Female Founder Circle
Nurturing and celebrating female founder growth.
Building a startup can be hard, especially without like-minded people around you. Add to that the unique challenges female founders face and you’ve got a need for a dedicated and intentional community.
Our intimate community comprises a hand-selected group of ambitious, early stage founders from all areas of industry, and a diverse range of backgrounds and life stages. As a collective, circle members create an environment for growth, nurturing and boundless opportunity creation.
The community you need
Having a community of like-minded women around you is invaluable. If you’re a revenue-generating female founder with less than $5mil ARR, our intimate community could be just right for you.
Women supporting women.
As much as we wish it weren’t so, we know that female founders experience a number of additional hurdles in starting a business. To be honest, we think this is pretty unacceptable. That’s where our tight knit and intimate community comes in - making introductions, opening doors and championing different perspectives.
Opening doors.
We’re here to ensure that women earlier in their startup journey get access to the same opportunities, even if they don’t have deep pockets or extensive professional networks. Why? Because when they do, they make damn good use of them. On average, funded women-led companies deliver 35% higher ROI & generate 10% more revenue.
Find your tribe.
Finding community in those who understand you is one of the most validating experiences. Our intimate group dinners, wellness offerings and supportive online community are the perfect places to develop deep and genuine relationships with women who get what its like to be on the crazy startup journey.
All the Deets
We are so proud to provide revenue-generating female founders with a safe space to share the ups and downs of founder life. Where deep friendships are made and scale up growth is passionately cultivated.
Members of our Female Founders Circle can expect to enjoy:
Quarterly community dinners to connect with our community of incredible women
Exclusive private mentoring with some of ANZ’s leading investors and operators from the likes of Culture Amp, TikTok, MYOB and many more.
Free access to all TSN’s digital education programs from sales mastery to brand building.
Tailored and dedicated support to help knock down doors and navigate growth
Direct connections to the cheque writers in Australia’s amazing startup investment community
Early access to TSN’s premiere events
All the other TSN membership benefits including tickets to community events, discounts and perks.
A word from our circle leaders
“We are so proud to provide female founders with a safe space to share the ups and downs of founder life. Where deep friendships are made and scale up growth is passionately cultivated.”
— Tracey Warren | F5 Collective CEO
“As the CEO of The Startup Network, I am acutely aware of the additional adversities faced by female founders in todays climate. If you are raising a fund or a family, doing neither or doing both. The FFC is for you in this moment, whatever that looks like”
— Vicki Stirling | The Startup Network CEO
Why Us?
We’re Australia’s largest independent startup community and believe it takes a village to build a startup. That’s why we bring together the best and brightest startup innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to support you on your journey.
I’m ready to fast track my growth with women who get me.
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