Jury Member
FILIPA C. ARAÚJO
Program Manager, INCO | Co-founder, Sydney Snorkeling
OCEANIA
FILIPA C. ARAÚJO
Filipa Araújo has spent her career backing entrepreneurs across Asia-Pacific, Africa and Europe, helping them start and grow businesses that do good and do well. She is deeply committed to supporting underrepresented impact founders.
Filipa is an experienced impact program designer and ecosystem builder. She focuses on entrepreneurs tackling pressing challenges, especially those often overlooked by conventional support. From Asia-Pacific to Africa and Europe, she has dedicated her work to the sustainable growth of both startups and SMEs, guided by the belief that the best support is designed with the people it serves.
Filipa is currently a Program Manager at INCO, an international social enterprise, where she supports underrepresented entrepreneurs to grow their SMEs and helps young people from similar backgrounds enter the job market. Before that, she led global accelerator programs at Remarkable, a disability tech accelerator, and directed SheStarts, an Australian accelerator for women-led startups. She ran the first country-wide entrepreneurship competition in Guinea-Bissau, funded by the World Bank, which trained over 500 entrepreneurs. She is also the co-founder of Sydney Snorkeling, an eco-tourism business focused on conservation and inclusion.
Filipa holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics and a double master's degree in International Management and Social Entrepreneurship from CEMS and Nova.