ABOUT THE PROGRAM
WE Hub in partnership with the Australian Consulate General, Chennai is implementing a pre-incubation program for nascent entrepreneurs aiming to establish an enterprise. The 12-week program will provide the required tools for entrepreneurs to translate their ideas into sustainable business models.
Objective:
To mitigate the drop off rate and to reduced percentage of women entrepreneurs hesitating to enter entrepreneurship, a pre incubation program is being proposed. Pre-incubator is a risk-reduced environment where entrepreneurial ideas are pre-filtered for market viability thus helping to avoid greater costs and failures of setting up new company in the further phases of business development. The program will play a key role in providing different forms of assistance to nascent entrepreneurs in the idea development stages.
HOW WE HELP OUR ENTERPRISES
Our work is primarily in the fields of providing access to technical, financial, government and policy support required to enterprise, scale up and accelerate with global market access, to all women entrepreneurs in the country
Business Acceleration Training
Mentorship
Access To Network
Facilitating Credit Linkages
Product Market Fit
Increased Market Linkages
Enabling Statutory Compliances
Sector Exposure Visit
COHORT – 2
“UPsurge” is a 3 month pre-incubation program that focuses on inculcating the knowledge of entrepreneurship and assisting aspiring entrepreneurs in developing their business models
September 2021 – October 2021
Call for Applications
November 2021 – February 2022
Program Launch
Cohort 2 is expected to be launched with 60 aspiring entrepreneurs.
March 2022
Graduation
Graduation of 2nd Cohort of entrepreneurs in the pre-incubation program
Applicant Profile
- 1. Ideas from women-led teams only will be supported meaning the women entrepreneur must be the 51% stakeholder in the company.
- 2. The applicant should have a new idea, aiming to solve an existing problem, and be marketable.
- 3. This program supports only entrepreneurial projects and not enterprises that have been registered.