TiE Global’s AIRSWEEE announces additional funding by US State Department

NEW DELHI: TiE Global has launched two programs - AIRSWEEE Scale-Up Fellows and AIRSWEEE Global Fellows - at the 'Women Entrepreneurs Conclave 2.0 – Engaged and Empowered' event being held on October 22-23 in New Delhi. Led by 18 US businesswomen and entrepreneurs along with 13 of their Indian counterparts, the program provides a platform to share US business best practices with aspiring Indian women entrepreneurs.

"Economies where women have greater equality are those that thrive," said Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy, MaryKay Carlson. "To get there requires a strong, visible push to level the playing field," she adds.

AIRSWEEE has directly empowered 575 women entrepreneurs in over 125 Tier-II and Tier-III cities in 16 states of India.


“It is a widely known that startup strategies are very different from scale-up strategies," says Chairperson of Project AIRSWEEE and Managing Partner, Accelerator Group LLC, Seema Chaturvedi. "We are grateful to the US State Department for providing us with the funding support to grow the ecosystem by providing the mentoring support needed to succeed beyond the startup phase, so that our member can potentially become global leaders," she adds.

Funded by the US State Department, AIRSWEEE Scale-Up Fellows program will provide mentorship to 30 young, innovative women from across India to scale up their enterprises through hands-on industry mentorship.