Let’s Woman Up
the Business!
We aim to expand female power in the European innovation ecosystem. Join a strong & confident community and bring your best ideas to the table!
Programme for startups
Unleash your potential as a female entrepreneur in the EU with our transformative 7-week online Womenture programme, kicking off on January 30th, 2024.
Who should apply?
We are looking for visionary female entrepreneurs from all over Europe who are currently in the idea generation phase. Regardless of your chosen industry, both solo entrepreneurs and teams are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity.
Join now and become part of a thriving community of diverse and committed female entrepreneurs!
until 30th November
Goals of Womenture project
Boosting female entrepreneurship through joint services and activities. With the Womenture project, innovation agencies and accelerators expand their ecosystem by generating new joint services and activities to boost female entrepreneurship in response to a Horizon Europe call. There are four partners in the consortium: DEX IC (Czech), SpinLab (Germany), Tehnopol (Estonia) and Design Terminal (Hungary).
Network
Establish networks between initiatives, startups, and innovation actors.
Business support programme
Create innovative business support services and inspire others to build new ones.
Knowledge sharing
Grow together with other incubators and accelerators.
For Ecosystem-Builders
Join us and grow together!
Partners
Become part of our global innovation network by connecting with startups, investors, mentors, and more. Gain visibility through our website, social media, and project communication to access research knowledge and potential startup collaborations.
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Ambassador
Cooperate and learn from each other and promote each other’s services. Join our efforts to facilitate business support services for female entrepreneurs! Let’s boost innovation and entrepreneurship together.
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Investor
We are looking for investors who are specifically interested in female-lead startups and would participate in shaping the future of promising companies. Stay tuned until our Joint Innovation Summit organised in 2024 November.
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Our Path Leaders
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About consortium partners
Design Terminal
Design Terminal is an international innovation agency focusing on entrepreneurial development. Creates value for different kinds of partners in the same way: identifying innovation challenges and look for the best people to solve them. Design Terminal looks for innovative solutions lying in optimistic communities. The programs leverage the power in personal connections and networks. In Womenture project takes a coordinator role.
Key Innovation programs
International
V4 Startup Force, Mentoring Program, CASSINILocal
ESA BIC Hungary, ESA Technology Broker, ESERO, NAK TechLabEU projects
AD4GD, X-Europe
12 countries
20+ corporations
100+ mentors
2000+ startups
DEX Innovation Centre
The mission of DEX IC is building startups and technological teams to bring impactful digital innovations to the market and become investable. Focuses on technological teams and early-stage start-ups to scale them up to make them investible. Developed an acceleration program used in DEX IC Accelerator, 4DigitalHealth Accelerator, Moldova Power Accelerator. Builds a unique network of Business Angels and VC funds, and operates an own co-investment network.
Supported more than 100 + startups, like Whalebone, Tesla Medical, Inocure or Pointee.
Key Innovation programs
V4 Startup Force
V4 InnoBooster
From Scientists to Innovators for Industry" SCI FI
CE-Connector - startups
€30.000.000 fundraised
1000+ students trained
100+ startups
50+ products
80+ mentors
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Tehnopol Science and Business Park owns the largest science park in the Baltics and supports state-of-art technology entrepreneurship in Estonia and help it expand to the world. Provides enterprises with both modern office spaces and top-notch counselling in developing businesses, capital raising. Provides services for startups (Tehnopol Startup Incubator), scale-ups and corporates (Innovation Leaders Club). The focus areas are green tech, health tech, gov-tech, space tech, smart city & mobility.
Key Innovation programs
Local
ESA BIC Estonia, Innovation Leaders Club, Accelerate Estonia, Accelerators (AI, health tech, cyber tech, green tech, NATO)Networks
EEN, IASP, Connected Health Cluster, Greentech ClusterEU Projects
Womenture, NBS Scale, Urban Tech, Green Tech 2.0, INGOs, SCALE-ABLE, Bridging4Growth, AIRE-EDIH
500+ startups finished the incubation program
27M € of pre-seed/seed capital involved
100+ mentors
SpinLab – The HHL Accelerator
SpinLab is a startup accelerator that supports the growth of entrepreneurial and innovative teams to scale up their businesses. SpinLab is proud of its no-nonsense approach and work hard every day to make sure that the participating startups get the necessary resources and guidance. Focuses on startups from fields of e-health, smart city and energy.
Key Innovation programs
Local
Smart Infrastructure Leipzig, de:hub, RootCamp, BITROAD, Smart Infrastructure Ventures, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of ManagementEU Projects
EDIH, EIT Urban Mobility, LHyVE (Leipzig, Hydrogen Value Chain for Europe), Womenture
Focus on energy, smart city and e-health startups
€ 160M total in startup investments
84 % survival rate of our startups
Top 5 European Accelerator “The Europas” Award
Project timeline
2023
Showcase the best practice among consortium partners
March
Kick-off meeting Budapest
May
Co-creation workshop Leipzig
August
Capacity building workshop Prague
Connections to other innovation hubs and enhance the engagement with ecosystem builders, public authorities and bring together stakeholders and female innovators.
October - November
Open call for the Pre-Acceleration Programme
2024
January - February
Pre-Acceleration Programme
March
Online inspirational event
May
Online inspirational event
July
Online inspirational event
September
Offline event: Joint Innovation Ecosystem Summit in Tallinn
November
Online inspirational event
July
Online inspirational event