Closing Today: The Female Founder Awards →

Filtering the internet's smartest opportunities you didn't know you needed (yet)...

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Doone Roisin
February 02, 2026

🏆 Pitch on a global stage (Paris) → Applications are closing for VivaTech’s Female Founder Award. Five finalists pitch live in June 2026; winner gets fundraising coaching, major visibility, and a startup corner at VivaTech.

🌍 €10K equity-free for early European founders → Founderland Forward Grant backs women in Europe + the UK facing barriers tied to race or background. Up to six grants per quarter, plus community + resources.

🎁 Get your product into Mother’s Day gift guides → Sunday Woman is compiling its Mother’s Day roundups and actually tests every product. UK-based sampling, editorial reviews, high-res imagery welcomed: pitch Martina right here.

🌴 FemPowered Women just launched Revival Retreat: a luxe, all-inc tropical QLD getaway for founders who want real strategy and real rest.

💇🏾‍♀️ Finally, booking Afro hair without friction. KB Matrix is a mobile app connecting clients with Afro hairstylists across the UK + Europe.

🛡️ “Before you post it, Aurem it.” Aurem IP just opened its founding waitlist for creators who want to protect and license.

🎙️ The Devil Wears SPF is an unfiltered podcast exploring skincare, treatments, and aging with humour, honesty, and zero fks.

📍 Seattle founders, your calendar just got cleaner. Nicole Titus built a one-stop resource pulling everything into a single, filterable hub.

🌸 Beauty routines, but calming. Odette is a new beauty-ritual app replacing overwhelming checklists with guided, grounding routines.

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🧴 Operations Coordinator @ VIOLETTE_FR (Brooklyn, $65K–$70K) → Behind-the-scenes, but critical. Support supply chain + ops at one of the most founder-led, creatively respected beauty brands.

🖥️ Publishing Technologies @ FULLBEAUTY Brands (NYC, $115K–$135K) → Creative ops leadership without being stuck in production. Own the tech + systems powering multi-brand creative teams, from DAM to AI-enabled tools.

🎨 Comms & Public Affairs Intern @ MoMA (NYC, $6,160 stipend) → Museum world, unlocked. Support press, media relations, and audience strategy for upcoming exhibitions and major cultural moments.

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