AccelerateHER Awards 2021 | Investing Women | 25 March 2021 |

The AccelerateHER Awards are a celebration of female founders and their potential to grow their companies and scale internationally. Now in their sixth year, the awards have provided a springboard to growth for finalists and winners by opening doors to new connections and opportunities through the global AccelerateHER network.

Previous AccelerateHER Award winners have accessed incredible top-level market building missions to California, New York, Boston, Berlin and Dubai – resulting in new investment leads, extensive new business and a much extended network of top industry leaders and finance community ‘movers and shakers’.

One winner from each category will receive a mentoring package from Investing Women Angels, sponsored by Barclays, and get the opportunity to take part in one of our international market building Missions* to Europe, North America or the Middle East. Winners will become part of the AccelerateHER network and benefit from priceless connections, industry contacts, learning and potential funders.

What are the AccelerateHER Awards Categories?

• Medtech and Science
Medical devices, cures for infectious diseases and life changing health management apps are just some of the ideas we would expect to see in this category. We are looking for businesses with life changing innovations for humans or animals.

• FinTech and Cybersecurity
Do you have a platform that will change the face of banking and wider financial services? Have you developed a tool that will protect the most vulnerable of data from hackers? Then this category is for you.

• CleanTech and Climate
Is your company using technology to provide answers to the climate crisis? Are you reducing emissions, offering an alternative to plastic, developing a sustainable transport solution? If your business is looking after our planet, enter this category.

• Disruptive Innovation
If you don’t fit into one of the other 3 categories but you have a technology or service innovation that is set to disrupt your sector, then this category is for you.

2021 Partners

PARTNERS:
• Scottish Government
• CGI
• Venture Barclay
• Can Do Scotland

RISING STAR PARTNERS:
• Aberdein Considine
• Purpose HR