Many of Northern Ireland’s most prominent and inspirational female business leaders came together on Thursday 10th November for the 2022 Women in Business Voices of Leadership Conference. Hosted by BBC NI’s Clodagh Rice at the Galgorm Resort, this year’s leadership event featured keynote speakers Jayne Brady, head of Northern Ireland [...]
Women in Business is collaborating with AwakenHub as part of their shared vision to create greater gender parity for women founders and investors across the island of Ireland. September’s Women Angel Insights report from Beauhurst and the UK Business Angels Association revealed that, of the more than 5,000 women making [...]
Northern Ireland company Kinva took the top prize at the first SheGenerate Showcase organised by AwakenHub on 14th June. The Showcase featured pitches from a selection of AwakenHub's 1st SheGenerate cohort, giving them the opportunity to share their business plans with an audience of fellow entrepreneurs and investors as well [...]
Three female founders from Northern Ireland have been recognised in this year's Innovate UK Women in Innovation Awards. These awards are for female entrepreneurs across the UK and the overall aim is to find more women with ambitious plans and excellent ideas innovating within UK businesses, to promote greater diversity [...]
Six women-led start-ups are to share £200,000 in prize business grants as part of a Female Founders competition delivered by Women in Business in partnership with Techstart Ventures. The female-focused initiative, which received over 50 applications, welcomed pioneering projects from right across the broad spectrum of Northern Ireland’s business community, [...]
Pulsar is currently sponsoring eight Female Founders on Awakenhub's Shegenerate Programme. All eight are based in Northern Ireland and have a science or tech based startup. Here's software engineer Lauren Burns talking to Awakenhub in a recent blog post. Lauren is in the early stages of her founder journey creating [...]
Pulsar is delighted to be supporting eight female founders on the Shegenerate programme. The programme launched in November and the first cohort of 56 women are now beginning their journey as they start out and take their very early steps into founder life, supported by Awakenhub. AwakenHub was founded [...]
Do you dream of starting up your own business, changing the world and being your own boss? The Royal Academy of Engineering has just launched its Regional Talent Engines programme. This is a new offer which will provide a tailored programme of support to aspiring engineering and technology entrepreneurs in [...]
Have you been inspired or impacted by Covid19 to embark on your female founder journey? SheGenerate is a new pilot from AwakenHub that might be just what you are looking for. Maybe you have already taken the plunge but following lockdown need some help in getting off the ground. Or [...]