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Biz accelerator in Northwest Arkansas will focus on women’s health – Talk Business & Politics
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Natalie Shew, from left, April Roy and Elizabeth Prenger are the founders behind FemHealth Founders.
Northwest Arkansas tech/well being innovation hub FemHealth Founders (FHF) disclosed particulars Thursday (Sept. 8) for its inaugural accelerator program targeted on ladies’s well being and wellness.
5 startups shall be chosen for the inaugural cohort, and every will obtain a $10,000 non-dilutive grant, made potential partially by a grant from the Walton Household Basis.
To be thought-about, startups have to be women-led and primarily based within the U.S. Chosen members shall be required to journey to Northwest Arkansas for a portion of this system to interact in in-person programming.
Functions shall be accepted beginning in November. The eight-week program will run within the spring of 2023. Extra data is offered at this hyperlink.
FemHealth Founders is working with Oklahoma Metropolis-based enterprise accelerator StitchCrew to launch this system. StitchCrew is an unbiased group that helps ladies and entrepreneurs of shade.
“The time to put money into ladies’s well being is now,” StitchCrew co-founder Erika Lucas stated in an announcement. “We’re proud to accomplice with FHF and the Walton Household Basis to assist ladies entrepreneurs constructing options that enhance care supply, tackle stigmatized areas and ship culturally delicate and tailor-made care choices for ladies.”
On the finish of this system, members could have the chance to fulfill an prolonged community of traders and trade leaders throughout a founders retreat in Bentonville.
April Roy, Natalie Shew and Elizabeth Prenger are the founders behind FHF. Its purpose is to develop a extra welcoming ecosystem for female-led tech/well being corporations to launch, develop and keep in Northwest Arkansas.
“About 1 p.c of healthcare innovation and analysis is invested in female-specific situations, past oncology. That quantity ought to be far greater,” Shew stated. “We’re excited to work with like-minded organizations to propel ladies founders within the heartland who wish to enhance and develop ladies’s well being and wellness options.”
StitchCrew and FemHealth Founders are internet hosting an occasion on Sept. 27 at The Collaborative in Bentonville to share varied funding choices for women-founded startups and extra particulars concerning the upcoming accelerator program. Audio system embody Lukas, Elise Alexander (AcreTrader), Charu Thomas (Ox) and moderated by Jessica Mathews (Fortune).
Extra data and registration particulars can be found at this hyperlink.