Announcing Atto Aspire Pre- Accelerator 2022’s batch
In early 2022, our brand-new pre-accelerator program, Atto Aspire, was open for applications from early-stage founders. We were looking for female founders with big ambitions to create a tech startup and who wanted support to make their idea a reality.
The 8-week online program kicked off in early March and we’ll celebrate each founder at our internal showcase in late April. Like all our Atto programs, we also have world-class educators joining us to share knowledge with our founders.
Each year we run our programs, we get more impressed with the quality of the applications, the founders’ previous experience, and the big ideas they have to solve global problems. Almost every founder who applied was suitable for the Aspire program and it was hard to narrow down the founders who were accepted into the batch.
We are excited to welcome 18 female founders from 14 startups into the Atto Aspire Pre-Accelerator 2022 program!
With backing from LaunchVic and our HQ being hosted in Victoria, Atto has a strong community in the state. Just over half of our applications were from women in Victoria, and three-quarters of the applications were from around Australia. Our global reach is expanding as 20% of applications for this program were from overseas. It was the first time we’ve had applications from Mexico and Ukraine, with a few from the USA.
At Atto, we support women with big ideas who want to solve problems with technology. Like all the Atto alumni founders, in 2022 these founders are trying to solve big problems. The Aspire founders are working on solutions for mental health, sustainability, education, the future of work, and more.
Meet the Atto Aspire Pre-Accelerator 2022 founders:
Aditi Basu & Krittika Singh - KUL
Catherine Roncon-Trivett - LeCloset
Cindianne Slorach - TBC
Eve France & Kate Garbis - Green Office Co.
Gunjan Bhardwaj - TBC
Kat Loughrey - TBC
Maya Lester - TBC
Sarah Chapman - Sorta Systems
Shandra Cohen - Club Hive
We’ll be sharing their company names and URLs at the end of the program. Congrats once again!
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