Village Capital/Standard Chartered Foundation US Women in Tech Accelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Village Capital/Standard Chartered Foundation US Women in Tech Accelerator 2026. The US Women in Tech Accelerator, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Foundation, was designed to empower 10-12 girls-led, impression-creating, tech-enabled startups to scale their options, create jobs, and drive financial mobility nationwide.

Despite rising consciousness of the funding hole for girls founders, all-girls founding groups have acquired a median of solely 2.4% of enterprise capital funding over the previous 30 years, highlighting boundaries to innovation, financial progress, and equitable entry to assets. The 2026 US Women in Tech Accelerator is designed to assist deal with these gaps by supporting early-stage founders as they strengthen their companies and put together for progress.

Benefits

• Financial Analysis: Access to 1:1 teaching with an funding analyst targeted on constructing a monetary mannequin and monetary narratives.
• grant Capital: Two (2) startups might be chosen by their friends to obtain USD 25K in grant capital to additional scale their options.
• Mentorship and Networking: Engage in alternatives to community and obtain mentorship from traders, strategic companions, founders, and enterprise leaders.
• Milestone Development Plan: Create a personalised milestone improvement plan for funding readiness, progress, and impression, utilizing VilCap’s on-line milestone-monitoring software.
• Peer-to-Peer Learning and Evaluation: Access to Village Capital’s signature strategy to shifting energy dynamics in funding choices by inserting entrepreneurs on the heart of the due diligence course of.

Eligibility

Eligible startups should: 

• Be a legally registered, US-based, for-revenue enterprise with fewer than ten staff.
• Be led by at the very least one full-time founder who identifies as a lady, together with cisgender, transgender, and non-binary people.
• Be income-producing with lower than USD 100K in annual income.
• Have significant buyer or enterprise validation (not restricted to income; it can be profitable pilot research, variety of customers, and/or strategic partnerships).
• Have a minimal viable product (MVP) and raised lower than USD 1.5M in fairness.
• Be tech-primarily based or tech-enabled and deal with one financial mobility and/or entry to important providers in the next areas:
  • Increase entry to inexpensive, excessive-high quality healthcare, wellness assets, and important medicines.
  • Equip and join care employees to offer increased-high quality care and improve entry to care. 
  • Amplify and strengthen group-built-in options.
  • Create improvements in training that develop entry and improve high quality.
  • Broaden accessibility to important providers for marginalized and beneath-resourced communities.
  • Reduce boundaries to employment and profession development by creating new pathways, providing coaching and upskilling alternatives, and constructing skilled networks.
  • Empower people, households, and underserved communities to extend monetary literacy, construct monetary resilience, and lengthy-time period stability by enhancing entry to important monetary providers. 
  • Advance financial mobility for low-revenue or different underserved communities by constructing generational wealth by way of profession development, home possession, and/or financial savings and funding alternatives. 
  • Create entry to important providers that unlock financial OPPORTUNITY.

Application

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For extra data, go to US Women in Tech Accelerator.