EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women

What EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women does

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women is an executive leadership program operated by Ernst & Young LLP (the US member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited), designed to identify and support high-potential women entrepreneurs who own equity in established, growing businesses. The program provides participants with access to EY's global network, including clients, investors, mentors, and business leaders, and is positioned within EY's broader Entrepreneurship service line alongside the Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program and the Entrepreneurs Access Network. In the US, the program operates from Chicago; globally, EY maintains over 700 offices spanning more than 150 countries with a workforce of 400,000+ professionals, including 57,000 employees across 70+ US locations.

The program is a non-revenue-generating brand and pipeline-building initiative within EY, funded as part of the firm's broader professional services operations. EY's commercial business spans four service lines — Assurance, Consulting, Tax, and Strategy and Transactions (including EY-Parthenon) — plus managed services, pricing on negotiated professional services fees tied to scope and complexity. The firm serves enterprise organizations, private clients and family enterprises, private equity firms, and government/public sector clients across more than 20 industries. Select enterprise clients include Microsoft, Bristol Myers Squibb, Medtronic, Daikin, Xcel Energy, St James's Hospital, and the City of Antwerp.

EY's technology stack includes the EY.ai unified AI platform, the EYQ generative AI solution (2025 Gold Stevie Award winner), the EY Fabric data platform, the EY Nexus industry cloud platform, EY Studio+ for design and CX, and the Smart Factory Platform. Strategic alliances with Microsoft, Nvidia, and Shopify, combined with the April 2024 acquisition of Nuvalence, indicate active investment in AI-enabled service delivery. The program itself does not appear to have proprietary technology but benefits from integration with EY's broader technology ecosystem.

Name

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women

Legal name

Ernst & Young LLP

Website

https://www.ey.com/en_gl/entrepreneurial-winning-women

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women is an executive leadership program by Ernst & Young that supports high-potential women entrepreneurs who own equity in growing businesses, providing access to EY's global network, mentorship, and resources to help scale their companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Women Entrepreneur Leadership Program

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

akta.pro primary industry

Leadership, Management & Teamwork for Business (EDAMAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Entrepreneurship Foundations & Startup Basics (EDAMAHAA), Career Exploration & Industry Exposure (Guest Speakers, Company Visits) (EDAMAHAJ)

Keywords

• Women entrepreneur program
• Executive leadership program
• Entrepreneur mentorship network
• Business scaling program
• Entrepreneur development program

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Assurance Services: Audit services providing trust through assurance for clients.
2. Consulting: Analytics, customer experience, cybersecurity, finance, risk, supply chain and technology transformation consulting.
3. Tax Services: Tax policy, indirect taxes, international tax, private tax, tax accounting, tax compliance, tax controversy, and tax technology services.
4. Strategy and Transactions: M&A advisory, integration, divestment, corporate finance, valuation, due diligence, and forecasting services through EY-Parthenon.
5. Managed Services: Ongoing managed services including cybersecurity, compliance, financial crime, legal, payroll and technology services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women is an executive leadership program for high-potential women entrepreneurs who own equity in established, growing businesses. The program provides access to EY's global networks, knowledge resources, mentorship, and structured peer learning to help participants scale their businesses and reach their full potential. It functions as a gateway into EY's broader ecosystem of professional services, connecting participants with EY's clients, investors, and business leaders.

Product overview

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women is a platform-plus-program architecture consisting of the core Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America program. This is EY's flagship entrepreneurship initiative focused exclusively on high-potential women entrepreneurs who own equity in established, growing businesses. The program serves as a gateway to EY's broader ecosystem of professional services, connecting participants with EY's global network of clients, investors, and business leaders. The program is positioned within EY's broader Entrepreneurship service line alongside other entrepreneur-focused offerings such as the Entrepreneurs Access Network and Entrepreneur Of The Year awards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America: A program supporting high-potential women entrepreneurs through networking, mentorship, and resources
• Entrepreneur Of The Year
• Entrepreneurs Access Network

Products and services

• Entrepreneurial Winning Women North America A flagship EY Americas executive leadership program designed for high-potential women entrepreneurs who own equity in substantial, growing businesses. The program provides access to EY networks, knowledge, mentorship, and resources to help participants scale their businesses and reach their full potential.

Quantifiable outcome

• Supply chain transformation enabled personalized care for over 78 million patients (Medtronic)

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered strategic and core.

• NuvalencestrategicTechnology or Integration · 1 April 2024Nuvalence, a technology consultancy, joined EY US to accelerate delivery of platform engineering, product development and generative AI platform-enabled services.
• ShopifycoreTechnology or IntegrationWarren Tomlin leads the EY-Shopify global alliance, working on digital transformation initiatives for brands and organizations in Canada and globally.
• NvidiastrategicTechnology or IntegrationStrategic alliance focused on AI capabilities in transport and infrastructure, helping national governments and large organizations leverage AI for infrastructure investment solutions.
• MicrosoftstrategicTechnology or IntegrationEY and Microsoft collaboration on AI and data enabling utility operations resilience, with convergence of IT and OT in the utilities sector.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women is a global initiative providing business education, mentoring, and capital access to women entrepreneurs — directly comparable as a Big-Institution-sponsored women entrepreneurship program targeting growth-stage founders.
• Springboard Enterprises: Springboard Enterprises is a women-focused accelerator that connects high-growth women-led companies with investors and strategic partners, directly comparable as a dedicated women-entrepreneurship growth platform with curated investor access.
• Dell Technologies Women's Entrepreneur Network: Dell's corporate-sponsored program connects women founders globally with technology, mentorship, and capital networks — comparable as a large-corporate-sponsored women entrepreneur program leveraging brand and ecosystem access.
• Babson College Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership: Babson CWEL is a leading academic center focused on advancing women entrepreneurs through research, education, and programming, comparable as a research- and education-driven women-entrepreneurship platform.

Emerging players

• Female Founders Fund: Female Founders Fund is a venture fund investing in women-led technology and consumer businesses, comparable as a women-founder-focused capital and ecosystem player competing for the same founder pipeline.
• All Raise: All Raise is a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the success rate of women founders and women investors, comparable as a women-entrepreneurship ecosystem builder offering programming and visibility for women-led companies.
• Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Goldman Sachs' $10B commitment to advance economic opportunity for Black women includes entrepreneurship programming, comparable as a corporate-backed women-entrepreneurship initiative with capital and advisory components.

Broad incumbents

• Y Combinator: Y Combinator is the world's largest startup accelerator, comparable as the benchmark accelerator model that EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women competes against for high-potential founder mindshare, though it is not women-specific.
• Techstars: Techstars is a global startup accelerator network with mentorship-driven cohorts, comparable as a large-scale accelerator alternative for growth-stage entrepreneurs considering EY's program.
• MassChallenge: MassChallenge is a global, no-equity startup accelerator supporting early-stage founders, comparable as a competing accelerator alternative for high-potential entrepreneurs outside the EY ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/EYnews
• YouTubeyoutube.com/ErnstandYoungGlobal
• Facebookfacebook.com/EY
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ernstandyoung
• Instagraminstagram.com/ey_us

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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