Berlin Female Founders, Apply for the FemaleStartAperitivo

Attention Berlin Female Founders – Apply by March 8th for the Female StartAperitivo Semi-Final Berlin!

The Female StartAperitivo, initiated by the Hamburg Investors Network, is heading into the next round, and Berlin is part of it. The Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. is hosting the semi-final in the capital together with the Startup Incubator Berlin of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) and R+V. The goal is to give female founders and women-led startups the attention they deserve.

Do you run a startup based in Berlin and want to present your idea to investors and a large audience? Then apply now for the semi-final.

When, where, how?

  • Date: March 2025, from 6 PM
  • Location: DeepSpace @ The Drivery, Berlin
  • Application deadline: March 2025
  • Startup application: bit.ly/FSA_Halbfinale_Berlin

What are the startup criteria?

  • At least one woman or female-presenting person in the founding team (with at least 5% real equity)
  • Founded with registered office in Berlin
  • Industry-agnostic, Pre-Seed to Series A (maximum 5 years old)
  • MVP, initial revenue or funding (e.g. for DeepTech)

What is there to win?

  • Qualification for the Germany Final on June 27, 2025 in Berlin
  • Exclusive prizes for the best team and the audience favorite
  • Visibility with investors, media, and decision-makers
  • Access to a strong network within the startup ecosystem

To all investors, spectators, and interested parties: Secure your free ticket now via Eventbrite and support the female founders of the region!

Tickets and further information: FSA2025HFB.eventbrite.com

 

Berlin’s female entrepreneurs invest in Berlin’s female founders

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At the FemaleCapital Pitch Night on December 16, 2024, female founders will present their promising startups at the Ullsteinhaus in Berlin – at the new location of the Startup Incubator Berlin.

Berlin women investing in Berlin female founders – that is the FemaleCapital initiative, launched by encourageventures with the support of the Berlin Senate for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, celebrating its Berlin premiere this year. As part of the encourageventures Academy, Berlin women were trained as investors. The focus was not only on sound foundational knowledge about angel investment, but also on mentoring and community building.

Pitch Night: A Stage for Female Founders

The highlight of the initiative is the FemaleCapital Pitch Night on December 16, 2024, which will be officially opened by Franziska Giffey, Senator for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. At the FemaleCapital Pitch Night, six selected female founders from across Berlin will present their exciting business ideas to secure investment, including the SIB EXIST Founding Scholarship Team Deepfile, which has already made it into the Top 10 at the Innovation Award Berlin Brandenburg.

A Strong Network for Female Founders

Especially for female founders, investor networks are a valuable opportunity to specifically seek contact with the still scarce number of female business angels. A strong ecosystem in Berlin strengthens not only the visibility of female investors, but also the prospects for innovative ideas and projects by women.

Ullsteinhaus: A Dual Founding Hub

The FemaleCapital Pitch Night is at the same time a preview of upcoming developments at this location: From January 2025, the Startup Incubator Berlin (SIB), the founding center of the Berlin School of Economics and Law, will relocate to the Ullsteinhaus. Together with The Drivery – the global ecosystem for mobility innovation – the SIB brings its many years of experience in startup support and is specifically expanding its focus on supporting female founders. This includes practice-oriented workshops and coaching to impart founding knowledge, dedicated spaces for founding teams, and a prototyping and multimedia lab. In addition, the SIB’s network for early-stage founding support and its scholarship programs complement The Drivery’s offering. In particular, the new Berlin Startup Scholarship Women and the EXIST Women Program offer the SIB’s tailored support for female founders.

An Ecosystem for More Innovation

The investor network encourageventures aims, together with the Berlin Senate for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises and other partners in the startup ecosystem, to create a more inclusive, innovative and dynamic investment landscape from which the economy and society as a whole will benefit. Through close collaboration with policymakers, business angels, startups and the entire environment can be sustainably strengthened. Policymakers set the framework conditions that enable innovation and growth, startups act as drivers of technological and economic development, and business angels contribute capital, contacts and know-how. A successful dialogue and cooperation between these parties are essential for building a dynamic and successful startup and angel ecosystem.

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Introducing the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women Batch I – 2024

We are welcoming our first Batch for the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women at the Startup Incubator Berlin. The first month is over and we already accomplished the first steps: Mentor-Matching, Deep Dives, Lean Startup Canvas and more.

