EmpoWomen Program

📣 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 2𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 2, 17:00 𝐂𝐄𝐓. 👉 All necessary documentation and guidance can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ddDNRcbc If you have any difficulties or questions, our helpdesk is here to support you: helpdesk@empowomen.eu 📩 Submit your application and take the next step toward empowerment! #EmpoWomen #OpenCall #WomenEmpowerment #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #HorizonEurope #EISMEA #ApplyNow

Balancing the challenges of personal life, motherhood, professional careers, and the drive to make a meaningful impact in the world is no small feat. Yet, we continue to rise to the occasion, determined to pursue our proposed goals and create something that we are proud of. It’s not always easy, but one thing I’ve always believed—and now know with even greater conviction: women can truly do it all. The right support just makes it easier 🌟 Dear Noemi Zabari, Slawa Madelska, Matylda Cianciara, Marianna Michałowska and Kamila Przybylska, Neide Vieira, PhD and Joana Rafaela Guerreiro, Prakseda Mineikiene, Annija Emersone, Jenny Romano, Natalia Dernicka and Małgorzata Walichiewicz, Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz, Aliona Levca, Dorota Dardzinska 🍀 it has been a privilege to share this journey with you, getting to know more about your challenges, accomplishments, and how you manage it all while continuing to excel. Sharing experiences is truly invaluable, and this program provided the perfect space to foster connection and learning every step of the way. ⚡️ Additional thanks to the people who made it possible, EmpoWomen Program team: Sploro, Startup Wise Guys, TechUkraine, Business Angels Europe, Jenny Tooth OBE, Alberto Sierra Bañón, Miguel García González, Paula Ostiz, and specially to dear Timi Ilze, Tatiana Skydan, and Karina Lapina. It's nice when we support each other ❤️

🌟 Empowering Moments: EmpoWomen Demo Day & Slush 2024 Experience! 🌟 With the EmpoWomen Program Demo Day held in Helsinki, we concluded an incredible journey of empowerment, learning, and growth as women entrepreneurs. To top it off, we had the amazing opportunity to attend one of the world’s leading startup events, Slush! 🚀✨ I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who made this experience unforgettable: 🙏 To the Startup Wise Guys team and the 11 inspiring startups and their remarkable female founders, Slawa Madelska (HUGUP) Prakseda Mineikiene (INNOSENSUS) Annija Emersone (P-Agro Minerals) Jenny Romano (The Newsroom) Natalia Dernicka (Heilo ) Aliona Levca (Pinky CyberSafe) Dorota Dardzińska (IQ Biozoom Noemi Zabari (Astroteq.ai) Neide Vieira, PhD (IPLEXMED) Patrícia C. Henriques (GOTECH Antimicrobial) 🙏 To Timi Ilze, whose unwavering support, kindness, and dedication made every step of this journey inspiring and meaningful. Thank you for being the heart and soul of this program! 🙏 To our leadership coach, Karina Lapina, who gave us new perspectives on leadership, 🙏 To my dear Tatiana Skydan, who shared this extraordinary journey with us. The EmpoWomen Program was more than just an accelerator; it was a community of solidarity, learning, and courage. 💡💪 Now, it’s time to bring what we’ve learned into our companies and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The future is waiting for us! 🌍🚀 #EmpoWomen #DemoDay #StartupWiseGuys #Slush2024 #WomenInTech #Entrepreneurship #Innovation Burcu Yürekli Yılmazel

Empowering women-led tech startups across Europe 🦄 Last week at #SLUSH, EmpoWomen Program, the EU-funded project under the Horizon Europe managed by Sploro, Startup Wise Guys, TechUkraine, Business Angels Europe, hosted their pitching event for the 11 startups in the first batch. Together with Wendy HL. CHENG, Sezen Gungor, Pasi Pohjala, we could listen and evaluate pitching from an impressive lineup of innovative women-led tech startups. It's encouraging to see how initiatives like EmpoWomen are helping to bridge the gender gap in tech entrepreneurship and fostering a more equitable startup landscape across Europe. Diversity in the startup scene (not only gender diversity) fosters innovation by bringing together varied perspectives that lead to creative solutions and better decision-making. Looking forward to seeing these startups grow and make their mark in the global tech scene. Congratulations to all participants and organisers for a successful event! Thank you Alberto Sierra Bañón, thank you Timi Ilze!

