A warm invitation to the “Female Founders FINANCING Forum” on March 20, 2024 at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart.

March 2024
The face-to-face event as part of the state Start-up BW campaign will be held at 11.00 a.m. by Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism of Baden-Württemberg, opened the event. Admission is from 10.30 a.m. Anyone interested is warmly invited and can register for the last places easily and free of charge eveeno ticketing
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To create a platform for the investment and banking world, for female founders and their innovations and for the start-up ecosystems. This is intended to show the diversity of different ideas, approaches and offers for female financing/female investing, to initiate the transfer of know-how among those working in the topic area or those affected by it, and to develop perspectives for the future through dialogue - that is the intention of the Female Founders FINANCING Forum on December 20th March in Stuttgart.

Alma Spribille, founder and managing director of WeTell GmbH and board member of the Federal Association for Sustainable Business, will provide exciting insights with a view to women-led start-ups and sustainability in her keynote speech “Female Start-ups and the Love of Money”. Female founders with innovative business ideas and their financing have their say at the practical start-up talk. Included are: Maike Lambarth from Cyclize GmbH, Ines Würth from enerlace and Sabrina Hellstern and Claudia Sodha from Hellstern Medical.

Inspiring impulse statements from experts in Baden-Württemberg and from outside such as L-Bank, WeiberWirtschaft, Sparkassenverband, Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Bundesverband Crowdfunding, Goldrausch and the Association of German Entrepreneurs provide insights into the current discourse.

Three parallel invest & connect idea sessions #MindBlowing: Barcamp for female founders and their financing, #MindSet: good practice examples from the start-up ecosystems and #MindShift perspective from financiers and investors are all about dialogue. Founders as well as experts knowledgeable in the subject area come together to examine the relevant aspects together and to open up new perspectives.

The focus of the exciting program is 'invest & connect': between start-up talks, keynotes, the impulse statements and the invest & connect idea sessions with the Barcamp for female founders, the examples from the start-up ecosystems and the perspectives of the financiers and Investors have room for exchange, dialogue and networking for all participants during breaks and get-togethers.

      The Female Founders FINANCING Forum is moderated by Anja Lange. Here is the program at a glance:


      • Opening by Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism Baden-Württemberg

      • Keynote by Alma Spribille, Managing Director of WeTell

      • Start-up talk with three female founders

      • Impulse statements from the perspective of the investment and banking world

      • Lunch break

      • Keynote by Dr. Georg Metzger, KfW Research: Start-ups, KfW Start-up Monitor, Venture Capital

      • Three parallel invest & connect idea sessions:  MindBlowing: Barcamp founders and their financing | Mindset:Good practice examples from start-up ecosystems | MindShift: Perspective of financiers and investors | Among those taking part are Sonja Wilkens (Next Mannheim), Konrad Pfister (Smart Green Accelerator Freiburg), Ulrike Hudelmaier (TFU, Accelerator Creative Energy Quantum Leap) and Nora Röttele (Arise Accelerator, Baden-Campus, Breisach).

      • Sum-up and outlook: Start-up BW Female Accelerator

      • Get Together

You can find more information about female founders, entrepreneurs and start-ups run by women at www.startupbw.de
 im Founders area.
About start-up BW Women:
With Start-up BW Women, a focus tailored to female founders, female start-ups and entrepreneurs was created as part of the Start-up Baden-Württemberg state campaign. In the canon of supporting female founders, the Start-up BW Female Accelerator, whose kick-off took place on January 29, 2024 in Stuttgart, an important link and acts as a central contact point for the overall coordination of this important cross-sectional issue. The start-up BW Accelerator brings together the offers available in Baden-Württemberg that are aimed directly at female founders and their stakeholders, identifies best practice, creates synergies and further develops female founders. The Female Founders Financing Forum is another event as part of Start-up BW Women.
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