Our scholars for a period of 9 months are:

Margarita Fray with Dreamsome

Dreamsome is an app that helps deepen self-understanding and improve well-being through dream journaling and lucid dreaming practices. Are you passionate about dreams? Or curious about lucid dreaming? Follow us and set on a journey of self-discovery -> https://www.instagram.com/dreamsome.space

Madina Katter with Grains

Grains is the-first-of-its-kind non-profit hospitality school that helps displaced people to integrate into new communities and find jobs in the hospitality industry. Launched in Ukraine with the aim to help globally.

Daria Trints with Periodly

Periodly helps menstruating people understand their menstrual cycle and organize the life around it. The Periodly Chatbot sends information about what’s going on in a body according to each day of the cycle of users, every day providing nutrition and productivity tips to be efficient and have peace of mind.

Shannon Weißel with SmrtCut

SmrtCut is a plugin that provides customized keyboard shortcuts and AI-powered automations to increase productivity in software applications.

Ran Liu with Space Egg

With Space Egg the customer can use cutting-edge AI tools to create a unique art piece, then collaborate with top-tier artists to transform it into a stunning oil painting. Whether online or at exclusive offline events, it will be a personalised, high-quality art experience.

Katharina Schultz-Ebert with Unite

Unite gets refugees into good jobs faster by digitizing the recognition process for foreign nursing qualifications. Our automatic analysis of application documents reduces costs and waiting times, and migrant applicants receive targeted information on required qualifications and further training. Additionally, our solution enables companies to better compare foreign qualifications, allowing them to fill vacancies more efficiently.

Anna Motzek with Queer World

Queer World will be a comprehensive platform that lists all queer bars, events, and gatherings, fostering a vibrant community. Users can connect with others and join activities together, enhancing the social experience within the queer scene.

Good 2024 with Franziska Giffey #femaleempowerment

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On October 11th and 12th we joined the deGut – German Founders’ and Entrepreneurship Days trade fair, a comprehensive platform for aspiring entrepreneurs and for gaining insights on how to found a business. A big part of the program during this both days was dedicated to female entrepreneurship and empowerment.

This year we were very fortunate since we had the possibility to exhibit together with Grace Accelerator and avant now since we are the three selected incubators that are able to offer the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women. The scholarships are intended to support around 60 female founders. They will receive funding of up to 2,200 euros per month /per person for 9 months (at the Startup Incubator Berlin, duration differs) during the start-up phase.

Katrin Jahnke from SIB had the honor to receive the official grant notice personally from our Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey on stage and two of our female founders who just joined the program, Daria Trints with Periodly and Katharina Schultz-Ebert with Unite had the chance to pitch their startup idea with great support from the female founders community from the SIB and the whole ecosystem!

We are very proud and thankful that we are able to empower future female founders and non-binary persons with such a program and more to come.

Find here all the details for the application for the 2nd upcoming batch, starting March 2025, for the Belrin Startup Scholarship Women at the Startup Incubator Berlin.

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Pitch & Jury Berlin Startup Scholarship Women

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We received many application for the Berlin Startup Scholarship for Women and are looking forward to our pitching day. At the 18th of September 10 female finalists will pitch in front of our expert jury. We would like to introduce the female experts supporting us:

JURY BERLIN STARTUP SCHOLARSHIP WOMEN

Lina Gunstmann:

Communications Manager at the Startup Initiative of Bitkom, Diversity Advocate, Committed to Making the Startup Ecosystem More Inclusive.


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Madlen Dietrich:

Head of Network and Communication at Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science; Innovation driver, networker and bridge builder between industry and start-ups, with constant curiosity and enthusiasm for innovative ideas and exciting start-up personalities.

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Katrin Jahnke:

Project-Lead of Berlin Startup Scholarship at Startup Incubator Berlin, financial and accounting expert, Female Empowerment Enthusiast.


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Caroline Kirstoff:

Relationship Manager for Start-ups at Berliner Sparkasse, Banking Partner at Eye Level, Committed to Supporting Great Ideas and Diverse Teams.


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Tinush*Tina Weise:

Founder and CEO of Trueffles, Weise Strategy Consulting and SHE/THEY – the queer start-up founders club, fueled with passion for good brands, quality products, diverse teams and DEI.

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We are very thankful for their support of the female future founders and the Startup Incubator Berlin.

ORGANISATION AND MODERATION

Sandra Thumm

Networking & Marketing Manager at the Startup Incubator Berlin, Project Lead Exist Women, Former Startup Founder SIMS schwangerinmeinerstadt.de GmbH, Startup Coach, Co-Lead Startup Agenda 2022-2026 Theme Diversity, strong enthusiast for female empowerment and equal rights.

