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Scotland’s first all-female business angel syndicate, Investing Women Angels (IWA), and its sister organisation AccelerateHER have launched a new initiative designed to attract more businesswomen into angel investing – an imperative in addressing the equity gap between male and female-le

Dundee's V&A Museum is poised to host the AccelerateHER Showcase this Thursday, 14 March, spotlighting 14 exceptional female founders from Scottish businesses. These entrepreneurs will present their companies and pitch for potential investment to an invited audience.

The findings of new research by AccelerateHER, released to coincide with International Women’s Day, have shown a strong appetite for growth amongst UK female company founders. The survey, which involved 316 female founders from all four home nations of the UK, showed that 92% believed their bu

Pathways Forward has launched its Pledge initiative with leading organisations committing to actionable steps aligned with the principles set out in the Pathways report, with their performance measured over a 12-month period. AccelerateHER, CivTech, CodeBase, Deloitte, Eos Advisory, Scottish EDGE, a

Highland-based female and non-binary entrepreneurs are invited to participate in the Inverness Hackathon, an event organised by AccelerateHER in collaboration with Techscaler. Scheduled for 7 March, at the Kingsmill Hotel in Inverness, the free-to-attend event is tailored to address technology chall

A new initiative aimed at empowering female entrepreneurs in the technology sector has been unveiled by Barclays Eagle Labs and Scottish-based AccelerateHER. The Female Founders Accelerator, a nine-week program, is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, and it has attracte

Four aspiring female company founders have been recognised for their innovative businesses as winners of the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. The winners, from the awards’ four specific categories of technology, environment, culture, and health, were unveiled at Thursday’s finals event which w

The appearance of Mark Logan, Scotland’s chief entrepreneur, at the AccelerateHER Awards 2023 finals later this month has been confirmed. The former Skyscanner executive will host a fireside chat at the event which takes place on 16 March at the new Barclays campus in Glasgow.

Twelve aspirational female company founders have been shortlisted as finalists in the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. Three female-led companies were selected from each of the awards’ four specific categories - technology; environment; culture; and health. A winner from each of the four categories

An Edinburgh hackathon event has been announced at which tech and business experts from the Scottish startup ecosystem will lend their support to female founders by answering questions and advising on key technology challenges. AccelerateHER, an organisation centred on accelerating growth for female

Barclays Eagle Labs and AccelerateHER have announced a new partnership aimed at bringing more women into entrepreneurship and levelling the playing field for female-founded businesses. The two organisations will work closely together to deliver the Barclays Eagle Labs Female Founder Accelerator Prog

Scotland’s national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise has been named as one of the key partners supporting AccelerateHER Awards 2023, a programme recognising and celebrating the achievements of the nation’s female-founded businesses. The 2023 awards were launched last month

A group of Scottish-based female company founders will be heading west to California later this month to attend a five-day, market-building trade mission. Supported by Scottish Government, the event takes place from 28 November to 2 December and is led by AccelerateHER, working in partnership with G

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.

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 tha