Exciting news! Our founder, Catherine Ashton has been accepted into the Flying Fox Female Founders Program. Supported by Flying Fox Ventures and LaunchVic, a pre-accelerator program focused on female founders in Victoria.
Who are Flying Fox?
Flying Fox Ventures has over $30m of funds under management across over 50 early-stage companies. As a result of our investment efforts over the last 3.5 years, we’ve amassed a community of more than 100 founders in our portfolio and 450 investors.
They are on a mission to:
- Increase the number of female founders launching companies in Australia
- Increase the quality of female founded businesses to ultimately:
- Increase the number of deals into female founded businesses and increase the quantum of capital raised by female founders
What does it mean?
A 12 week structured training program for early-stage startup founders. A pre-accelerator programme provides early-stage startups with resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities. This will be followed by 6 months of mentoring.