💫 Women Entrepreneurs Taking the Stage and Shaping the Future at Demo Day in #Helsinki! Last week was truly unforgettable! We celebrated the inaugural cohort Demo Day of the EmpoWomen Program in Helsinki, spotlighting innovation, resilience, and the incredible women-led startups driving change. 🎪 The teams had an incredible experience at one of the most anticipated events in the Baltics, Slush Conference 2024, where the program proudly showcased its impact with a dedicated booth! This milestone event was nothing short of inspiring, perfectly showcasing the power of women in tech and entrepreneurship. 💪✨ 👏 A huge round of applause to our award winners: Noemi Zabari (Astroteq.ai), Neide Vieira, PhD (IPLEXMED), and Patrícia C. Henriques (GOTECH Antimicrobial). 🌟 Special recognition to all stellar participants: Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz (GMZ Enerji Sistemleri), Slawa Madelska (HUGUP), Prakseda Mineikiene (INNOSENSUS), Annija Emersone (P-Agro Minerals), Jenny Romano (The Newsroom), Natalia Dernicka (Heilo ), Aliona Levca (Pinky CyberSafe), and Dorota Dardzinska (IQ Biozoom). 💖 Heartfelt thanks to our red team: Timi Ilze for her unwavering leadership and energy managing this program from Startup Wise Guys’ side, Brianna Quintero for her support throughout the initiative, and Monica Aguilar for stepping in and lending a hand during the event. 👩🏫 Kudos to these amazing ladies, our #mentors who guided, inspired, and paved the way by sharing their expertise throughout the program: Zane Bojāre, Fabienne Hakim, Faten Matmati, and Karina Lapina! 👏 Shoutout to the phenomenal supporters of the program: Sploro, TechUkraine, and Business Angels Europe and many others! Here’s to breaking ceilings, redefining industries, and empowering women founders to change the world. 💪✨ #EmpoWomen #WomenInTech #StartupsToWatch #Slush2024 #Innovation #WomenEmpowerment #BreakingBarriers

What an exciting time for our startup Heilo 💙 Last week we met in Helsinki on Demo Day to sum up the past 6 months in #EmpoWomen acceleration program. Reflecting on the journey, it’s incredible to see the major milestones we’ve achieved, and it’s truly rewarding! 🙌 We’ve been chosen to ‘Badass 11’ from 169 applications from all over Europe. 🚀 During this 6-months acceleration program with tech & business mentors, business angels and investors, together with my amazing co-founder Małgorzata Walichiewicz we’ve taken our company to the next level by defining a clear development strategy, completing our MVP, and successfully launching Heilo to the market. 💙 We’ve produced a first batch of Heilo - an innovative air-purifier that protects babies’ health from air pollution while outdoors, and it’s available for testing now! 🌍 Thanks to the sales rockstar Katarzyna Gonera we’re running sales activities in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Our product is already available in the largest baby stores in Poland, and we’ll be starting pre-sales for the next season soon! These past few months in the EmpoWomen accelerator have given us an incredible boost of inspiration and motivation to thrive. It’s all thanks to the remarkable women in tech and innovation: Noemi Zabari Dorota Dardzinska Neide Vieira, PhD Joana Rafaela Guerreiro Patrícia C. Henriques Prakseda Mineikiene Slawa Madelska Matylda Cianciara Jenny Romano, Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz Aliona Levca, Annija Emersone - you are true role models. Congratulations on your hard work, making a real impact, being THE change, and delivering life-saving solutions! Huge thank you to the Startup Wise Guys, TechUkraine and Sploro teams, energy-boosters Timi Ilze and Tatiana Skydan, our mentors Fabienne Hakim, Jenny Tooth OBE and Business Angels Europe for all the insights, guidance and support throughout this journey. And a heartfelt thank you from me and Małgorzata to our incredible core team, Damian Dygoń and Daria Wypiór for creating Heilo with us. Your creativity and dedication made it all possible - we couldn’t have done it without you!

