WIM: Startup Program for Women in Tech

Women in Wireless is proud to announce a partnership with Jumpthru to create a women-based accelerator for innovations related to mobile technology.  Applications are being accepted from start-ups with at least one woman-founder or co-founder.  The accelerator will offer two to five start-ups free New York office space, mentoring and coaching, access to venture capitalists and other investors in addition to $18,000 in seed funding, $10,000 worth of product development and design support, and $10,000 worth of mobile marketing promotions.

For more information see our media coverage from the  Wall Street Journal here and  TechCrunch here ***please first read: disclaimer from Veronika Sonsev, Founder of WiW & WIM:

It’s unfortunate that the headline TechCrunch chose for this article spurred so much confusion. The WIM Accelerator was founded to encourage more women entrepreneurs. We actually don’t exclude men from our program. Our requirements are simple: must be a tech company, team must have 1 woman founder and the business has to have a mobile application. We think diverse teams result in stronger companies and we made that part of our criteria. Just like most accelerators require teams with tech-cofounders.

We think the fact that most accelerators are skewed so heavily male, discourages women to apply. Eric Reiss mentioned this issue in his recent TechCrunch article on Racism and Meritocracy.  It is our sincere hope that WIM adds our amazing tech community. Happy Holidays!