Women in Cloud and Accenture Join Forces: Launching Third -Year B2B Coaching Program to Propel Female Tech Founders into Billion-Dollar Markets

Women in Cloud (WIC) and Accenture have joined forces to deliver a groundbreaking B2B coaching program designed specifically for women tech founders. This world-class program aims to help female entrepreneurs break into enterprise opportunities and accelerate their growth in the industry.

?The program targets B2B tech female founders with a minimum of 2 years in business and at least one successful pilot. Eligible participants must have a SaaS tech solution built on Cloud Hyperscaler infrastructure such as Microsoft Cloud, AWS, or Google Cloud. Plus open to invest in cosell-led GTM activities to capture market share with Accenture and others.

Over 3 months, participants will commit 10 hours to the program, including 2 hours in meetings and 5+ hours in coaching sessions. Throughout the program, B2B Women Tech Founders will:

• Explore industry alignments, product fit, Go-to-market, and technology roadmaps.
• Build relationships with industry leaders.
• Provide feedback and ideas to improve the program.
• Attend mandatory kickoff, closing, and check-in sessions led by Women in Cloud and Accenture (max of 1.5 hours over 3 months).

This innovative coaching program pairs female founders with Accenture executives and their customers, offering unparalleled industry-leading support.?

“Our Accenture leaders truly value the experience of serving as mentors in the Women in Cloud Coaching Program. The opportunity it provides to founders is incredible and allows them to tap into Accenture’s breadth and depth across industries and technologies, but this program equally gives to our Accenture leaders. Our mentors learn and gain wonderful perspectives from the founders as well, and many of these relationships grow and continue past the end of the program. We are privileged to be a partner with WIC on this” - Emily Rose Miller , Global Technology Senior Manager, Accenture.

With B2B Women Tech founders strategically matched with Accenture Executives whose expertise aligns with their unique industry experience and business needs, this program is the ultimate tool to take your business to the next level and unlocks access to funding such as Microsoft Partner Capital Fund, Founder First Capital Partners, Mastersfund, Women's Venture Summit and others.

The program has already delivered valuable insights to entrepreneurs, with Accenture mentors focusing on refining product-market fit, developing industry partnerships, and finding and acquiring customers. The collaboration also allows Accenture to explore opportunities to adopt emerging technologies and provide strategic co-market and co-sell insights.

“This program sharpened my enterprise selling skills. We launched our enterprise-ready solution 6-weeks ago. Getting in front of senior-level decision-makers for high-value opportunities and pitching is critical in the early stage so we can correct them quickly and reduce the churn of enterprise contacts. The feedback on presentation flow, product demo, and how to pre-empt data privacy concerns was invaluable. It allowed us to secure an account and ensured we wouldn't burn through leads/accounts -- that's a very expensive problem and every founder's worst nightmare.” -? Lisa Ann Edwards , CEO Excelia

What's In It For You:

• 3 Months Immersive Coaching Program (Sep to November 2024)
• Explore Industry Alignments, Product Fit, Go-To-Market Plays and Technology Roadmap
• Build Relationships with Industry Leaders
• Commit 10 hours over 3 months to this program (2hrs in kickoff and closing sessions, 8+ hours in coaching sessions)
• Zero scheduling hassle. Show up for facilitated networking meetings.
• Invitation to participate in co-branding opportunities

What is the schedule for this program?

• Open House: September 13th, 2024 – 9:30 am PST
• Last Call to Signup: September 25,2024 – 6:30 pm PST
• Kickoff and Get to Know each other: October 4, 2024 – 10:00 am PST
• Scheduled Session1: Product & Industry Fit: October 25, 2024 – 10:00 am PST
• Scheduled Session2: Product & Industry Fit: November 8, 2024 – 11:00 am PST
• Scheduled Session3: Technology Roadmap: November 22, 2024 – 12:00 pm PST
• Scheduled Session4: GTM and Co launches: December 6, 2024 – 11:00 pm PST
• Closing: December 19, 2024 – 10:00 pm PST

What is the Process?

• Submit WIC Founder Application?which takes 15 to 25 minutes.?
• Once you are qualified, you will be required to process nominal one-time operational fees of $295 plus stripe fees.?
• Then, you will be invited to participate in the B2B Coaching Program for 3 months.?
• Last Date to Signup : Sep25th, 2024

To know more about the program visit the B2B Founder Coaching Program Page.