Introduction to Startups Webinar
Startup Onramp is offering a free webinar for Queensland women interested in starting a high-growth business at 4pm on Tuesday 21 March 2024.
Startup Onramp Female Founders Program
This program has four key components (applications are now closed):
- mentoring from experienced founders and investors on any aspect of your startup or startup idea
- startup skills development in essential concepts and best practice in your own time
- the Female Founders Pre-Accelerator, an eight-week part-time virtual incubator for female founders ready to launch and grow their startup
- and individual advice and guidance on preparing to raise capital.
Who should apply?
Female founders anywhere in Queensland, working in any sector and building innovative products or services who are tackling national or global markets.
More information
Contact: Colin Kinner
Phone: 0411 122 976
Email: colin@startuponramp.com
Website: https://www.startuponramp.com/femalefounders
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Register for the free Webinar on 21 March 2024 at 4pm (via Zoom)
The following are now closed for applications:
Founder Mentoring
Founders Course
Female Founders Pre-Accelerator
Investment Readiness Coaching
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Grow National – a Food and Beverage Accelerator Program
This two stream program offers support and resources to help businesses thrive and grow, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation within the local and wider food and beverage industry
Seed to Sprout: a one day workshop for food and agribusiness start-ups looking to turn their fledgling businesses into viable operations and established businesses wanting to ensure their fundamental food business basics are covered.
Ready and Ripe: a 10 week intensive program for established businesses looking to scale their distribution, production and market access beyond their current operations.
Who should apply?
Food, beverage and agri businesses in the start up and scale up journey. Businesses should ideally be located in the Greater Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and wider South East Queensland region. The ideal cohort members are open to collaboration, innovation, and actively contribute to nurturing a vibrant and interconnected food and beverage ecosystem.
More information
Contact: Rebecca Gillingham
Phone: 0419 651 157
Email: info@foodagribusiness.org.au
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Applications open:
September 2023
Applications close:
January 2024
Seed to Sprout Boot Camp runs: March 2024
Ripe and Ready runs:
February - July 2024
APPLY NOW
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Female Founders Fast-track: Elevating Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Female Founders by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Innovative Growth Strategies
This program, executed through the Women in Rural, Regional and Remote Entrepreneurship (WiRE) Program will elevate innovative Rural, Regional and Remote (RRR) Queensland founders by helping them to discover, understand and use innovative business growth strategies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.
This will be achieved by offering participants a personalised transformative business growth experience to more effectively: identify new opportunities; innovate their products and services; expand their reach and acquire more customers; improve their business systems and efficiency to level-up their sales; become part of an incredible network of female founders; access new resources, expertise, and prepare for funding opportunities; and make the most of innovative business strategies and Artificial Intelligence tools.
Who should apply?
Female founders in rural, regional, or remote Queensland who wish to start, grow or scale their innovative ideas, products, services and businesses. The program aims to support various industries, especially in tourism and agriculture. Migrant and refugee female founders are encouraged to participate in advancing their inclusion in the Queensland innovation ecosystem.
More information
Contact: Retha Weisner
Phone: 07 3470 4519
Email: wiresupport@wireprogram.com
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Applications open:
APPLY NOW
Applications close:
25 January 2024
Program runs:
September 2023 – June 2024
Participants who may have missed any of the events will have access to the recordings of sessions they have missed.
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Launch Y(E)P Incubate & Launch Y(E)P Accelerate
Launch Y(E)P Incubate has now been delivered to two cohorts. Launch Y(E)P Incubate was designed to launch entrepreneurship projects into the innovation space. The incubate program was for early-stage ideas that could be new businesses, or new ideas to make an existing business more innovative and/or scalable.
Launch Y(E)P Accelerate is a business growth program in Far North Queensland which will run over 12 weeks. The program will be delivered online and with meetups throughout Queensland with the inclusion of a Gold Pass at the week-long Tropical Innovation Festival in June 2024.
The program is offered to two streams of applicants:
Tech-oriented businesses to scale through new customer acquisition, new market entries or new investment; or,
Innovation-ecosystem leaders to accelerate their strategic thinking and program design, connections and collaborations/partnerships.
Who should apply for the 12-week Accelerate Program?
Launch Y(E)P is regionally focussed. The majority of founders / ecosystem leaders will live and work regionally, with in-person involvement located in Cairns. Non-regional participants must have either personal factors that limit involvement in other accelerators and incubators or offer products/services that help people living in regional Queensland live happier, healthier and/or wealthier lives.
Recent initiative to support female founders:
Launch (YEP) also recently delivered the Launch Y(E)P Intensive one-day program on 12 March 2024. This one-day program worked with participants to explore, unlock and clarify innovative ideas.
More information
Contact: Kate Montgomery
Phone: 0431 911 721
Email: kate@launchyep.com
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Applications open for 12-week Accelerate Program:
APPLY NOW
Applications close:
8 April 2024
Program runs:
29 April–19 July 2024
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Plus Eight Female Founder Program
This program is a comprehensive initiative to foster growth in the startup and technology industry by empowering local talent with the necessary skills to address the growing skills shortage.
