Calling all women-led tech startups! Join the 2025 Supernovas Rocket Up Activity!

The programme is divided into three parts:

1. Choose Your Market (Months 1-3): Participants work on identifying success factors in their home market, translating them into parameters to measure the potential for new markets, to finally understand their opportunities. This is done taking into account their customer needs, pricing, culture, regulation, competition, among others. Additionally, participants define and execute a validation strategy to corroborate their geographical markets expansion priorities.

   
   

2. Plan Your Strategy (Months 3-6): The programme reviews important factors for a successful expansion planning, such as product localisation, communication and marketing needs, distribution channels, differences in business cultures, talent recruitment and fundraising for international expansion. Start-ups learn how to define their successful entry strategy, understanding best practices in relation with partnerships in target market and defining an implementation plan.

Key Dates

• Applications Open: 10 February 2025
• Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
• Programme Start: 20 May 2025 (Kick-off in Rotterdam)
• Programme End: 18 November 2025 (Demo Day in Helsinki alongside the Slush Conference)

Eligibility and Fees

The 2025 programme will host 12 to 16 startups. Startups from outside Europe are required to cover the full programme fee. European startups may qualify for sponsorship based on their evaluation scores, with the top ten startups receiving 100% sponsorship.

How to Apply

Women founders eager to expand their ventures into Europe are encouraged to pre-register now and stay tuned for further updates. Apply here!

Don't miss this opportunity to scale your startup and make a mark in the European market!