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Australia: Boosting Female Founders Initiative – Round 1

NOFO: Global Emerging Leaders in International Cyberspace Security (US)

Deadline: 14 April 2020

The Boosting Female Founders Initiative Round 1 provides female founders of startup businesses with funding to launch and scale their businesses into domestic and global markets. It will help female entrepreneurs overcome the disadvantages they face in getting access to finance and support, to grow their startups. Targeted support will be on a co-contribution basis.

The Boosting Female Founders Initiative (the program) will run over three years from 2020-21 to 2022-23. The program is part of the Women’s Economic Security Package, which helps to support more Australian women into work and supports Australia’s international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The program will provide targeted support on a co-contribution basis to female founders of startup businesses (startups) to launch and scale their businesses into domestic and global markets.

Objectives

The objectives of the program are to:

Outcomes

The intended outcomes of the program are:

Eligible Activities

To be eligible your project must:

Funding and Project Period Information

The Australian Government has announced a total of $18 million. For this round, $6 million is available.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible you must:

Who is not eligible?

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

For more information, visit https://www.business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/Boosting-Female-Founders

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