First batch of the Empowered Women’s Accelerator revealed by UQ Ventures
- Business
- September 25, 2023
A College of Queensland (UQ) startup program, which to date has helped organizers who have proceeded to bring $140 million up in financing with more than $3 billion in valuations, has declared the main companion of a gas pedal for greater part female-claimed beginning phase new businesses.
The UQ Adventures debut Adventures Engage Ladies’ Gas pedal has granted six groups incorporating 14 originators with $10,000 in value free subsidizing, with startup ideas going from decomposable bundling to science training e-figuring out how to cold-blend tea.
Rebecca Wilson, a fruitful business visionary who established the retirement startup Starts at 60, has joined the program as the business visionary in home and will support, coach, and guide the pioneers as they explore their beginning phase new companies to showcase. The gas pedal will come full circle in a contribute occasion November.
“I am genuinely excited to collaborate with the inaugural cohort of Empower, nurturing and fostering this dynamic team of women founders,” Wilson said.
“Each of their businesses is poised to tackle exciting areas with significant growth potential.
“The profound influence that The University of Queensland Ventures team and our expansive network of supporters can offer these founders is truly impactful — guiding and supporting them as they shape the businesses of tomorrow.”
Program lead Beth Lawrance said it was invigorating to have such an imaginative and various gathering of originators to launch the debut program.
“It is a privilege to work with these founders on problems they are passionate about solving and to see their week-on-week growth,” she said.
“The response and support we have received from the broader ecosystem with incredible leaders and founders sharing their expertise with the cohort as guest speakers has been amazing.”
The drive expands upon UQ Adventures insight in conveying ilab, perhaps of Australia’s most capable gas pedal that the college took over from the Queensland Government in 2012, and LeadHers, a certainty and initiative program for ladies.
Rocket motor startup Herik Labs won both the Adjudicator’s and Individuals’ Decision grants at the UQ Adventures yearly ilab Gas pedal Contribute Night Walk, following Obscuration last year which is using the mastery of the CSIRO to market a manufactured rendition of lactoferrin, a resistant supporting protein found in bosom milk that is seldom remembered for child recipe.
Other outstanding alumni incorporate hearing tech organization Audeara (ASX: AUA), sending robotization programming bunch Octopus Convey, and stomach microbiome life sciences organization Microba (ASX: MAP). Andrew Barnes, prime supporter of Go1, additionally went through the gas pedal with one more startup prior to beginning the edtech unicorn to-be.
Meet the Enable Ladies’ Gas pedal partner
OzCeutics – Nature-determined antimicrobials to treat human and creature dermatitis.
Zyta Ziora
Conny Turni
Preeti Pandey
East Fashioned – Cold-brew tea refreshments bringing tea into new friendly spaces.
Kym Cooper
Tania Stacey
La Foundary – Decomposable bundling produced using waste materials with the force of mycelium.
Anh Van
David Ocean
Hiu Tek (Tune) Wu
Shikhar Jung Shahi Thakuri
Dialogic Schooling Administrations – Online expert learning in science training.
Dr Charlotte Pezaro
Natalie McKirdy
Ranch Legend – An application associating ranchers with specialist organizations of agrarian hardware in Cambodia.
Sorkunthika Srour
Vikram Fidolin Anandharaja
Youthful Stripes – STEM programs for Kenyan school understudies tending to instructive disparities.
Hemanshi Galaiya