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Resources for Female Founders

The team at Startup Atlanta has curated the following list of resources that support female founders.
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Resource Organization

ACE Women's Business Center

The mission for the ACE Women's Business Center is to empower women, minorities, and low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs.

Funding

Access TiE Atlanta

ACCESS is an entrepreneurship program launched by TiE Atlanta Angels to close the mentoring and funding gap between women- and minority-owned businesses.

Resource Organization

Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE)

ACE is the largest small business-focused community development loan fund in Georgia. ACE provides loan capital from $15,000 to $1,000,000 and business development resources to help its borrowers create and grow sustainable businesses which generate jobs.

Program

Agnes Scott's Social Innovation Program

Through the Master of Arts program in Social Innovation students are prepared to launch a social venture or to secure a management position within for-profit, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Funding

EnrichHER

EnrichHER connects pre-qualified companies led by women and founders of color to capital, coaching, and community so they can take their businesses to new heights.

Funding

Fearless Fund

Fearless Fund invests in women of color led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color.

Resource Organization

Greater Women's Business Council

The Greater Women's Business Council, is a nonprofit Women's Business Organization. Regions includes Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Accelerators & Incubators

Launchpad 2X

Launchpad2X is headquartered in Atlanta and was the first of its kind as an accelerator for women nearly a decade ago. Our mission is to equip selected Founders with the skills, tools, and training to break through from Founder to CEO and ignite business growth through funding, learning, operational support, and research.

Resource Organization

SE Women Investor Database

An airtable database of southeastern US female investors that you can explore.

Program

Spelman College Center for Innovation and the Arts

The center is the home for Spelman’s Innovation Lab and houses all of Spelman’s arts disciplines; and provide a “front porch” for the community. The facility clusters together Spelman's numerous arts departments into a vibrant community of innovators, collaborators, artists, musicians and scientists.

Funding

The Jump Fund

The Jump Fund is an all women investment group investing only in women-led ventures in the Southeastern United States.

Places

The Lola

The Lola is an Atlanta based womxn’s club, workspace and digital platform.

Program

VC Worthy Business

VC Worthy Business helps female entrepreneurs develop an attention-grabbing pitch to achieve investor capital.

Resource Organization

WEOP

An award winning non-profit that furthers the economic growth of women, with a focus on women of color. Their work is focused on actions that empower women through teaching skills while providing information and resources. Membership costs $100/year and $75 to renew.

Events

WICERS Atlanta

Annual conference dedicated to the advancement of women in underrepresented industries.

Resource Organization

Women in Technology

WIT's mission is to serve as passionate advocates for women of all ages in Georgia's STEAM community. WIT passionately supports women at every stage of their STEAM careers - from the classroom to the boardroom. They do this by telling the stories of successful women and by helping more women write their own.

Accelerators & Incubators

Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI)

The Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative is a municipally-funded incubator with a mission to elevate, engage and empower entrepreneurship through women.

Resources For Female Founders: Ambassadors

Meet the Startup Atlanta board members who serve as ambassadors to the community and help curate the resources in this section.
Christy Brown
‍President, Launchpad2x
Amelia Schaffner
‍Director of Entrepreneurship,
Emory University's Goizueta Business School

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