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 in July 2020 by 4 women from Ireland, North and South, on a mission to level up opportunity, access and connectivity for women founders by removing barriers to investment, scale and success. They hold monthly community events open to any woman founder, want-to-be founder or ally who wish to support them and make relevant content freely available on their website. All the info you need is available via www.awakenhub.com 

At a time when just over 2% of investment globally is made in women founded companies and the proportion of female founders has dropped from 11% to 6% in the Irish Tech eco-system from 2019 to 2020, Shegenerate offers the opportunity to change the landscape, remove barriers and create equity for women founders.

All participants will have access to:

  • AwakenHub community events
  • private online AwakenClub
  • 6 x 2.5 hr workshops (every 3-4 weeks) and when possible, twice in one day (morning and evening) to allow for those who are juggling current jobs or family commitments.

We look forward to hearing the progress of our eight Northern Ireland women founders, all of whose business ideas are STEM focussed.

Dr. Bridgeen Callan
Dr. Bridgeen CallanKLAS therapeutics
KLAS-Therapeutics is a biotechnology company with a vision of providing a new and innovative therapy for the treatment of unresectable metastatic melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer. The technology originates from research carried out at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ulster University.
Rachel Coulter
Rachel CoulterAnimal Manager
Rachael is developing Mobile & Web Apps for the equine sector & beyond on a SaaS basis. She aims to develop apps which will help optimise every horse’s performance, automatically schedule individualised care for horses and book appointments at the touch of a button.
Claire McMullan
Claire McMullanHealthGainz
Claire is a qualified Sports Therapist who has developed an interactive AI powered self-care app for people with injuries so that they can do rehab exercises correctly under the supervision of their sports therapist. B2B2C SaaS model. Programme will improve as used through the AI.
Katrina Bradley (Gormley)
Katrina Bradley (Gormley)NumeraSee
Katrina is a primary school teacher who has created NumeraSee to teach maths in a fun and visual way. She has designed & launched two individual programmes for p5 (Mathmagicians) and p6 (MathFanatics) and has also devised a programme called Brick Work Maths and published weekly video tutorials on YouTube. In Feb 2021 she started an online programme focusing specifically on transfer test preparation.
Sinead Welsh
Sinead WelshInformed Minds Training & Consultancy Ltd
The Informed Minds app has been co-created with students aged 16-24 in direct response to self-harm & suicide rates locally, nationally & globally. Sinead with colleagues has built a modern secondary prevention social (non-clinical) model based on their Theory of Change and QUB has performed an Independent Evaluation Report of the App.
Mary Jane McBride
Mary Jane McBride Path Help App Ltd
The ‘Path’ co-founder team consists of 3 female software engineers with a variety of skills including cybersecurity, user interface development and product consultancy. Path is a user-focused app that tracks symptoms of long-term illnesses affecting women, to accelerate diagnosis and aid research.
Michelle Connor
Michelle ConnorKinva
Kinva is an unparalleled and innovative app that allows a wide variety of professionals and service-providers to create in-app programmes or plans, bespoke and tailored to their patient’s or customer’s individual needs, sent from the instructor’s desk to the client’s device.
Leona Donaghy
Leona DonaghyWholehearted Environments
Wholehearted Environments makes homes healthier through air quality improvement, moisture management, and selecting the best materials for overall wellbeing.