28 women entrepreneurs from Delhi, Agra and Gurugram empowered through 91Springboard and Google for Startups ‘Level Up’ program
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Delhi, March 2023: 91Springboard, one among India’s main coworking communities in partnership with Google for Startups (GfS) chosen 28 women entrepreneurs from Delhi (18), Agra(2), and Gurugram(8) for the primary Cohort of their ‘Level Up’ program. This is a national digital accelerator program that permits women entrepreneurs to fund their startups and develop their companies. These women entrepreneurs run tech companies within the fields of retail, attire, pet care, healthcare, and different industries. They have had the advantage of receiving steering and mentorship from a number of the greatest trade specialists, which can assist them scale up their companies and set up their manufacturers as outstanding gamers within the Indian startup ecosystem.
The ‘Level Up Program’ is aimed toward providing insights and steering from achieved mentors from Google and different main companies to women-led startups. The mentors acted as sounding boards, and labored with the women founders on their challenges and to work out methods to scale their enterprise from X to 10X. 71 mentors offered masterclasses, peer meetups, instruments, and experience for three months to construct and scale their companies. Cohort 1 was began in August 2022 when 183 women entrepreneurs had been shortlisted from over 366 functions and will conclude now on February 25. Through the course of the program, 200+ hours had been spent on mentoring the founders with 12+ hours in formal networking. The peer meetups had been held at 91 Springboard hubs throughout India.
Anand Vemuri, the CEO, 91Springboard, stated: “Lately, we’ve got witnessed a surge of women entrepreneurs turning into self-reliant and unbiased. It is nice that our authorities is supporting them and we at 91Springboard are doing our bit. 91Springboard believes in nurturing progress through studying alternatives. This collaboration with GfS for Level Up will increase the arrogance of the founders and help them of their journey. We have acquired an amazing response from tier I in addition to from tier II cities which is a step nearer to bridging the hole for our women founders and their imaginative and prescient for a better residing.”
Nicole Yap, Partnership Manager, at Google for Startups, added: “It is our abiding perception at Google that to construct universally related and useful options, the businesses and ecosystems constructing this must be totally inclusive and numerous. Women founders nonetheless comprise a really small fraction of the general pie and we expect packages that facilitate and allow this illustration are very well timed and extremely essential. We are happy to collaborate with 91Springboard for this. Through our packages, we want to attain bigger audiences and improve homegrown companies.”
Owing to the constructive response acquired for Cohort 1, Cohort 2 of the Level Up program will begin in March and proceed until July 2023. Women entrepreneurs wishing to take part within the ‘Level Up’ program can register right here: Cohort II Application type.
Women entrepreneurs have been integral to the Indian financial system’s transformational journey. While there was gradual momentum when it comes to women founders initially, India has witnessed an upsurge in women establishing profitable companies during the last couple of years. Therefore, supporting them results in a greater and extra dynamic entrepreneurship setting, creates jobs, and imparts new views to companies.
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