The female founder programme at SheStarts Africa is designed to support women who are co-founding or founding a business in Africa.
The programme will help entrepreneurs who want to see significant growth in their businesses as they move them to the next level.
Additionally, it will help female founders develop an entrepreneurial mindset, pick up the required skills, understand the market, broaden their reach, and deliver an investor pitch.
The program’s objective is to offer complete support to African female founders as they start their businesses. By focusing on the use of experiments to accelerate growth, utilising lean and agile methodologies, and offering a safe environment for failure and learning within three months, it achieves this.
Online portals available to participants
- Female founder portal
- Here participants will get access to the timeline, sessions, and resources
- Intrapreneurship
- This portal mostly related to innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship, will allow businesses to subscribe to training and mentorship sessions for a group of their female employees.
- Community Portal
- This portal will allow community members to interact with each other, write articles, ask for support, or request calls with our community experts.
- Freemium portal
- This portal houses all resources, opportunities, and videos free and available for all.
Target audience
The targets are female founders of startups or SMEs based in the continent of Africa who:
- Age range: Are aged between 25-40 because globally, younger women (ages 25-44) had the highest entrepreneurial participation rates.
- Degree: No pacific background but at least 3 years of university.
- Activity: Operate in the African continent in any industry.
- Market share: Founders who must have made an initial revenue with their product/service that is already on the market.
- Level of growth: Founders with insufficient cash flow that does not correspond to the rate of growth and anticipated revenues. In order to address current market challenges and improve the entity’s positioning, more tools and resources are thus needed.
- Requires Founders: This is for startup founders who are unable to lead and manage the organisation or whose management team is underqualified and would like to outsource some of the work.
