Accelerator program for ambitious female tech founders
It is well documented that gender equality leads to more innovation and profitability, but women are still underrepresented in tech. If we want this to change we need to take action.
We believe that gender equality is not only for women! We are for everyone who believes that we create better results and returns by focussing on diversity and embracing equality. Let’s change the narrative about gender equality!
We encourage all tech startups with min. 1 female founder who are interested in scaling to apply to our FREE growth accelerator program. We select the 15 most promising growth cases to participate in the program and become a part of our exclusive network.
We have gathered the leading Danish and international experts, mentors, advisors and investors in order to support your growth journey with concrete, hands-on and personalized know-how.
We are collaborating with the leading players and stakeholders in the ecosystem, including DTU, Google, Vækstfonden, Startupbootcamp, KMD, Nordea Startup & Growth and many others.
We have also gathered the leading investors and tech VC’s in Europe, so you will get access to a large pan European investor network and get direct exposure to investors at Partner level. Gaining funding is often key to scaling a tech startup, but it can be challenging and time consuming to get access to leading investors. We have secured that access and will be facilitating one on one meetings, events and Demo day where you will get to pitch to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
We select 15 female founded and mixed startup teams per program
The 12 weeks scale up program adapted to work-life-balance, is a combination of online and MasterClasses with leading Danish and international experts
The program finishes with a demo day where you meet our Danish and international investor network
Ann-Christine Roope
Co-Founder & Partner
Joo Runge
Co-Founder & Partner
We are a team of passionate, ambitious and committed experts united by a common mission: to increase inclusiveness in the tech ecosystem and showcase that investing in female founded companies is a good investment
Ann-Christine Roope is the Founder of Ethan Partners a global Executive Search firm with a focus on C-, VP- and Director-level positions and Board Members for high growth companies in the Digital space. The firm has supported +150 companies in +50 countries. Ann-Christine previously worked for Rocket Internet as Global Director of Recruiting scaling 75 portfolio companies in 50 countries. Including global rollouts of Groupon, Zalando, HelloFresh, Glossybox, FoodPanda etc. Supported leading international investors with recruiting, due diligence and deal flow
Joo Runge has a background as an M&A and finance lawyer from well-known law firms but has since 2013 worked as board member and CEO for different high level companies in the Nordic. In 2016 Joo Runge founded Black Panther Consulting, a company working with growth, funding and debt finance to startups and funds benefiting from Joo Runge’s huge network of startups, experts and investors in Europe. Joo Runge also holds various positions as board member and is the founder of Women in Tech Switzerland
Here are some of the amazing partners we have teamed up with in the European startup ecosystem
Based on 10 years of investments in nearly 300 companies. The analysis of the portfolio indicated that startups with at least one female founder did on average 63% better than startups founded by only men – First Round
Female founded companies generated on average 45% more revenue per euro invested than their male counterparts – Slush
For every dollar raised, female-led startups generated 78 cents in revenue, and male-led startups generated 31 cents in revenue. – BCG’s analysis of 350 companies that went through the MassChallenge program
Show that you support the female entrepreneur ecosystem
Get first access to scalable investment cases with international potential
Access to new technology and the possibility to co-operate with our scale up companies
Access to a large European startup network through our online platform
Show that you support the female entrepreneur ecosystem