US Women in Tech 2026 Accelerator

The US Women in Tech 26 Accelerator, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Foundation (the Foundation), was designed to empower 10-12 women-led, impact-creating, tech-enabled startups to scale their solutions, create jobs, and drive economic mobility nationwide.

Purpose: Empower women-identifying founders to scale solutions advancing economic mobility and equitable access to essential services. Focus Areas:

• Affordable healthcare and wellness
• Care worker empowerment
• Community-integrated solutions
• Education access and quality
• Employment pathways and upskilling
• Financial literacy and resilience
• Generational wealth-building for underserved communities Program Components:
• Financial analysis coaching
• Milestone development plan (investment readiness)
• Peer-to-peer learning and evaluation
• Mentorship and networking with investors and partners

• Must be a US-based, legally registered, for-profit business with fewer than 10 employees.
• Must be led by at least one full-time founder who identifies as a woman (cisgender, transgender, or non-binary).
• Must be revenue-generating with less than $100K annual revenue.
• Must have a minimum viable product (MVP) and raised less than $1.5M in equity.
• Must demonstrate customer or business validation (pilot studies, users, partnerships).
• Must be tech-based or tech-enabled and address economic mobility or access to essential services.