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Fertile World is a venture studio and greenhouse for women looking to grow financial independence. We believe women are inherently suited to be entrepreneurs, but have never been handed a system built for how they actually work. We believe AI has created a golden age of opportunity, allowing us to bring this system to life. We provide women access to the tools, containers, and resources they need to get from idea to business — based on six principles.
Six principles
What we believe
Everything we build — the calendar, the programs, the companies — grows out of these. They are not values on a wall. They are the reasons the system is shaped the way it is.
And are so grateful to have them.
This is not a case against men. We would never have built the system they built — and we couldn’t do this without it. They drive efficiency, technology, resilience, and evolution forward. We protect, nurture, and tend what it grows. That’s not a rivalry. That’s a pair.
The most important work on earth has never had a salary.
There is no job more important than tending to what is growing. Caretaking for children and the elderly is at the very heart of the human experience, and should be valued as such. It also naturally conflicts with a 9 to 5.
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
Women run on a 28-day cycle, yet are asked to work a 9 to 5 built around a male one. Nature does not work on a 9 to 5, and neither should we. So we built our calendar out of the one production schedule that has never failed.
We love money.
The universe is expansively abundant and there is enough prosperity for all with a little ingenuity and love. There is inherent value in all of us, and everyone has the agency to bring their gifts to the world. We love to see you shine.
Measure six times. Cut once.
Women are more likely to measure six times and cut once — resourceful in a way that is measured rather than timid. Resourceful is not a compliment. It’s a return profile.
Entrepreneurship is the ultimate game.
We respect and honor our ability to create. Entrepreneurship is the greatest tool for an expansive life. We are devoted to our craft, and wholeheartedly committed to helping women flourish.
The numbers agree
against 1h 23m for men
Unpaid care work women do every day. The most important work on earth — and the reason a 9 to 5 was never built for her.
ILO · Care Work and Care Jobs · 2018against $2.1M
What women-founded startups raised over five years of accelerator companies — less than half the money.
BCG with MassChallenge · 2018against 31¢
Revenue returned per dollar invested. More than twice the return, on less than half the capital.
BCG with MassChallenge · 2018
The calendar
Our five stages sit on the four seasons. Fall gathers the harvest and clears the ground, winter sets the course, spring blooms and gets paid, summer rests — and every turn comes back to the same ground, wider than it was.
Turn last season’s harvest into ownership, then cut back in order to bloom — be discerning about what no longer serves you.
Know who you are and what you stand for, written down. Value follows scarcity — you are a one of one.
Stand in your truth and face the sun. Decide on your offer, direct the execution, bloom, bear fruit — and get paid well.
The one season with nothing due. Nothing ripens faster because you stood over it.
How we work with founders
Three doors into one garden. The Studio is where we plant our own ideas and look for the woman to grow them. The Greenhouse is where you bring yours. Consulting is where you hire our experts directly.
Our venture arm where we bring ideas to life.
Our idea. Your hands.
We originate & resource the company, the demographic and the seed line — the one sentence that can’t be repeated wrong — then look for the founder to run it. This is not an application to a program. It’s a co-founding.
Our incubation program. 10 months from idea to business.
Your idea. Our method.
One full turn of the spiral, from idea to business — next cohort begins November. You bring the company you want to build. We bring the tools, the containers, the community and the room.
Our team of experts is available to work with you directly.
Our expertise. On your schedule.
Need help with a specific part of your business and want more direct support? Work with our experts. Our team of consultants can help you directly.
When women flourish, the world flourishes.
Fertile World — a world built to flourish.
