Today, April 28, 2022, is Girls’ Day, the Future Day for Girls. It is a day on which girls can discover new professions that, due to the status quo, are still often considered male-dominated fields, such as computer science, industrial mechanics, or skilled trades.
When it comes to #founding and #investing, women are also underrepresented. The share of women founding startups is still below 20%!
And that’s where we come in.
We at Startup Incubator Berlin support the Girls’Day – Mädchen-Zukunftstag campaign by aiming to have at least 50% women in our #Startup teams. To that end, we asked our #femalefounders what they have to say about founding a company and what advice they would give their younger selves.
Thank you for your insights, Sara Foster and Amrei Ram from Sittery, Evoléna de Wilde d’Estmael 🌱 from Faircado, Jessica Biastoch and Sarah Gràinne Jankowsky from Brea Health GmbH , Tina Weise from Trueffles, Christina Kunz from RückMal.
The Berlin School of Economics and Law also wants to introduce entrepreneurship as a career path at an early stage. That is why various workshops are taking place today. For example, 8 girls are developing a business idea on the topic of “The School of the Future.” A very important topic! We are very excited to see what comes out of it.
Internally as well, we are committed to fostering more female-led ventures. Currently, 50% of our founders are women. In addition, our Marketing and PR Manager Cindy is dedicated to increasing the visibility of women through her platform The Bold Woman.
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The Startup Incubator of HWR Berlin
In the Startup Incubator of HWR Berlin, founding ideas are developed to market readiness. To this end, we support academic founding teams with know-how, infrastructure, and scholarships. We create a shared platform for entrepreneurial thinking and action (mindset) together with the Berlin business community (including Siemens AG). As a lean incubator, we focus on speed in developing and validating business models with customers.
Since 2016, the Startup Incubator Berlin has been supporting founding teams with the Berlin Startup Scholarship, and now also with the REACT Startup Scholarship. More than 30 startups have benefited from this financial and non-financial support, combined with the infrastructure provided by the HWR Berlin entrepreneurship center, to successfully develop their business ideas and products. Well-known startups such as Wonder, Forget Finance, SunCrafter, and startupdetector are successfully active in the market today. Forget Finance recently closed a seed funding round of €3.8 million.
About the Scholarships
