Meet the 2022 Fellows

What?

Mentoring | Networking | Investors Connect

2022 Focus on Gender-Smart Techpreneurs

The ‘Fearless Founders’ Fellowship 2022 brings together gender-smart techpreneurs from around the world for an interactive and action-driven coaching experience and investment readiness program to navigate startup & scale-up finance. Fellows will be featured in a lookbook and connect with investors and the global ecosystem at the Future of Impact Summit 2022.

Who?

For the 2022 program focusing on gender-smart techpreneurs, the following criteria apply:

• Gender-smart startups: ventures with a female founder and/or strong representation of women in the team and/or a credible gender lens in product design

• Tech and tech-enabled startups solving a social challenge

• Zebras and unicorns

• Seeking to raise a seed to Series B round

• All regions

• Entrepreneurial drive and commitment to peer learning in a global

Fellowship Highlights

The fellowship and investment readiness program is structured around the following key themes:

• Gender-Smart Techpreneurs: from unicorns to zebras - positioning your startup in the ecosystem

• Scale-up journey linked to your type of company and suitable sources of capital

• Investor mindset: understanding different types of capital and investors/capital provider. Which type of capital provider is the best fit when?

• Gender-smart businesses: deep dive into the gender & diversity business and impact case, gender lens investing, 2X criteria, impact management & measurement tools

• Relationship building with investors, pitch, valuation, terms & negotiation

• Pitch deck & training

• Pitch Sessions & Investor Connect at the global Future of Impact Summit 2022

Partners 2022