Empower Start (female entrepreneurship supports)
Usually opens in January and February and September
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
Enterprise Ireland runs a family of female entrepreneurship supports (Empower Start, Level Up, Innovate) providing training, mentoring and in some strands a stipend or grant.
Enterprise Ireland
public · national
Deadline: annual_call — Programme cohorts recruit once or twice a year.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
- Female founders
- Locally registered entity required
Enterprise Ireland also ring-fences a female-founder strand within the Pre-Seed Start Fund.
Source. https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/supports — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked