{"id":44915,"date":"2023-10-20T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/girl-geek-academy-overcomes-rejection-with-1-3-million-to-build-worlds-leading-startup-destination-for-women-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:39:35","slug":"girl-geek-academy-overcomes-rejection-with-1-3-million-to-build-worlds-leading-startup-destination-for-women-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/girl-geek-academy-overcomes-rejection-with-1-3-million-to-build-worlds-leading-startup-destination-for-women-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Geek Academy overcomes rejection with $1.3 million to build world\u2019s leading startup destination for women – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Girl Geek Academy has raised $1 million of in-kind investment from supporters across the startup sector including GO1.<\/p>\n
The investment comes at the same time as the academy locks in $300,000 in grant funding<\/a> from the Victorian Government’s LaunchVic.<\/p>\n Since 2014, Sarah Moran and her team have been running women-focused hackathons, workshops and events to help address the lack of gender diversity across the tech and startup sectors.<\/p>\n Despite failing to capture the imagination of Advance Queensland, the group will now set up a \u201cworld-first\u201d state-wide startup hackathon program for women in Victoria.<\/p>\n