Ladies-focused angel funding community Scale Buyers has launched a web based schooling platform, EducatEd feminine founders be extra profitable elevating capital, and traders again extra entrepreneurs.
The platform has been designed and curated with the assistance of a number of the most influential traders and founders throughout the nation together with founders turned funders, Sarah Hamiton, Noga Edelstein. Jodie Imam in addition to founding VC companions at Folklore, the Foundry, Startmate, SBE Australia, Artesian, Sq. Peg and Sakalta.
The EducatEd platform, developed due to an $800,000 grant from the federal authorities, provides applications for each founders and traders.
The programmes options three key elements:
- FoundEd, a free 5-day introductory webinar schooling sequence for feminine founders held in early 2022 providing bite-sized on-line schooling content material and the chance to community with trail-blazing ladies entrepreneurs.
- EmpowerEd, a 10-week program, focusing on feminine founders, that mixes on-line studying, small cohort classes, mentorship, and personalised help. This course is particularly designed to decode the world of capital elevating.
- InvestEd, a self-paced, Angel Investing 101 on-line program that targets new early stage traders and explores the numerous dangers and rewards of Angel investing in startups. This system has been curated by main angel traders
Scale Buyers is at present searching for feminine founders to participate in its first EmpowerEd programdue to begin in April.
The fee is $1300 for the ten week course, nevertheless scholarships can be found to ladies from minority, marginalised, traditionally oppressed teams or folks experiencing monetary hardship. Scale co-CEO Samar McHeileh additionally made a particular supply of a 50% low cost to viewers of the Startup Day by day program on aubiz at this time after we interviewed her, in the event that they enter “ausbiz” as their low cost code.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to create a world the place gender doesn’t restrict entry to capital and we imagine that schooling is a key driver in closing the funding gender-gap. That’s why we created EducatEd,” she stated.
“We need to educate extra feminine founders about increase capital and create a secure and inclusive studying area which offers all women-led companies with the instruments to entry help and capital.”
Kym Cooper, co-founder of East Solid was among the many 350 ladies who took the FoundEd course in February.
“I used to be searching for extra steering on the strategic considering behind the capital elevating course of and this system appealed as a result of it allowed traders to share their distinctive insights and views,” she stated.
“Specifically, Gabrielle Munzer from Fundamental Sequence Ventures, launched ‘The Slamdunk Financing Mannequin.’ It actually helped, because it supplied a framework for me to suppose extra strategically about fundraising.
“I’ve since tailored the mannequin for our enterprise and gained extra confidence and management of my fundraising course of, comparable to once I want to lift, what enterprise metrics I want to achieve and who I must method. FoundEd was undoubtedly value my time and I will surely suggest it to different founders.”
For extra info on EducatEd and to enroll, go to scaleinvestors.com.au/scale-educated
