WEPAN Accelerator

The WEPAN Accelerator, funded through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)’s Growth Accelerator Fund Competition, will provide entrepreneurial education and support to a diversity of women in engineering and work with key stakeholders to create inclusive and socially equitable entrepreneurship ecosystems. The only accelerator that takes an intersectional feminist approach to supporting women in engineering ventures, WEPAN will support four cohorts of women engineering entrepreneurs through a two-day program, including pitch events, an SBIR/STTR workshop, a HUBZone (an SBA program for small companies that operate and employ people in Historically Under-utilized Business Zones) workshop, and ongoing mentoring support from advisory boards and alumnae networks.