Betatron and Xessetials are teaming up to provide mentor 'office hours' for women entrepreneurs in a happy hour setting at the STUDIO in Central HK. The networking event is for both men and women in the startup scene, and attended by accelerator leaders, entrepreneurs and investors.
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Xessentials recently launched an incubator focused on industry agnostic, early stage women entrepreneurs in New York, and just wrapped up their first cohort of retail, consumer and ecommerce companies. They are currently taking applications for their next cohort which begins in February 2019. It's co-founder, Nora Peterson, '14 who lived in Singapore from 2014-2017 is returning to Asia for the remainder of the year and partnering with accelerators in Hong Kong and Singapore to bring focus and resources to women entrepreneurs in Asia.
Betatron acceleartor is similar to Xessentials in that they are focusing on pre-seed companies and want to help women founders succeed. The two are partnering together to host 'mentor office hours' for a select group (~10) of women founders in Hong Kong on Wednesdy 21st November as part of a larger networking/happy hour event. They are actively recruiting a few more mentors to help serve as mentors for the first hour of the event and meet one-on-one with 2-3 founders during that hour. They have also just started to promote the event for general attendess.