The US Women in Tech 26 Accelerator, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Foundation (the Foundation), is designed to empower 10-12 women-led, impact-creating, tech-enabled startups to scale their solutions, create jobs, and drive economic mobility nationwide.
Donor Name: Village Capital
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/30/2026
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The main goal of the program is to identify and work with underserved impact-focused startups to help them scale their businesses and impact.
The program is designed to help startups identify early milestones and prepare for their next capital raise (if relevant). In short, through virtual and in-person workshops, they deliver a targeted, award-winning curriculum and provide countless connections to prepare startups for growth.
Benefits
- Financial Analysis
- Access to 1:1 coaching with an investment analyst focused on building a financial model and financial narratives.
- Grant Capital
- Two (2) startups will be selected by their peers to receive USD 25K in grant capital to further scale their solutions.
- Mentorship and Networking
- Engage in opportunities to network and receive mentorship from investors, strategic partners, founders, and business leaders.
- Milestone Development Plan
- Create a personalized milestone development plan for investment readiness, growth, and impact, using VilCap’s online milestone-tracking tool.
- Peer-to-Peer Learning and Evaluation
- Access to Village Capital’s signature approach to shifting power dynamics in investment decisions by placing entrepreneurs at the center of the due diligence process.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a legally registered, US-based, for-profit business with fewer than ten employees.
- Be led by at least one full-time founder who identifies as a woman, including cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals.
- Be revenue-generating with less than USD 100K in annual revenue.
- Have meaningful customer or business validation (not limited to revenue; it can also be successful pilot studies, number of users, and/or strategic partnerships).
- Have a minimum viable product (MVP) and raised less than USD 1.5M in equity.
- Be tech-based or tech-enabled and address one economic mobility and/or access to essential services in the following areas:
- Increase access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, wellness resources, and critical medicines.
- Equip and connect care workers to provide higher-quality care and increase access to care.
- Amplify and strengthen community-integrated solutions.
- Create innovations in education that expand access and increase quality.
- Broaden accessibility to essential services for marginalized and under-resourced communities.
- Reduce barriers to employment and career advancement by creating new pathways, offering training and upskilling opportunities, and building professional networks.
- Empower individuals, families, and underserved communities to increase financial literacy, build financial resilience, and long-term stability by improving access to essential financial services.
- Advance economic mobility for low-income or other underserved communities by building generational wealth through career advancement, home ownership, and/or savings and investment opportunities.
- Create access to essential services that unlock economic opportunity.
For more information, visit Village Capital.
