F-LANE is a five-week virtual acceleration programme for early-stage entrepreneurs with ambitious outcomes to drive change by empowering women. It is put into practice by the Vodafone Institute in cooperation with our partners Yunus Social Business. Yunus Social Business was founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and has successfully implemented just shy of 20 accelerator programmes. These programmes tap into their global community of over 300 experienced and renowned mentors to help entrepreneurs deliver consistent impact and their professional dreams. The F-LANE founding partners Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA) in Munich support the programme with their excellent impact entrepreneurship competencies, while the Impact Hub Berlin, as Community Partner, provides participating start-ups with access to the global impact community and investors. Furthermore, WLOUNGE, as a new partner to the FLANE network, contributes its expertise in gender lens investing and it’s local and global investors and mentors network to support the cohort.