Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Collegiate Accelerator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Applications are open for the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Collegiate Accelerator 2025. The WBENC Collegiate Accelerator (CA) is a multifaceted, cohort-primarily based, entrepreneurial program targeted on the development of collegiate feminine founders.

Accepted pupil founders will discover ways to navigate development for early-stage ventures via focused curriculum, customized mentorship, peer to look connections, and publicity to a community of 5,500+ ladies enterprise house owners, procurement professionals, and associate organizations on the 2025 WBENC National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Program Details

Collegiate feminine entrepreneurs (or current graduates) accepted into the 2025 CA cohort will take part in a hybrid, development-primarily based accelerator designed to information rising ladies enterprise house owners via their startup part. The Collegiate Accelerator consists of entry to tailor-made academic curriculum, in addition to participation within the CA Mentorship Program, connecting pupil entrepreneurs with seasoned ladies-owned companies alongside mentors from main Corporations in a 2:1 mentorship mannequin.

The CA cohort will attend the in-particular person 2025 WBENC National Conference, referred to as the most important occasion of its type for girls enterprise house owners, in New Orleans, LA. While on the WBENC National Conference, cohort members will take part within the unique Collegiate Accelerator Pitch Competition, awarding micro seed capital grants to prime pitch performances, and gaining worthwhile model publicity from greater than 5,000 attendees.

Benefits

• Through the help of WBENC Collegiate Accelerator Corporate sponsors, all journey, lodging, and registration bills can be coated for the CA cohort contributors to attend the 2025 WBENC National Conference together with a offered stipend for F&B and incidentals.

Eligibility

• Applicant have to be enrolled full-time or part-time in a acknowledged College or University, or has graduated throughout the previous 12 months (as of Dec 2023).
• Applicant have to be an proprietor, founder, or controlling shareholder of the collaborating enterprise enterprise; (1) feminine founder per enterprise can be accepted.
• Applicant’s enterprise enterprise should have been in operation for a minimum of six (6) months, however doesn’t need to be income producing.
• Applicant should decide to attend all Collegiate Accelerator program dates together with the digital and in-particular person session dates listed, with the intention to be thought of for this system. Inability to attend and take part in all the program will end in ineligibility.

Application

The application deadline is Monday, February 17, 2025 at 11:59pm ET.

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For extra info, go to WBENC Collegiate Accelerator.