strongest way to express a common emotion, so we designed Biiah, an app that helps people build confidence in the power of their voice.


TF Cohort 1

Salubata

At SALUBATA we make modular shoes from recycled plastic wastes thereby contributing to the decrease in the global carbon footprint. Our shoes are customizable, breathable and also available as NFTs!

TF Cohort 1

Jonda Health

30% of the world’s data is health data but it can’t be accessed for research. We are building a distributed collaborative network with data standardization AIs secured by zero knowledge encryption.

TF Cohort 1

Majik Water Technologies

Majik Water is a kenyan social entreprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through air to water technologies starting with the horn of Africa.

TF Cohort 1

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development company led by talented refugees and women. We are on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, with top quality affordable developers.


TF Cohort 1

Kleiderly

Kleiderly recycles textile waste into a recycled plastic using a patent pending technology, to reduce carbon emissions from the fashion industry.


TF Cohort 1

Salubata

At SALUBATA we make modular shoes from recycled plastic wastes thereby contributing to the decrease in the global carbon footprint. Our shoes are customizable, breathable and also available as NFTs!

TF Cohort 1

Biiah

Singing is good for wellbeing, community, health and is the strongest way to express a common emotion, so we designed Biiah, an app that helps people build confidence in the power of their voice.


TF Cohort 1

Jonda Health

30% of the world’s data is health data but it can’t be accessed for research. We are building a distributed collaborative network with data standardization AIs secured by zero knowledge encryption.


TF Cohort 1

Majik Water Technologies

Majik Water is a kenyan social entreprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through air to water technologies starting with the horn of Africa.

TF Cohort 1

CONCAT Tech LTD

CONCAT is the first web development company led by talented refugees and women. We are on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, with top quality affordable developers.


TF Cohort 1

Kleiderly

Kleiderly recycles textile waste into a recycled plastic using a patent pending technology, to reduce carbon emissions from the fashion industry.


TF Cohort 1

Biiah

Singing is good for wellbeing, community, health and is the strongest way to express a common emotion, so we designed Biiah, an app that helps people build confidence in the power of their voice.


TF Cohort 1

Salubata

At SALUBATA we make modular shoes from recycled plastic wastes thereby contributing to the decrease in the global carbon footprint. Our shoes are customizable, breathable and also available as NFTs!

TF Cohort 1

Jonda Health

30% of the world’s data is health data but it can’t be accessed for research. We are building a distributed collaborative network with data standardization AIs secured by zero knowledge encryption.

TF Cohort 1

Hear from our Founders Alumni

"…this mentorship and business training program has played a vital role in my success as an entrepreneur, and I am forever grateful for the experience."

Beth Koigi - Co-Founder

Majik Water

“TF Accelerator is definitely a program all female founders should be applying for, its a modern and forward thinking community of professionals who are all on a mission to change the world”

Laura Jardine Paterson - Founder

Concat Tech

“Thank you so much for the support of Thousand Faces and the program.”

Alina Bassi - Co-founder & CEO

Kleiderly

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