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Globally, there is a lot of push around gender diversity and inclusion – across Governments, Management Boards and Entrepreneurship. As a small step towards the above, empoWer is an initiative by Zone Startups India, for supporting women entrepreneurs.

Over the past 5 years, 132 women entrepreneurs have been a part of 5 cohorts, and 3 bootcamp. Each cohort is a 12 modules accelerator program comprising 15 women entrepreneurs selected from a pan-India application pool. We have disbursed INR 3.4 Crores in grants, and post program, a large majority of startups have raised further funding amounting a cumulative of INR 88.5 Crores..

The 5th Edition was launched in Partnership with TiE Women a part of TiE Global; we supported 14 women entrepreneurs through the Accelerator program & an additional 39 women entrepreneurs through a Workshop.

  • Peer Community

    A platform to interact with like minded peers and build your network with fellow entrepreneurs.

     

  • Industry Connect

    Interact one to one with all major corporate CIOs/ CXOs to explore business development opportunities.

     

  • Mentorship

    Workshops, Sessions, Case Studies and One on One Mentoring by subject matter experts

     

  • Funding Access

    Seed funds, investor connects, access to other value added resources & professional services to help our portfolio scale up fast.

     

Industry Sponsor

 
 

Supporting Sponsor

 
 

Our Journey so far

3307

Applications Received

 

132

Startups in the Portfolio

 

450+

Mentors

 

88.5 Crores

Funding Raised by the portfolio

 

3.4+ Crores

Takeaways worth disbursed