STATION F, the world’s largest startup campus based in Paris, announced today the launch of the third cohort of its Female Founders Fellowship, featuring 16 female entrepreneurs. The Female Founders Fellowship is STATION F’s program designed to accelerate success for exemplary female founders through dedicated support, workshops and mentoring. Each year, 15-20 high potential female-founded startups from STATION F are selected to join this 6-month program with the objective of empowering their founders.

“The ecosystem is still slowly changing on highlighting and funding female-founded companies. Since the first edition, the Female Founders Fellowship is our way to provide as much support as possible to high-potential female-founders to create role-models in different sectors and industries that will inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs”, said Marwan Elfitesse, Head of Startup Programs & Services at STATION F.

With diversity at the core of STATION F’s mission since day one, the campus now welcomes 45% of female-founded companies among the 1.000+ startups gathered at STATION F. For the second year in a row, STATION F is partnering with Goldman Sachs’s Launch With GS initiative to help with the development of the program and provide the Female Founders Fellowship with additional resources.

“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with STATION F for the Female Founders Fellowship this year. STATION F’s commitment to empowering female founders in Europe creates more opportunity for women within the venture capital ecosystem. Through this partnership, we look forward to working with these incredible founders as they grow their companies”, said Seun Toye Kayode Vice President and EMEA Head of Launch With GS.

Discover the members of our 2022 cohort:

Sophia Alj, co-founder of Chari (Founders Program):

Chari is an e-commerce app helping small retailers in the French Speaking Africa procure inventory for their stores and getting delivered for free on the next day.

Clarisse Hagege, co-founder of DFNS (Founders Program):

Dfns is a security suite for crypto custody.

Hajer Gorgi, co-founder of Flitter (Moove Lab):

Flitter is a pay-as-you-go car insurance.

Katia Kuseke & Noëlla Ligan, co-founders of Fresh Afrika (Fighters Program):

Fresh Afrika builds sustainable, fair, and equitable fruit and vegetable chains in sub-Saharan Africa with traceability from seed to plate (blockchain).

Irina Agafonova, co-founder of Game Academy (Ubisoft):

Game Academy is a platform for soft skills assessment and training in games and virtual worlds.

Emma Butler, founder of Intimately (Founders Program):

Intimately is the one stop shop for adaptive clothing for the 600+ million disabled people. Intimately is also a community where disabled women can chat about love, sex, fashion and more

Amélie Quilichini, co-founder of Kolibri (Entrepreneur First & Arts et Métiers):

Kolibri is a proprietary cell-engineering platform, combining cutting edge techniques in acoustics and biology, for partners in drug discovery and development, allowing for a 20x higher yield while increasing gene therapy quality.

Hyojeong Kim, founder of Nomadher (Founders Program):

NomadHer is an app for female globetrotters from 175 different nationalities. Nomadher encourages women to travel solo by helping them to find another female traveller companion and step out of their comfort zone. Think of it as a Bumble for female travellers.

Adèle James, co-founder of Phagos (Entrepreneur First & HEC):

Using bacteria's natural predator, the bacteriophage, Phagos is able to overcome incurable and deadly infectious diseases. If appropriately channeled, bacteriophages can constitute an efficient and sustainable alternative to antibiotics. But this is just a fraction of their potential.

Camille Bouget, co-founder of Scienta Lab (21st by CentraleSupélec):

AI-powered solutions for medical research on auto-immune diseases. At Scienta Lab, they are harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence to seize the biggest challenges in immunology today. With cutting-edge datasets, breakthrough capabilities in machine learning, and world-class scientific collaborations, we are building a library of groundbreaking predictive algorithms.

Salma Bakouk, co-founder of Sifflet (Founders Program):

Sifflet is a data observability platform designed to reduce data downtime and optimise data based decision making.

Delphine Lau, co-founder of Stooly (HEC):

Stooly creates ultra-resistant honeycomb cardboard furniture that folds and unfolds to go from closet to living room in an instant.

Victoria Duben, founder of Viewst (Havas):

Viewst is bridging the gap between creative and media teams in the digital ad space. It enables campaign managers, designers, marketers to collaborate in a cloud, scale ad versioning, streamline approvals, keep all assets in one place and organized and as a result to go live faster.

Amicie Monclar, co-founder of Zephalto (HEC):

Zephalto develops a balloon capable of taking passengers to the stratosphere level. Named Céleste, the balloon is eco-friendly, runs on solar energy and can be reused indefinitely.

Ava Cavaglione, co-founder of Shary (Founders Program):

Shary is a platform to invest in fractional shares of Real Estate starting with 5€ and in 2 minutes. The team combines its institutional experience with innovative technologies to empower investors through direct access, greater transparency, lower fees and greater flexibility.

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