Norway as Female Tech Founder Frontrunner
A top-rated international accelerator programme
Helping ambitious female and non-binary founders in Norway scale and expand their tech businesses internationally – fast.
What is the Norway as Female Tech Founder Frontrunner programme?
Tech Nordic Advocates’ international accelerator programme – proven across the Nordics – will give you the know-how, tools, connections and confidence you need to take your startup to the next level. As well as a successful international scaleup school, expert 1:1 coaching and hands-on support, you’ll also get access to a powerful global network of tech entrepreneurs, investors and partners.
300
female and non-binary startup founders helped so far
60%
of programme participants have expanded internationally
4.2/5
star rating from our alumni
Why do we need this programme?
Norway is bottom of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) average for female entrepreneurship for women between 18 and 64.
Only 0.7% of venture capital is invested in female-led startups.
We’re here to fix that
By giving female and non-binary founders the support, mentoring and connectionsthey need to grow and scale their tech businesses
How does it work?
We’re offering 30 female or non-binary founders or C-level leaders of tech companies with demonstrated scaleup and international expansion potential, based in Norway the unique opportunity to join this successful international accelerator programme. You’ll need to have:
Revenue or (at a minimum) moved beyond minimum viable product (MVP) stage and can point to projected revenue and revenue growth
Ambitions to scale and expand internationally
Value support to scale and expand internationally
The programme in detail
It all starts with a 2 x 2 day, i.e. four-day bootcamp over 2 weeks. If you’re successful at showing the Day 4 judges that you have scaleup and international expansion potential, you’ll move on to the five-month international accelerator.
On average, at least 85% of bootcamp participants go through to the international accelerator. At the 2024 Oslo programme, the judges sent everyone through.
Part 1: Cohort 1 - Early January 2026
The bootcamp
We’ve designed our bootcamp to “inspire, push and select” – help you to think bigger and move faster and help us choose participants for the programme at the right stage to ensure they benefit from the programme.
The bootcamp will run across Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim and Bergen, it’s two days a week over two weeks.
Part 2: Cohort 1 - Mid-January to mid-June 2026
The International Accelerator
The five-month international accelerator is made up of four structured learning sprints, designed to help you grow your business with confidence.
The format of the four learning sprints includes:
interactive workshops, case studies and coaching
peer-to-peer support groups
demo days, pitch and networking events
collaboration with international embassies, partners and accelerators
trade missions to key markets like the UK, US and Canada
interactions with our global women-in-tech community
introductions to potential investors, clients and global industry leaders through the Global Tech Advocates’ network of 48 global tech hubs and 30,000 tech leaders
At the end of the accelerator, you will submit a scaleup and international expansion plan for your business. The international accelerator programme will give you the content you need for that.
How much does it cost?
Thanks to our partners and Tech Nordic Advocates, you’ll only need to pay a small fee of 8,000 NOK.That’s to cover our admin costs.
register
Thank you to our partners
We couldn’t run this programme without the support of our fantastic partners.
