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Accelerators

Empower Start (female entrepreneurship supports)

Status

Usually opens in January and February and September

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
€15,000

Enterprise Ireland runs a family of female entrepreneurship supports (Empower Start, Level Up, Innovate) providing training, mentoring and in some strands a stipend or grant.

Funder

Enterprise Ireland

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Programme cohorts recruit once or twice a year.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Enterprise Ireland also ring-fences a female-founder strand within the Pre-Seed Start Fund.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/supports

Not yet re-checked against the official page — this record was extracted on 14 August 2026 and may be out of date. Check the source before you rely on it.

Source: www.enterprise-ireland.com

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