Dear Avant Now Community ❤️,
we began our journey in 2023, with the twin-vision of empowering impact innovators in building net-positive futures, while uplifting female founders and other underrepresented founders to their full potential. 💪
Although our company just completed its very own 1st birthday recently, we are excited to have already 9 impact-driven startups with us on our mission: Gibi , givingful, MINTD , Thread, Weavii, zoohub., Climate Trainers Die Helferei Kewano 🎉
These teams as well reflect our commitment to nurture diversity in the startup ecosystem, with 50% female founders and 80% founders with a diversity criteria! 💚
As these startups just started out on their journey to tackle societal and ecological challenges, we look so much forward on the joint journey ahead in 2024 and to what we all will achieve together! 💪
We are thankful for the support and collaboration with our advisors and partners who work side-by-side with us and enrich this ecosystem, and of course all our coaches, mentors and investors. 🌟
Looking ahead, we're filled with anticipation for what the next year brings. There will be 3 new cohorts, the launch of our event series #impactXmoney in collaboration with betahaus, the launch of our programs #RaiseFemale and #SucceedFemale and the ongoing co-creation of a nurturing environment for our growing accelerator community. 💜
The journey has only begun and we can't wait to see where our ideas and collective efforts will take us in 2024! 🔥
With gratitude,
The avant now Team
Kajarin Yotdam, Somaya Elbaz, Taja Lalic, Yash Das Sharma, Viktoria Trosien
Special thank you: Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin, Dr. Johanna Richter, Franka Birke, Dr. Daniela Mahr, Stiftung Entrepreneurship, Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe, Investitionsbank Berlin, Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH, Marcia Schranner, Christian Stigler, Norbert Herrmann, Kiez Büro Coworking, Björn Budack 💚 💜