GLOBAL: Sept 2020

Empowering women founders to launch and grow successful tech businesses

Do you want to pitch like an experienced and confident entrepreneur? Do you need to secure funding, customers or inspire employees to join your startup?

We at ELEVACAO are delighted to announce that our highly rated Investor Ready Program for women tech founders is now open and 100% virtual.

A sample of ELEVACAO alumni's success post-graduation include:
* Our alumni have raised in-excess of $50m
* Lisa Wang | Founder @ SheWorx (2015 alumni), acquired by Republic in 2019
* Christy Laurence | Founder @ Plann (2017 alumni) has surpassed 2 million downloads across 160 countries and ranked top 800 grossing apps in the world - all bootstrapped
* Manuri Gunawardena | Founder @ HealthMatch, (2017 alumni) went from idea, going through our program to launch and seed funding within 12 months. Has since raised series A round and the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Australia.
*Dr Silvia Pfeiffer | Co-Founder & CEO Coviu Global (2016 alumni). Spinout from CSIRO with $1m seed investment from Main Sequence Ventures. Before COVID, they did about 400 telehealth consultations a day. To now doing more than 25,000 consultations a day!

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But the road to product in market can be more challenging when you don’t have the technical skills or network to build a tech product.

We’ve recognized this challenge and see it as a huge opportunity to help our founders fast-track to success. Therefore, ELEVACAO has partnered with Wizeline, a software development and design services company with 500+ employees across; San Francisco, New York, Mexico City, Ho Chi Minh, Guadalajara, Bangkok, Barcelona, Quertaro and Sydney.

Each company in the program will be paired with a Wizeline advisor and engineer to review their tech / tech strategy, discuss tech challenges and provide recommendations.

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The Investor Ready Program is an interactive workshop series of 8 half days delivered over an 8 week period. Kicking off September 9 through to October 27.

DURING THE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS YOU WILL;

Week 1: Get Pitch Ready
* We will help you build and deliver a superior pitch that convey’s your story and creates an emotional connection with your audience, backed by a robust business model and go-to-market strategy.

Week 2: Pitch Session 1
* Practice your pitch in a safe environment with highly experienced experts (VC’s, angels, successful founders & corporate execs) who are all focused on helping you to elevate your business to the next level

Week 3: Legal
* We cover all the important things you need to do to set-up your business the right way, and be legally ready for investor funding. Including: corporate formation, governance, fundraising issues, IP and commercial contracts overview.

Week 4: Business Modeling & Financials
* Typically one of the weakest area’s of a pitch - how you will make money and present your financials. We focus on what you need to do to build a profitable and sustainable business.

Week 5: Go-to-Market Strategy
* Typically the 2nd weakest area of a pitch - how will you get customers, keep them engaged/buying/using you, and then referring. We focus on building a culture of Sales & Marketing excellence

Week 6: Tech - Powered by Wizeline
* How do you build a tech company if you are not a technical founder or have a technical co-founder? We focus on the key elements required to build a successful tech business.

Week 7: Pitch Session 2
* After gaining more insight into what a successful tech biz looks like, we do a round 2 of the pitch session to a new panel of experts.

Week 8: Get Investor Ready
* In the final session we go deep into how to get investor ready and get funded.

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A SAMPLE OF THE EXPERTS INCLUDE:

Anibal Abarca | CTO @ Wizeline | Technologist, entrepreneur, and passionate about Mexico's startup ecosystem

Anita Gardyne | CEO & Co-Founder @ Onēva | TechCrunch Battlefield runner up

Anthony Kelani | CEO & Cofounder @ DNABLOCK | Founder @ Dark Horse Labs | Investor | TechCrunch Battlefield finalist | former Head of Microsoft for Startups in LA

Anton Borzov | Product Design at Neeva | ex @WhatsApp

Bismarck Lepe | CEO & Founder @ Wizeline | Previously founder of video platform Ooyala, sold to Telstra for $400M in 2014

