A SOCIAL INITIATIVE BY HER VENTURE HUB
Global HERGlobal Market Entry Strategy for Women Founders
Fostering opportunities, leadership, and decision-making for access to Global Markets.
A strategic initiative designed to empower women entrepreneurs and leaders to thrive in global markets. It offers specialized programs, international trade missions, and networking opportunities at a global level. Participants gain leadership and skills training tailored for navigating global complexities, enabling them to scale their ventures and succeed.
We put our network, expertise and strategic positioning to work alongside women founders and leaders across Europe, the US, Africa and the Middle East. We show up as partners and facilitators, not only as service providers, to open doors to markets, investors and the rooms where decisions get made. The gap is not talent, it is access. Global HER exists to close it.
Why this exists
Not a talent gap. An access gap.
Women launch faster and run more capital-efficient businesses. Yet they receive a fraction of the funding, credibility and market access needed to scale globally. Global deals run through relationships built over years of events, introductions and insider circles. Circles where women are systematically locked out. The numbers below aren't a talent, pipeline or preparation gap. They're an access gap.
- $935K vs $2.1M
- average raise for female-led vs male-led startups, less than 1/2 of money raised
- 7 vs 5 months
- average fundraising timeline, for women vs men in similar markets and conditions
- ~$6 trillion
- in new global economic output if women started and scaled at same rate as men
- 82%
- of venture deals happen through warm introductions; women are 38% less likely to have those connections.
- 30%
- increase in business success rate for founders with strategic networks and mentorship, versus those without.
- 2.3x
- more risk-focused questions asked of female founders vs male founders, costing roughly $3.8M less raised per question.
Multiple sources, 2024/25
Multiple sources
GEM / World Bank / WEF
Founders Forum, 2025
World Bank
Kanze et al., 2018
OUR TWO PATHS
We deliver a solution in two paths
One prepares you. One puts you in the insider circle.
Together they turn global ambition into signed deals.
PATH 01
HER Global Acceleration
A 3-month tailored retainer built around the market you want to enter and what you need to get there. We work alongside you and, most of all, on your behalf in its ecosystems at high-level networks. It prepares you before a mission and supports you during and after.
Market Readiness
Structured guidance on how to enter, position and show up with credibility, market know-how, commercial strategy, stakeholder expectations, and a pitch full of real gravitas.
Market Activation
We actively map and activate the right contacts on your behalf, partner alignment, commercial introductions, 1 on 1 investor pitch set-ups, and access to major events of relevance.
PATH 02
HER Global Adventure
In-market missions where the Program materialises. You don't arrive to explore, you arrive ready to close deals, with an agenda structured in advance by our team, partners and local network. Open to market-ready women founders, selected through the MRL diagnostic.
Female-only by design
Women do business as a united front, paired as partners, backed by institutional relationships that signal serious commercial intent.
Flagship editions
UAE 2023 (Delivered) · UAE December 2026 (In preparation) · KSA 2027 (In planning) · USA 2027 (In planning). All missions are timed alongside world-class tech, AI and startup events.
For female-founder startups seeking investment, our partner RaiseTalks integrates verified data rooms, pitch readiness and closed-door investor access into both our acceleration program and global missions. Getting you "Ready to Raise", even before you arrive! Learn more about RaiseTalks Trust
In Acceleration
Verified data room, sharp narrative and investor-ready numbers before you go to market. Supported by 1-on-1 investment readiness advisory.
In Adventure
Curated 1-on-1 investor pitches during missions, backed by including a 1 year subscription with post-mission follow through.
Free Diagnostic · No Account Needed
Are you ready for Global Markets?
Take our proprietary diagnostic, the Market Readiness Level (MRL), and get an honest read on where your venture stands and what to strengthen.
Step 01
Answer a structured intake about your venture, traction and target markets.
Step 02
Receive your BRL, VRL, TRL and MRL scores with a plain-English readout report.
Step 03
Get a recommendation tailored to your needs for next move toward global markets.
Takes ~15 minutes · Free · GDPR compliant
Want to know where our profit goes?
Women are estimated to reinvest up to 90% of their income into their families, communities, and into others (Source: World Bank / World Economic Forum). We built HER Venture HUB the same way: to reinvest, not extract. 90% of our profit is reinvested into our social initiatives. This is our social pledge. As an impact-first social enterprise bootstrapped and run on a social economy model, we keep operations lean so more goes back into our impact. This is our enterprise ethos. And that is how we do the right thing and the smart thing.