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Funding for QLD female founded businesses undertaking a new pre-seed or seed capital raise
Female Founders Co-Investment Fund QLD
This program provides funding to female founded businesses to help them scale and build business capacity.
Open
Application detail:
Applications will remain open until all funds have been allocated.
What do you get?
Funding of between $50,000 and $200,000.
Who is this for?
QLD female founded businesses.
Overview
This program aims to:
- support Queensland-based female founders to close early-stage investment rounds leveraging Government backing
- support QLD female founders to grow their innovative businesses across a wide range of industries
- increase the number of female founders participating in the QLD innovation ecosystem
- help to grow an investment pipeline for female founded businesses.
The female founder should have:
- an investment plan to approach new eligible investment entities within the next six months OR have already secured an offer of investment from an eligible investment entity
- a clear innovation focus
- a product/service beyond proof of concept
- an established business plan and growth plan covering the next 12 months
- a plan to use the funding to scale their business.
Check if you can apply
To be eligible, you must:
- be a business headquartered in Queensland (operating and having its head office located in Queensland)
- have an active Australian business number (ABN) and be registered for GST
- be majority female owned: have at least 51% of shares held by a woman/women (at least six months before application)
- be female led: have at least one primary executive decision-making position held by a woman (at least six months before application), e.g. Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer
- have no more than 50 full-time-equivalent employees
- not be a subsidiary of a group of companies that has more than 50 full-time-equivalent employees in total
- not have received investment through previous capital raises totalling more than $500,000.
Apply now
Apply for the Female Founders Co-Investment Fund QLD
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