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NEWS: Berlin Startup Scholarship for Women

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We are very excited to announce that we received a new female empowerment program at the Startup Incubator Berlin – the Berlin Startup Scholarship for Women!

Since Berlin wants to become the number one innovation location in Europe, the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Enterprises and the European Social Fund+ established a new funding instrument – the Berlin Startup Scholarship for Women. It supports female founders with an innovative, technology-based start-up concept in the further development of their prototype until it enters the market. The newly established female founder scholarship is intended to specifically support women in order to increase female founded startups in the Berlin Startup Ecosystem.

The Startup Incubator Berlin is a strong supporter of female empowerment, female entrepreneurship and diversity. We are highly motivated to strive for a higher female founders rate and for that we receive an extensive support from experts, mentors, alumni, ecomomic leaders, the industry and economy of Berlin.

The Berlin Startup Scholarship Women will be offered in two batches. First to start 1st of October 2024. So application are already open:

https://www.startup-incubator.berlin/bsswomen/

The Scholarship:

  • Non-refundable grant of 2,200 € (gross) per person / per month
  • Funding for 1 to 4 qualified participants per team
  • Initial funding period of 9 months for full-time startups
  • Support of professional lead coach, as well as from a pool of external consultants, academic mentors and business advisors
  • Extra budget for external specialist coaching worth 1,000 € per startup team

Requirements:

  • female or non-binary founders
  • you need to be resident of Berlin
  • participate fulltime in the program and mostly on site in the co working space
  • have not founded your business yet or another startup in the past
  • a valid visa – please watch the visa video

We are looking forward to your application – hurry up – deadline is the 8th of September 2024!

Apply now: https://www.startup-incubator.berlin/bsswomen/

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Introducing the EXIST Women Female Founders Batch 2024

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We are deligted to present the first batch in the EXIST Women program: Since the beginning of 2024 the Startup Incubator Berlin of the Business School of Economics and Law is supporting a lively group of 10 aspiring female founders. EXIST Women allows women who are interested in setting up a business to expand their knowledge about starting up and self-employment at an early stage. The program runs up to 12 months of various support offers, and also includes a 3-month scholarship.

Introducing our EXIST Women:

Daria Trints and Marina Yankovskaya with PERIODLY

Periodly helps menstruating people understand their menstrual cycle and organize the life around it. The Periodly Chatbot sends information about what’s going on in a body according to each day of the cycle of users, every day providing nutrition and productivity tips to be efficient and have peace of mind.

Ran Liu and Judith Plodeck with Space Egg Art Gallery

With Space Egg the customer can use cutting-edge AI tools to create a unique art piece, then collaborate with top-tier artists to transform it into a stunning oil painting. Whether online or at exclusive offline events, it will be a personalised, high-quality art experience.

Alex Servie with creme frech

Creme Frech aspires to elevate the artisans of the world by curating a handmade collection of quality interior goods. It is the antidote to unsustainable mass-produced decor, a celebration of the human touch, and a guide to cultivating joy with less. The selection of wall art, textiles, and ceramics will provide guaranteed quality sourced directly from the artist and straight to your home.

Mimosa Akbal – Sustainibility in Hospitals

The founding idea aims to address the challenges in the healthcare sector in the context of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The CSRD obliges companies, including hospitals, to provide transparent sustainability reporting. The founding idea is a digital dashboard that allows hospitals to monitor their sustainability performance in various areas. This tool creates transparency and enables precise data collection to meet the requirements of the CSRD.

Madina Katter with Grains Education

Grains is a learning app and a non-profit hospitality school in Ukraine where Internally Displaced People can study for free. The goal of Grains is to help IDPs to learn skills and get well paid jobs in hospitality industry in Ukraine.

Dr. Philine Erfurt-Sandhu with “Berliner Institut für Governance & Leadership”

Good governance means actively assuming responsibility. As a think tank and training institute, practical action concepts for responsible entrepreneurship are being developed. Active ownership in the supervisory boards and among shareholders will be created and thereby strengthen the social and ecological responsibility of companies.

Salli Martin with Photo Production with AI

The business is a photo production in combination with artificial intelligence. The biggest advantages of the workflow isthat the customers know what their photos will look like before the shooting and that they can save high production costs for locations or lengthy processes.

Dorcaf Bargaoui with  Clokity 

Clokity is an innovative time recording tool.

