The “Helsinki Female Tech Founder Frontrunner” programme has been officially launched at Slush 2021 in Helsinki, Finland and will start in early 2022 with the aim to help and support aspiring female entrepreneurs launch, grow and scale tech startups.
The City of Helsinki and Tech Nordic Advocates joined forces with some global partners,including NewCo Helsinki, Helsinki Partners, Magnusson, London Stock Exchange, KPMG and Global Tech Advocates to tackle the challenges women face in founding a tech startup.
The programme will initially run for two years and focus on helping aspiring female tech entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses offering one-to-one mentoring, professional advice and skills development from Finnish and global experts as well as access to relevant networks, events and capital.
The programme will help 120 highly motivated women in the digital/tech space to launch and grow their tech businesses, through a proven international 5 Step-Programme and it is focused on Helsinki/Finland based startups and the applicants must commit to 6 months part-time agenda, completing the programme dedicating to solving a problem using innovative technology, and committed to launching/growing/scaling a startup.
“Helsinki Female Tech Founder Frontrunner”
“Helsinki Female Tech Founder Frontrunner” programme aims to help 60 women in 2022and another 60 women in 2023 with hands-on mentoring, skills development, access to Finnish and international business, legal, financial, technical, leadership, communication and other experts, access to the network and Tech Nordic Advocates ecosystem including tech leaders, investors, experts and partners.
Who can apply to join the programme?
Highly motivated women with a great tech business idea and/or existing female tech founders who need support to grow/scale their business. The programme focus on:
1 . Pre-startup (Group 1): Women in employment/finishing university/not currently working/have lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus pandemic, who are considering launching a tech startup and need support from female peers, role models and mentors to get started
2. Startup founders/leaders (Group 2): female tech founders who need support, knowledge/experience share, new skills, guidance and advice from peers, mentors, investors and professional advisors to grow their businesses
3. Scaleup founders/leaders (Group 3): The same needs as Group 2 AND need to build international networks and support to expand in international markets.
Why an International Mentoring Programme?
Helsinki and Finland aim to sustain its leadership position as international tech innovation frontrunners. To achieve that, Helsinki/Finland need to use all its talent. However, few women choose to launch businesses in high growth, high-risk sectors such as tech. So the City of Helsinki and its partners have commissioned Tech Nordic Advocates to deliver our successful international mentoring programme, to help them achieve that goal. At the end of the programme, mentees will produce an executable business/growth plan to launch/grow/scale a tech startup. The Programme is set up to give mentees the support they need to achieve that.
Jeanette Carlsson Founder & CEO of Tech Nordic Advocates
”We have created more women tech entrepreneurs and helped stimulate the growth of existing tech businesses led by women, enabled access to international markets and capital to the tune of€1.5 million. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, which shows what can be achieved with the right support. Helsinki and Finland have huge unexploited female potential. We need those women for sustained innovation, competitiveness, growth, jobs and equality in tech, business and society as a whole.”
“Helsinki Female Tech FounderFrontrunner” launch at Slush 2021 International Mentoring Programme launches in Helsinki, Finland in 2022.
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About Tech Nordic Advocates
Tech Nordic Advocates (TNA) is Northern Europe’slargest – and only pan-Nordic/Baltic (not-for-profit) –tech/startup ecosystem of founders, startups, scaleups, investors, mentors, incubators, accelerators, corporates, universities and public sector organisations, working together to stimulate Nordic/Baltic digital/tech startup, scaleup and sector growth.
Tech Nordic Advocates is the Nordic/Baltic sibling of Tech London Advocates, the engine behind London’s tech hub, and Nordic/Baltic arm of Global Tech Advocates, the world's only global tech community of over 20,000 tech leaders across 22 global tech hubs from Silicon Valley to Europe, China, India, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
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