Who is eligible to apply?
The 2024-2025 WBL Fellows Program cohort is open for women founders, co-founders, or CEOs of healthcare start-ups. The WBL Fellows Program is the next stage for your business after business incubation, initial funding rounds, and early stage “more traditional” business accelerators.
To be eligible for the WBL Fellows Program, a company must:
Be privately owned, no later than Series B
Be founded, co-founded, or led by a woman
Have a product on the market or ready for market that is solving a current challenge in the healthcare and life sciences industry in a new, unique, and perhaps a disruptive way. Consistent with WBL’s mission to improve the industry, priority is given to companies that are improving healthcare and directly changing the lives of patients.
Company is funded and financially viable through at least April 2025.
Be positioned to benefit from outside advisory, board, networking introductions, or other assistance that WBL members can provide. This almost always includes being at the stage and sophistication of being ready for, or having, a corporate board.
Priority will be given to existing WBL members who apply.
2024-2025 WBL FELLOWS PROGRAM TIMELINE
2024
April 18: Application launch
May 17: Application window closes at 6 pm ET
May and June: Applicant review and Selection Committee virtual interviews
End of June: 2nd Cohort Announcement
October: Program Kick-off - Virtual
October 20: Orientation - In-person - Las Vegas
October 21: HLTH Reception - In-person - Las Vegas
Fall and Winter: Mentoring and advising interactions begin
2025
January: Spotlight Series - Virtual
March 16-19: WBL Summit - In-person - New Orleans
April: Program concludes