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A private boardroom membership for growth stage female founders building commercially successful businesses.
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A private boardroom membership for growth stage female founders building commercially successful businesses.
APPLY NOWThe people who can move your business at this stage are not hard to convince. They are hard to get in front of. Acentric puts you in the room with them. Mentors from AWS, Google, American Express exited founders and active VCs who show up to work on your business rather than speak at you. Corporate partners who can become customers or distributors. Investors already backing companies at your level.
Nine sessions across the year, led by Nicki with guest mentors, built around whatever your business is actually dealing with that month. Growing revenue, building pipeline, closing partnerships, raising capital. You bring a live commercial decision, you leave with a clearer next move. It is the same fifteen women every time, so nobody spends the first twenty minutes explaining what they do.
Three to four experiences across the cohort year, created for this cohort and attended by people who are difficult to get in front of anywhere else. Nothing is ticketed and there is no open list. Every guest is invited, and part of the room is built around what the founders in it are trying to close. If you need a distribution partner or a particular kind of investor, that is who we bring
Every seat is filled by invitation. Everyone in the room is generating revenue and actively scaling, and everyone has reached the point where what is missing is access rather than effort. For most women who join, it is the first room in a long time where they are not the most ambitious person in it.
The founding cohort
The year opens with three days and two nights in a private residence in Dubai. Facilitated sessions, a keynote from a senior operator or investor, personal development work, and one long table with named guests. You leave with a twelve-month plan and incredible women for life who will ask you about it. Included for the founding cohort.
The Founder
Founder & CEO, Acentric & Founders Official
Nicki Bedford, Founder and CEO of Founders Official, has led global expansion, built high performing commercial teams from the ground up, and has closed tens of millions of dollars worth of business. She has sat across the table from some of the world's most recognisable brands. And closed.
Today she works directly with founders on securing investment, building strategic partnerships, and navigating the commercial realities of scaling. That experience, and the network built around it, sits at the centre of every Acentric session.
Previously Head of Asia Pacific at BuzzFeed, leading the company's regional expansion. Chairs the Women Leaders Summit and CEO Forum, and in 2025 and 2026 was shortlisted for Inc. Arabia's Women of Influence
In their words
Founders Official is doing the kind of work AWS wants to back. Our partnership with Acentric reflects a shared belief in expanding opportunity for female founders in this region."
Kartik Renjen
Head of Startups & VC, AWS
I worked with Nicki shortly after she arrived in Dubai and she sold us a campaign worth over $330,000. It was significantly more than we had originally intended to spend, but her commercial instincts and ability to identify the right opportunity gave us the confidence to move forward. Nicki is highly professional and one of the strongest commercial operators I've worked with.’
Umair Masoon
Founder & MD, MYCO
Nicki has been an incredible mentor and supporter of our business. Beyond her strategic advice, she actively creates opportunities and makes valuable introductions. Through her network we secured conversations that led to commercial opportunities with brands including Coca- Cola. She genuinely cares about helping founders grow and has a strong instinct for business.
Mortiz Beck
Co-founder, Chatvertize.co
Is this you?
You have been doing this for a few years now and the business works. Revenue is consistent, clients come back, and you are past the stage of proving anything. What you can see now are the opportunities sitting just out of reach. The partnership that would change your distribution. The account that would change your year. The raise you know you could run better. None of it is a question of effort. It is a question of who you can get to, and how well you can play it once you are in the room.
request an invitation for the founding cohort.
Built for founders with a business that already generates consistent revenue.
The buyers, investors and partners you now need are not difficult to impress. They are difficult to reach.
By the time a business is working, growth depends less on effort and more on proximity. Reaching them begins with a person, and their time is not available on an open basis.
Acentric curates the rooms where those conversations happen, and fills them with founders moving at the same pace.
The founding year begins this October with the Acentric Retreat; three days in a private residence in Dubai.
Founding membership is AED 34,880 + 5% VAT (approximately $9,500) for the year, locked in for as long as you remain a member.
The application takes around ten minutes. Every application is reviewed personally. If there is a strong mutual fit, the next step is a conversation with our founder, Nicki Bedford. Invitations are extended following that conversation.
For more information or to request a call WhatsApp - +971 58 808 1616.