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It is our great pleasure to have these female founders with their strong entrepreneurial mindset around and having the honor to work with them. We are also grateful for the strong support from our network with mentoring, especially Berlin Partner and the IHK Berlin.

The mode is: Learning from each other, supporting each other, keeping up the motivation and the spirit – Women lifting women to success!

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Calling Future Female Founders

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The Startup Incubator Berlin started its new support program EXIST Women with a batch of ten impressive female founders which had been selected at the Pitch Night in January. Their startup ideas range from AI solutions, Tunesian product imports, high-end e-commerce or SAAS solutions up to a health app and an institute focusing on diversity management.

We are proud to have strong partners with the Berliner Sparkasse and WLounge as well as the Business Angel Club Berlin Brandenburg e.V. to support us with the program. In addition, we collaborate with other universities in Berlin and share our events and workshops for female founders.

To extend our support beyond our participants in the EXIST Women programm, we dedicate our two-week Lean Startup Sprint (February 20th – March 1st, 2024) to future female founders and host a female-only edition. The free program includes several workshops, coaching, peer learning and a UX-Testing. You will learn all about prototyping, marketing and branding, “Attitude as a Super Power” or financial planning.

All female founders out there are very much invited to join our network! Register for the free Lean Startup Sprint right away:

Lean Startup Sprint Female Edition

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New Funding for Women Interested in Starting a Business

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The Startup Incubator Berlin has launched a new funding program: EXIST Women. This is a 12-month qualification program including a 3-month scholarship, aimed exclusively at women interested in founding a business. Graduates, researchers, and students who are interested in entrepreneurship can apply. Applications as a team are very welcome! Participation is also possible part-time alongside employment or studies.

The goal of the program is to increase the proportion of women founding businesses in Germany and to offer women the opportunity in an early-stage program to validate and further develop their startup idea. Women with a strong entrepreneurial spirit who do not yet have a fully developed idea but would like to learn more about entrepreneurship are also welcome to apply. A suitable coaching and workshop program is integrated into Exist Women.

Our task is to support women in their endeavors. Within the program, we offer them a co-working space, various labs for building prototypes including materials, workshops, and relevant events. The application is a short form and the application deadline is January 7, 2024. After a short period, an initial selection round will take place and selected women will be invited to a short pitch on January 18, 2024 before a jury and audience. In the first batch, 10 women will be selected; the decision will be made directly after the pitch based on an evaluation matrix.

The program then begins on January 26, 2024 with a networking breakfast to get to know each other and to connect with potential mentors. We are grateful for the support of Berliner Sparkasse, WLounge, and the Business Angel Club Berlin Brandenburg e.V. in shaping the offering for participants.

Further links:

General information on Exist Women

To the Exist Women application form

We look forward to many applications, great ideas, and getting to know you in person!

((English Version))

NEW: Exist Women Scholarship

The EXIST Women scholarship specifically supports women in order to introduce them to founding their own business. Even at the beginning of a start-up project, the business idea can be developed and tested over the course of the program. Individual female founders and female teams can apply; in mixed teams, only women receive funding. You will enter a 12 month programm with coaching and workshops and a 3 months scholarship. Please find all details here: https://www.startup-incubator.berlin/exist-women/?lang=en

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Water Management Innovation Challenge 2023

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Invitation to the Kick-Off Event “Water Innovation Challenge Berlin”

On 11/10 from 3:00 – 6:00 PM, the kick-off event “Water Innovation Challenge Berlin” will take place in cooperation with IHK Berlin & Berlin Partner at the HWR campus in Schöneberg. Stakeholders from business, research, and society will be brought together around the topic of water to exchange ideas on the following topics:

  • Sponge city
  • Water reuse / water conservation
  • Drinking water quality (esp. Legionella)

Future joint transfer formats will also be planned at this event.

When & Where:
October 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Aula of the Berlin School of Economics and Law Campus Schöneberg Building B,
Badensche Straße 50-51, 10825 Berlin

Registration via Eventbrite https://water-innovation-challenge.eventbrite.de

Who should attend?

  • Researchers looking to bring research projects into practice with partners
  • Business stakeholders interested in research & startup collaborations
  • Startups with relevant topics and offerings

The Berlin university network “Zukunft findet Stadt”, IHK Berlin, the Startup Incubator Berlin of HWR Berlin, and Berlin Partner warmly invite interested companies, researchers, and startups to a joint kick-off networking and exchange event. Food and drinks will be provided.

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