Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Uganda Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Uganda Program 2025. The Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Uganda Program is a transformative initiative designed to empower girls-led, tech and tech-enabled companies. The program is an initiative of Standard Chartered Foundation in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank, Village Capital and The Innovation Village, and applied by Future Lab.

By putting girls on the forefront of technological innovation, this system helps bridge the gender hole in Uganda’s tech business, fostering inclusive financial development. More than simply an accelerator, it drives enterprise success, job creation, and financial resilience in marginalized communities.

The program equips girls entrepreneurs with enterprise coaching, mentorship, and seed funding, making a thriving ecosystem of girls-led companies that gas innovation, range, and financial improvement in Uganda.

Benefits

Through this initiative, they don’t seem to be solely investing in companies but in addition in the way forward for Africa’s digital economic system. 

• OPPORTUNITY to obtain as much as $10,000 catalytic grant to gas your enterprise development and influence.
• Gain arms-on technical help and funding readiness coaching tailor-made for girls-led, influence-pushed microbusinesses.
• Receive personalised teaching, optimize operational effectivity, and entry market linkages to develop your enterprise footprint.
• Strengthen your enterprise acumen in important areas reminiscent of enterprise, technique, influence, governance and expertise.
• Become part of an unique Community of Practice (CoP) designed to foster networking, peer studying, and ongoing mentorship.
• Be part of visionary entrepreneurs and refine your enterprise mannequin to draw buyers and safe funding.

Eligibility

The program seeks purposes from formidable, influence-pushed girls entrepreneurs who’re leveraging know-how to resolve actual-world issues.

To qualify for this system, candidates should meet the next standards:

• Women-led Business: At least one feminine co-founder actively concerned full-time.
• Registered in Uganda: Legally integrated and working in Uganda.
• Small-scale Business: The enterprise should make use of fewer than 10 individuals and have an annual turnover of lower than USD $100,000.
• Business Stage: The enterprise ought to be on the market validation part, having a minimal viable product (MVP) and a few type of validation—this might embrace income, person adoption, profitable pilots, or strategic partnerships.
• Tech Orientation: The enterprise have to be tech-primarily based or tech-enabled, utilizing digital innovation as a key driver of the enterprise mannequin.
• Impact Alignment: The enterprise should contribute towards a minimum of one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), together with however not restricted to first rate job creation, poverty discount, gender equality, local weather adaptation, or entry to important companies.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Futuremakers WiT Uganda Program.