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Did you know that only 32% of entrepreneurs are actually female entrepreneurs?

They face three major challenges when it comes to entrepreneurship: lack of trust, limited access to finance and the lack of a solid network.

Faced with this observation, Marie Eloy created a network of female support in 2014 to create and develop her business, Women from Brittany. And it works! In 2018 alone, the association organizes no less than 350 events, is present in 32 cities, and has 57 coordinators. In 2019, Women of Brittany organized 500 events with 90 coordinators.

That same year, Marie Eloy co-founded - with the Entrepreneurship Foundation - the association Women of the Territories. The principle is the same as Femmes de Bretagne, but extended throughout France.

From regional to national thanks to tech

The Women of the Territories association is now run by volunteers who lead and provide workshops, exchanges, meetings and events in the field. At the same time, a digital platform allows members to present their project and activities, to discover those of others as well as to gain expertise with online resources.

It is the desire to optimize this platform in order to support the ambitions of the organization that Women of the Territories met Share it in 2021, with a project that will mobilize more than 1000 days between men and women in skills sponsorship.

Thanks to Share it support, with the skilled sponsorship teams from Omnilog, Wolfox and Wavestone, and our financial partner Google·org, the digital platform of Women of Territories now offers a range of tools that best enable networking:

- A system of private messaging, allowing members to come into direct contact to exchange experiences, ask questions or establish collaborations.

- A calendar is available for virtual or real meetings.

- In order to boost exchanges and meetings between women entrepreneurs, the platform shapeless - through notification - members on the various workshops, meetings or happenings of the network. Whether by videoconference or during physical meetings, members have the opportunity to meet, share experiences and build lasting relationships. These meetings, which are both inspiring and formative, provide an environment conducive to the professional and personal growth of female entrepreneurs.

A few months were enough for the new collaborative platform to allow the non-profit to reach 2,300 members - and this is only the beginning, with the aim of connecting more than 75,000 women entrepreneurs by 2030. Congratulations, and long live Women of the Territories!

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