Over six weeks, participants engage in intensive sessions outside business hours, focusing on vital topics such as building an MVP, refining business models, testing pricing strategies, and growing marketing. The program provides practical tools, community support, and access to a vast network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and industry experts. Participants will also be able to access a workspace in the AI Hub until December 2023.
More information
Contact: Ophelie Cutier
Phone: 0861 020 225
Email: ophelie@spacecubed.com
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Cohort 1 Applications closed:
28 August 2023
Cohort 1 Program ran:
16 September – 11 October 2023
(5-week program)
Cohort 2 Applications open: 14 December 2023 and close 1 February 2024
Cohort 2 Program running:21 February – 20 March 2024 (5-week program)
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Elevating Female Founders Program
This program provides a heavy focus on building connections within the cohort as well as the wider ecosystem, by meeting female founders where they are in their journey and applying a range of bespoke 1:1 industry-specific, challenge-specific advice as well as cohort-based activities moving businesses to the next stage, whether from problem statement to idea or from one customer to 10.
There were a large number of applications for this program, but the final cohort of 20 companies has now been finalised. This was following the online information session by program mentors Pauline Fetaui, Australian Computer Society, and Rebecca Dredge, Women in Digital 2023 Innovator of the Year and CEO and Founder of Kiddo. A panel discussion followed, which included Claire Bull, Rainmaking APAC, and Pauline Fetaui.
More information
Phone: 07 3316 5777
Email: info@rivercitylabs.net
Website: https://rivercitylabs.acs.org.au/
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Applications closed
Program runs:
1 December 2023 – June 2024
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Change the Ratio: Bridging the Gender Gap in Sportstech
This program strives to increase the success of female founded sportstech businesses in Queensland, by connecting female founders with national sportstech peers and an international network to systematically explore entrepreneurial foundations.
The Australian Sports Technologies Network has partnered with US-based organisation Women in Sports Tech (WiST) to provide specialised programs, events and activities for women in sportstech, including pre-accelerator, mentorship, webinars, masterclasses and education workshops, aimed at increasing the diversity and innovation capability in the sector.
The ASTN completed their Pre-Accelerator course with their core group of six female founders on 23 November 2023. The feedback from these female founders has been fantastic and ATSN are excited to continue working with this group of female founders who will continue to participate in group mentoring sessions with their US-based partners, Women in Sports Tech (WiST) throughout the first half of 2024.
ATSN’s second phase of the program is commencing, with more female founders joining their group for their Masterclass Series. The first event is on 29 November 2023, with three more Masterclasses planned for the first half of 2024.
More information
Contact: Amy Crosland
Phone: 0450 725 552
Email: amy.crosland@astn.com.au
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Applications closed
Program runs:
July 2023 - June 2024
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iActivate: Regional Female Founder Accelerator
Curated by women who are experts across the social impact sector, the program will give participants clear and actionable steps for defining goals and intended outcomes, understanding business-for-good ecosystems, applying sustainable and innovative business models, prototyping for-purpose startups, storytelling, collaborating, scaling and measuring impact.
The 14-week online program will support up to 24 regional Queensland female founders to grow their impact. Sector experts will facilitate weekly workshops and knowledge sharing sessions, and participants will flexibly work through iActivate’s online modules to deepen learning.
More information
Email: socialinnovation@cqu.edu.au
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Applications closed:
1 August 2023
Program runs:
5 September – 8 December 2023
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Female Founders Forward Accelerator Program (FFFWD)
This program is a comprehensive business development, education and training program like no other and wraps female founders and leaders with the support they need to succeed. FFFWD is a locally based, yet globally focussed program providing world-class training and materials, access to the best mentors, exposure and game-changing opportunities to take purpose-driven, innovative enterprises to the next level. More program details, including information on the 13 inspiring purpose led businesses is available on the Impact Boom website.
More information
Contact: Sarah Ripper
Phone: 0409 059 687
Email: sarah@impactboom.org
Website: https://www.impactboom.org
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Applications closed:
1 August 2023
Program runs:
21 August - 13 December 2023
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Business and Technology Accelerator Roadmap Development Program for Female Founders (Accelerating Female Founders)
This program provided six female founders with expert technical and business advice and tools to accelerate the development of their technology or product. They developed a roadmap to become investment ready and well-positioned to apply for grant funding. The technology expertise ARM Hub offers included artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, robotics, and automation. More details on the fantastic women who participated in this program can be found on the ARM Hub website.
More information
Contact: Angela Reed
Phone: 0430 197 158
Email: angela.reed@armhub.com.au
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Applications closed:
15 August 2023
Program delivered:
July – September 2023
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Boosting Business Innovation Masterclass
This two-day workshop, plus Business Advisory Service, supported women in existing businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups across all industries to investigate, build, or transform their business model for growth. The workshop gave businesses an understanding of how to reimagine the future of their business, using modern tools and design practices to innovate or invent their business model in a structured way.
Focused on embedding long-term capabilities in the business, participants worked on real-world solutions guided by facilitators and expert mentors. On completion of the workshop, participants were provided one-on-one Business Advisory Services to develop their idea further and assist in completing a 12-month Growth Roadmap.
More information
Contact: Tanya Egerton
Phone: 0482 568 100
Email: tanya@circulanation.org
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Applications closed:
15 September 2023
Masterclass delivered:
26 – 27 October 2023
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