AccelerateHER appointed as partner for Barclays Eagle Labs female founder support programme
Scotland-based network group selected to help deliver new UK-wide programme aimed at innovative female business leaders The fully funded programme will be delivered digitally over eight weeks, with applications closing on Friday 6th January Barclays Eagle Labs and AccelerateHER have announced a new partnership aimed at bringing more women into entrepreneurship and levelling the playing […]
AccelerateHER expansion continues with new CEO appointment
AccelerateHER, Scotland’s dynamic network for female-founders has appointed Elizabeth Pirrie as its new CEO. The Scottish-based organisation, which empowers UK female-founded businesses to scale for growth, has made the new appointment amid UK-wide expansion of both its team and operations. Founder and current CEO, Jackie Waring, now becomes AccelerateHER’s Chair, where she is focused on […]
Scottish entrepreneur confirmed to chair Women in Enterprise Group
Scottish entrepreneur and investor Ana Stewart will chair the Scottish Government-commissioned Women in Enterprise Review. Co-authored by Mark Logan, who wrote the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review in 2020, it will focus on areas including education, access to finance, support and mentoring for women in business. Stewart said: “We have set out to examine current conditions, and to […]
New online initiative to widen support for female founders
AccelerateHER and Scottish Enterprise have teamed up to launch a new online training initiative designed to support the growing number of female business founders in Scotland. Using the Thinkific platform, AccelerateHER will now deliver its series of finance workshops as pre-recorded sessions so that female founders can learn at a time that suits them. The […]
Former Apple adviser to meet Scottish female founders in California trade mission
Ron Weissman, a leading global tech sector figure, former senior executive at Apple and adviser to the company’s late founder Steve Jobs, will meet with a group of Scottish-based female company founders during a virtual trade mission to California next week. The event is being jointly led by AccelerateHER and Gwen Edwards, Managing Director (Silicon Valley) of US-based Golden Seeds, an angel investor group which backs high-potential, women-led businesses. The mission is designed […]
Waring on a ‘major mission’ to lift investment by women
Jackie Waring of Investing Women (IW) is upbeat about the quality of investment opportunities across the Scottish business landscape. Her group has agreed several deals in recent months, including a deal recently completed to support a film and media venture whose technology will increase the diversity of content in that sector. There’s also currently £80,000 in the […]
Inspiring female founders on the rise: winners announced for AccelerateHER Awards 2021
Four inspiring and aspirational businesswomen and their companies have shared the spotlight today as winners of the AccelerateHER Awards 2021. The awards final, staged online, unveiled a winner from each of the four key sector categories – CleanTech and Climate; Disruptive Innovation; MedTech and Science; and FinTech, Data Science and Cyber Security – from a […]