Chuck Petitd | CEO @ Republic Crowdfunding Portal | Co-Producer Meet the Drapers | General Partner @ RainmakeMe

Emma Weston | Co-Founder & CEO @ AgriDigital | Agtech, Fintech, Blockchain Specialist | Angel Investor | Startup Mentor

Georgie Turner | Principal Investor @ Tidal Ventures, a seed stage VC fund based in Sydney and New York | background in banking and business development/sales

Kate Morris | Founder & Director @ Adore Beauty | Investor | sold 60% of Adore to Private Equity firm Quadrant | two-time winner Telstra Business Women’s Awards

Kate Vale | Co-Founder & GP @ a new early stage VC fund, investing in U.S. and Australian based female founders building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies | ex Managing Director AU/NZ @ Google, YouTube and Spotify

Lin Cherry | General Counsel @ Wizeline | Previously General Counsel @ HBO Latin America, DLA, Inc. (a subsidiary of América Móvil), and MySpace

Nancy Hayes | Active Angel Investor in Women-Led Companies | former Senior Exec @ IBM, non-profit and Academia | former Founder

Matt Savare | Partner @ Lowenstein Sandler - specializing in intellectual property and commercial contracts | Founder @ Fansmit

Meggie Palmer | Founder & CEO @ PepTalkHer | Contributing Author @ Vogue | former journalist for BBC World, CNBC, Discovery Channel, SBS Dateline | films have won New York Festival TV & Film Awards, UN Media Awards, a Walkley Award & been nominated for a Logie

Minnie Ingersoll | Partner @ TenOneTen Ventures a VC fund based in LA, actively investing in early stage tech companies | Host LA Ventures Podcast | Former COO & Co-Founder of Shift.com to IPO in 2020, and an early Product Manager @ Google.

Ron Arnold | Managing Director @ 11eight | former Managing Partner @ IAG Firemark Ventures & Exec @ AAMI | Investor

FACILITATOR:
Marisa Warren | Co-Founder & GP @ a new early stage VC fund, investing in U.S. and Australian based female founders building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies | Founder @ ELEVACAO | Speaker (ex SAP, Microsoft & Workday)

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Founded in New York, ELEVACAO is a global pre-accelerator empowering women founders to launch and grow successful tech businesses. Since launch, we’ve helped 150+ founders across the US and Australia prepare their businesses for investment funding (raising $50m+) and sustained growth.

In 2017, ELEVACAO partnered with TechCrunch to bring TechCrunch Battlefield to Australia for a 1 day 'mini disrupt' event. Approximately 500 people attended the event with more than 1 million viewing the livestream.

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IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
- Women tech founders. Must have a least 1 female founder in the founding team.
- Workshop location: Global and 100% virtual
- Application process: We review all applications on a rolling basis, shortlist companies for a 30 minute video chat, notify if accepted into the program. We also provide you feedback on why you didn’t make it into this program.
- Rolling acceptance of applications. You don't need to wait until the application close date to be interviewed and accepted into the program.
- A US$495 fee will be charged upon acceptance into the program. If your co-founder would like to attend any or all of the sessions they must pay a separate US$295 fee to confirm their place. Payment plans can be discussed.
- There is 1 full scholarship available per cohort for a pre-revenue/pre-funded startup. Note on your application if you would like to apply for the scholarship.
- We take your privacy very seriously. We will not share your personal information (such as your name, address or contact details) with any third party without your consent. We will not sell any information provided in this application. However, please note that ELEVACAO does not accept any obligations of confidentiality in relation to information submitted in this application or information that you provide to ELEVACAO during the Investor Ready Program. Do not submit any information in this application that you wish to keep confidential.

Our past entrepreneurs have told us, and the results prove, that ELEVACAO delivers significant value for our entrepreneurs who participate in our program, and as an alumni remaining connected to our network.

As a mission driven organization it is important for us to have sustainable revenue streams whilst also staying true to our mission. By participating in this program not only will learn the skills to help you confidently pitch for funding, but also the opportunity to pay it forward for future women entrepreneurs.