Tech Ready Women's Female Founder Startup Program

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: Applications are closing on Monday, 6 January 2025. Apply Today!

from idea to launch

Join the TRW Female Founder Startup Program

Our 8-week startup program has been specifically designed to help you test and launch your idea in the market.

The program has been developed by industry experts and successful entrepreneurs. Throughout the program you will be supported by mentors, ensuring you get access to the best advice, education and networks to help you to succeed on your startup journey. 

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Why TRW Female Founder Startup Program?

 

Kick off your startup journey with us!

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You will get access to

✔️ Hybrid Orientation Night

✔️ Weekly online workshops (from 12.30 PM to 2 PM on Mondays)

✔️ Small Group Office Hours*

✔️ E-Learning modules

✔️ Community platform

✔️ Bonus Hack The Activities sessions with your EIR

✔️ Additional Lunch & Learns with special guests

✔️ World-class mentors and industry experts

✔️ A community of like-minded female founders

*One-on-one office hours are also available at an extra subsidised cost. Read our FAQs for more information.
Time commitment: As in any life project, investing time and effort will make a difference. The program requires 1.5 hours for the weekly workshops plus 4-5 hours/week to implement the activities and attend office hours.

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What you will gain from the program

 

  • Proven methods to test, build and launch your idea
  • Confidence in your own skills and abilities to create a successful startup 
  • Access to a quality mentor and peer network
  • Clear understanding of early stage startup legals 
  • An opportunity to put into practice all of your learnings

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8-week startup course outline

Week 1

Orientation

Introduction to Tech Ready Women, getting to know you and understanding you as a founder
3 February 2025
Week 2

The Idea

Learn about design thinking, understand problem-solution fit and learn how to conduct user research
10 February 2025
Week 3

Customer & Market Discovery

Customer testing, buyer personas, competitor analysis and Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
17 February 2025
Week 4

Business & Financial Modelling

Understand different types of business models, value proposition and financial modelling for startups
24 February 2025
Week 5

Developing an Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Different types of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and landing page experiment
3 March 2025
Week 6

UX, Tech & Product Management

Product management, programming frameworks & languages, rapid prototyping and customer experience and UX design
10 March 2025
Week 7

Startup Legals

Company registration & structures, shareholders and protecting your IP
17 March 2025
Week 8

Pitch Preparation

Craft your 2-minute elevator pitch and pitch submission. You can do it!
24 March 2025
Final Week

Virtual Graduation Night

A night to celebrate and commemorate your achievements
31 March 2025
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MENTORS & EXPERTS

Meet the 2025 Mentors Cohort

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Impact Entrepreneur & CEO at YVY Life Sciences
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Head of Coaching @Skwill | Founder at Mindset Masterworks | Co-Founder at Sierra Cloud
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Head of Growth Marketing at Turo Australia
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BECCI REID (EIR)

Founder of Mycoo
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Head of Mobile and Web Development at Audax
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Founder & Director of Tech Ready Women | Co-Founder at Intu Wellness
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Program Lead at Tech Ready Women
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Founder - Middle8 and Formerly JobGetter | Startup Mentor @ UTS Startups
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Executive Coach | Mindset Coach | Startup Advisor & Investor
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Coralus Activator | Founder & Chief Play Officer at Playful Purpose
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Director at Equity Hive | Advisor, Investor, Leader & Disruptor
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Financial Controller at Work 180
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Non-Executive Director and Business Consultant
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CX Strategy | Innovation | Research | Managing Director at Outfoxed
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CEO & Co-Founder of Vitae.Coach
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Chief Product Officer | Director & Founder Coviu

If you're a Government agency, university, corporate or other organisation, that would like to make an impact and join us in our mission to deliver this program to more women, let's chat!

Hear from some of our alumni & mentors

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Without the course, I would never have had the courage to apply for an MVP grant and so much more.

Kate Neubauer
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Joining the program gave me a clear direction and a place to ask questions to help get my startup off the ground.

Nina Leelah
Bartrick Parkour
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Through the Tech Ready Women course, I have met so many inspiring, strong and ambitious women in business.

Rebecca Lim
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I wish that when I started, I had access to a program like this with industry experts of this calibre!

Lauren Warwick
Former Co-founder of Glamazon, Marketing Lead at Urban Company
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The program helped me to clearly define my goals, find major holes in what I was doing, pulled them apart and helped me put them back together. 

Blaise McCann
Founder, Hear Us Roar
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sponsors

We thank our sponsors for making it possible to bring the TRW Female Founder Startup Program to more women in Australia.

New South Wales Cohort

Proudly supported by the New South Wales Government

Tech Ready Women respectfully acknowledges the the Gadigal people of the Eora nation,
Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, work and learn.
We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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