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  Hanoi, 22 December 2020 – The Women’s Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship (WISE) has officially launched He Can, a campaign that promotes the idea that men can be more active in caring responsibilities, in the same manner that women can participate more in the economy. The campaign kicked off through the release of a recorded talk show with male role models including sports journalist Dinh Duc Hoang, entrepreneur Hoang Anh Tu, Film Director Nguyen Hoang Diep and twin vloggers Trung Anh and Viet Anh, more popularly known as Vlog1977. The campaign is supported by Investing In Women, an initiative of...

Hanoi, December 5th, 2020 - The Women's Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship (WISE) in collaboration with Facebook's #SheMeansBusiness program organizes a virtual event called Online Women Festival - Rise and Shine in the digital age. This is a non-profit event organized with the aim of supporting the female startups and entrepreneurs by connecting and bringing in sharing from guest speakers who are successful business women, business professionals, key opinion leaders in society. The event was livestreamed on WISE's Facebook page a (https://www.facebook.com/wisenets/) with a variety of activities including panel discussions, presentations, fire-side talks, and virtual trade fair participated by women-owned...

Ms. Hien Tu - Founder & CEO of WISE is honored to be the Vietnam Chapter Leader of WiSE24, to showcase amazing Vietnamese female founders to the world and connecting the world’s investors to promising startups in Vietnam. ---------- Hanoi, Vietnam, June 10, 2020 / -- Women's Startup Lab (WSLab), a Silicon Valley-based accelerator for women-led startups, will host its second annual WiSE24, "Women's International Showcase of Entrepreneurs," on June 18, 2020. The event, which will take place over 24 hours, will live stream startup pitches from 50 early-stage, women-led ventures in 10 regions around the world, including San Francisco, New York,...

WISE is proud to be one of four implementing partners under the IGNITE INITIATIVE: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS which is sponsored by Mastercard Impact Fund from 2020 – 2022. The IGNITE Initiative unleashes the power of women entrepreneurs in major urban and periurban centers of Vietnam. It increases their access to finance, technology, information, and entrepreneurial networks through collaboration among financial service providers (FSPs), business accelerators, and NGO partners. Vision The IGNITE Initiative ensures a landscape that promises. WISE, CARE, VP Bank and Canal Circle will work together to ensure a landscape that promises greater opportunity for women entrepreneurs,...

May 28th 2020 - WISE IS SO PROUD TO BE ONE OF EIGHT WINNERS under the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund (AWEF), out of more than 180 applicants across the globe. Overview At the 2019 ANDE Annual Conference, ANDE announced an exciting new partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative, and the Visa Foundation to launch the ANDE Gender Equality Initiative, which aims to support women entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The initiative’s first activity, the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund, will identify the best strategies to get investment capital into the hands of women entrepreneurs in...

On April 29th 2020, the online training workshop: Strategies for effective response to Covid-19 was conducted. This is the first session of the online training series that WISE cooperates with Facebook to organize from now until the end of 2020 with the aim of providing comprehensive support to the women startups and entrepreneurs community in Viet Nam to effectively response to the Covid-19's impact. The seminar was delivered by a communication expert cum businessman Hoang Anh Tu and a Facebook accredited trainer Nguyen Huy Hoang, with the active participation of the audience from many locations across Viet Nam with more than 600...

It is now widely recognised that achieving and sustaining any development outcome depends on the ability of multiple and interconnected actors – governments, civil society, the private sector, universities, individual entrepreneurs and others – to work together effectively. Each set of interconnected actors whose collective actions produce a particular development outcome is a local system (or ‘ecosystem’). Improving that development outcome therefore requires an ecosystems approach. Although innovation is a means to improving how development goals are achieved rather than an outcome in itself, the same principles apply. For innovative ideas to be efficiently generated, developed, tested and ultimately scaled...

Ho Chi Minh City, October 30th 2019 - 8 best female startups joined a Demo Day and Investor Pitching Event – the final round of the WISE Women Accelerator 2019 and pitched to a panel of prestigious investors who are from Vintech City, ESP, ADB Ventures, NextTech - Next 100, 500 Startups, Valhalla - Canada. As the final result, Smilee was the winning startup, receiving a prize of USD 10,000. With the goal of inspiring, supporting and promoting female founders to start their businesses and grow successfully, WISE Women Accelerator is the only startup acceleration program in Vietnam for women that...

Run your own business or social enterprise?  Interested in having one year of mentoring support from a global business executive? Keen to join a prestigious global network of women entrepreneurs? Passionate about working with a mentor to build your skills and confidence, and achieve key learning objectives? We invite you as a member of WISE's network to apply to become a Cherie Blair Foundation Mentee. The Mentoring Women in Business Programme provides personalised support to women entrepreneurs through online, cross-border mentoring. Starting in November 2019, you could work with a dedicated mentor two hours a month for one year to...