SBE
Australia

In conjunction with Springboard Enterprises, SBE Australia formally launched in 2012 as the international not-for-profit organisation supporting women entrepreneurs who are transforming industries.

SBE Australia Accelerates Bigger, Better Women-led Businesses

Since 2012, SBE Australia has been providing women with access to tools, networks, and knowledge.

We’re here to help women build and scale global, sustainable businesses.

Female founders face a unique set of challenges. We understand these challenges, in addition to those commonly faced by entrepreneurs.

Our programs are designed to:help you sharpen your plans, hone your skills and build a network for long-term success.

We’ve built a network to help you achieve business success. Our global network of experts includes our accomplished alumnae, dedicated Board of Directors, key business influencers, Executive committees, corporate and government leaders, successful entrepreneurs, and investors.

Our promise is to support, qualify, advise and showcase the most promising women-led businesses from around the world. We exist to help you:

  • Develop the skills, knowledge, mindset, and the right connections to accelerate your growth.
  • Build long-term relationships focused on you and your needs.
  • Cement strong foundations in marketing, technology, team building, and leadership.
  • Overcome the gender bias with access to a vetted network of key influencers, investors, and business leaders, from both the US and Australia.
  • Gain the confidence to take the leap towards growth and global success.

The SBE Journey

Growth
Ongoing Support & Engagement

Engage with the extensive community of alumna, program graduates, advisors, experts and services providers to continue your growth journey whether establishing your first business or exiting your 3rd (and everything in between).

Scale
Going Global

Demonstrated focus on measurable growth through KPIs in users, customers, revenues, market traction, and more. Grow and scale fast. Investment secured to support future growth and ready to enter new global markets outside of the Pacific Region.

Iteration
Business Building

Your product has met a proven market need, has been validated, and is iterating with customer feedback. The business is in the build phase in terms of team, product, resources, client, and commercial management. Assistance is required to help take the business to the next stage.

Validation
MVP / Execution

Launch of a minimum viable product (MVP) where the idea becomes a product through committing time and resources. Product is tested in the market for validation of product-market fit and demonstration of commercial viability of the solution.

Formation
Ideating & Establishing

Problem identification and early stage idea phase. Making the decision to be an entrepreneur, having identified a potentially scalable solution to a problem that addresses the need of a large enough target market. Just getting started in this phase!

How We Work

AMPLIFY THE HUMAN CONNECTION

Whether supporting our cohorts with bespoke, individualised programs, developing our internal team members, or interacting with our global network of experts, advisors, investors, and partners, we reinforce the impact of the human connection.

Technology has its place in what we do and how we advance societies and economies but the human connection is the magic that makes things happen, the reason we exist, and the reason we can achieve great things.

Together, we are stronger.

STRIVE FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY

From a deep appreciation of and empathy for the entrepreneurial journey, we exist to help the women we support to reach the extraordinary. We aim to provide services that transform the human behind the entrepreneur, giving them courage, confidence, and resilience to reach heights they never imagined.

We are tough and relentless in our approach to build strength, not fear, so they can reach the extraordinary. We are in it for the long haul, supporting our entrepreneurs for as long as they need us.

BUILD THE BIG AND THE BOLD

Always with a global perspective, we provide the connection to the bigger opportunity. We strive to be a high-quality platform that transforms potential into powerful on a global scale. Through data and analytics, we constantly review the impact our services have on the individuals we support, the industries they transform and the economies they advance.

Using these insights we aim to maintain relevancy and currency and to be the thought leader supporting women with a mission to transform industries.