Deadline: 31-Jul-20
F-LANE is a five-week virtual accelerator for impact-driven entrepreneurs who have developed an innovative digital solution that has the potential to impact millions of girls and women around the globe. Their partners, Yunus Social Business, are experts in solving humanity’s most pressing needs by harnessing the power of business.
Tailor-made programme
Through personalised support, capacity building and ecosystem work – they maximise your potential and bring your business to the next level. Five weeks of acceleration will provide a platform to grow individually, sharpen your business and impact model and get it ready for investment.
The programme will run virtually for five weeks from early September until late October. Keeping in mind entrepreneur’s busy time, our programme weeks will contain 3 days of content and there will be a break of several weeks in between to allow time for FLANE inputs to be digested and implemented by the teams. This way, we hope to bring the best of both worlds by combining the experience and excellence from on-site programmes with the flexibility of a remote setup.
Benefits
- Connect with Mentors: You will have a dedicated Vodafone mentor throughout the programme who will be as fired up about your business as you are, offering you advice and acting as your counterpart to discuss the tough decisions you face. You will also have access to top-notch international experts that will help you on specific topics (e.g. product, investment, tech etc.).
- Build Impact Remotely: Bolster your impact trajectory no matter where you are. There is no limit to location. All you need is an internet connection to engage in our accelerator programme and participate in virtual networking events.
- Join a Community: Unite under a common vision and collaborate with other talented founders. Engage in purposeful cross-sector conversations with peers and experts to take your company, but also yourself as a founder to the new level. As a team leader, you will see the importance of nurturing a community inside your own company.
- Access to Investors: We personally introduce you to potential business partners and valuable investors throughout the programme.
- Make It Yours: After individually assessing where and how we can best help you get to the next stage of your venture’s life, we set up a curriculum, 1-1 mentoring and key virtual experiences to help YOU work on your business.
- Join the Impact Ecosystem: Join the YSB global impact community, founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammed Yunus. Additionally, you will have access to the Impact Hub community that contains +15 000 social innovators as well as to the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie.
- A Partner like No Other: You will have the unique opportunity to work with and be connected to Vodafone Germany and the wider Vodafone family.
- It’s On Us: The programme is free of charge and no equity is taken!
- Week 1: 7th September
- Week 2: 21st September
- Week 3: 5th October
- Week 4: 19th October
- Week 5: 2nd November
- led by women or empower women in their roles,
- clear about the social mission and measure their impact,
- an innovative and technology-based solution,
- scalable solutions that have the potential to impact millions of girls and women around the world,
- put into practice by means of an enterprising, more-than-profit approach,
- have proven their concept in the market,
- will benefit from participating in the programme and
- ventures to which the value of the help is real.
- The first steps is an online application, asking about your business idea, team and motivation.
- In a second step, their team will schedule a call to get to know you and your business more in-depth.
- Lastly, an experienced advisory board takes the final decision in the application process.
For more information, visit https://www.f-lane.com/programme/