I first met Noemi Zabari at the kick-off of the EmpoWomen Program, and I instantly knew she was extraordinary! Her groundbreaking work in Astroteq.ai is remarkable, but what stands out even more is her unique approach to life and the inspiring way she carries herself 🌟 Huge congratulations on winning the finals—it’s so well deserved! Reflecting on these past months, one thought keeps coming to mind: it’s incredible and truly admirable how much we’ve all grown! 🤩 The celebrations captured in the pictures from the Demo Day at Slush and beyond, I feel, are not just about the external achievements but also a reflection of the personal growth and inner victories we’ve experienced along the way✌️ Here’s to a bright future for all of us! 🥳 Neide Vieira, PhD, Joana Rafaela Guerreiro, Patrícia C. Henriques, Prakseda Mineikiene, Matylda Cianciara, Kamila Przybylska, Marianna Michałowska, Jenny Romano, Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz, Aliona Levca, Annija Emersone, Natalia Dernicka, Małgorzata Walichiewicz, Dorota Dardzinska And a heartfelt thank-you to our amazing mentors who guided us and made this journey unforgettable! 👏 Sploro, Startup Wise Guys, Business Angels Europe, TechUkraine, Zane Bojāre, Timi Ilze, Alberto Sierra Bañón, Miguel García González, Tatiana Skydan, Jenny Tooth OBE, Nataly Veremeeva, Lee Lam, Moritz Grumbach, Andrea Carpineti, Mariia Tintul

We all know that the #tech industry was historically men-dominated and I have this huge opportunity to see women breaking those barriers! Not just participate - but lead, create, innovate, shape, and most important, inspire!✨ I had the honor of meeting some of these incredible barrier-breakers during Slush through EmpoWomen Program with Sploro Startup Wise Guys Business Angels Europe TechUkraine ! And the power of these two days was incredible ✨ Adding a victory to the mix, and boom—motivation overload! 😎🤯 Cheers to all of you Neide Vieira, PhD Joana Rafaela Guerreiro Bruno Almeida Patrícia C. Henriques Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz Slawa Madelska Matylda Cianciara Kamila Przybylska Prakseda Mineikiene Annija Emersone Jenny Romano Natalia Dernicka Małgorzata Walichiewicz Aliona Levca Dorota Dardzinska Jakub Kaczmarski Itamar Zabari Kévin Almeida Cheminant Huge thanks to Timi Ilze Alberto Sierra Bañón Miguel García González Mónica Aguilar Tatiana Skydan Nataly Veremeeva Faten Matmati Jenny Tooth OBE And thanks for getting to know us all! Wendy HL. CHENG Sezen Gungor Salvatore Cavallaro Pasi Pohjala

Don't miss #EDIH Network Summit 2024 and the presentation of the EmpoWomen Programme by Sploro on November 27!

It has been an absolutely inspiring and transformative experience to be selected, participate in, and emerge as one of the winners of the first EmpoWomen Program cohort. I am deeply grateful to be part of this incredible family, where learning, growth, and empowerment were at the heart of every step of the journey. As IPLEXMED we have evolved tremendously, guided by the mentorship and support from Startup Wise Guys Accelerator and Business Angels Europe. Their expertise and dedication have been invaluable in shaping our path forward. A special thanks to TechUkraine for amplifying our voice and showcasing our mission to a broader audience. I am genuinely honored and humbled to stand among such brilliant individuals in this remarkable cohort. This achievement is not just a milestone but a launchpad for further growth. Together, we are committed to pushing boundaries and driving forward with purpose and determination. Here's to building a brighter, stronger future! Big kisses to Noemi Zabari Patrícia C. Henriques Gamze Karanfil Kaçmaz Slawa Madelska Prakseda Mineikiene Annija Emersone Jenny Romano Natalia Dernicka Aliona Levca Dorota Dardzinska I will always be rooting for your success ❤️ Kuddos to the EmpoWomen Program: Sploro | Startup Wise Guys | TechUkraine | Business Angels Europe | European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) | Alberto Sierra Bañón Miguel García González Timi Ilze Rita K. Tatiana Skydan Nataly Veremeeva Jenny Tooth OBE for pulling this off! What a ride it has been.