Opportunity for women startups of the CEE region!
Women startup competition now calls out for applicants in the Central Eastern European region to join us in Hungary from the 19th of March for this 5 days challange.
As we know startups, funded by young, female entrepreneurs achieved great successes in the past few years and our goal is to drive attention to these fantastic incohations. We provide the oppurtunity to pich in front of potential investors for prizes you would never dream of. The 2nd CEE Women startup competition is a 5 days long women startup challenge, which takes place in Budapest, Hungary this March.
We accept applications until the 23th February!
Program
Pitch Training
March 19, 2015 - March 20 @Grund - the home of Google Ground Budapest
March 19, 2015 — March 20 @DesignTerminal
We make sure that our applicants are fully prepared to meet the biggest investors of the region. Participants will be given all the help they need, including pitch and business mentoring, lectures and workshops.
Opening Party
March 20, 2015 @DesignTerminal
Relaxation and collective-fun having prepares us for the big Demo Day.
Teddy The Guardian
Winner of the First CEE Women Startup Competition
Our goal
There are women all around the world working in the fields of business who are worth paying attention to.
CEE Women Startup Competition has been founded in order to give an opportunity to young, female entrepreneurs to meet the investors of their dreams and to create a tradition for female entrepreneurs in order to get attention based on their talent, competence and commitment. In a motivating, challenging environment teams can learn some useful practices from recognized professionals and prepare for a Demo Day challenge that might be a game changer for many of the selected teams.
We want each team to set an example for female entrepreneurs and furthermore be part of the CEE startup ecosystem which can provide additional help for the applicants and other regional startups.
A bit of history
Last year’s Women Startup Competition encouraged us to organize the second event this year in order to introduce the best women startups of Central and Eastern Europe in front of a big audience. Among many successful women entrepreneurs of the region we can proudly mention the Pioneers Festival winner Urska Srsen or the SameBug team, who was the first startup from Hungary to receive an investment from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Other great examples for successful female startups, are the 2014 Women Startup Competition winner Teddy the Guardian, and last but not least Sara Gulyás with her widely successful Kickstarter campaign.
We are happy to welcome startups from all fields, there are no boundaries, we are fully open for ideas.
Our experience is that mobile and biotechnological developments, numerous projects from the fields of fashion, art and gastronomy have proven to be popular topics and had also succeeded thanks to the CEE Women Startup Competition investments.
Prizes
- fantastic Apple products (MacBook Air, iPad)
- for 2 person: 2 month free L’Office coworking office usage in Budapest.
- team tickets to startup conferences (Pioneers Festival, Global Webit Expo, CEEDS’15 by Webit, etc)
- the coolest IoT gadgets
- other surprises
...and a chance for a 511 000 Euro investment (VCs + Angels).
The Jury
Edina Heal — Country Manager at Google
Laszlo Nagy — Director of Technology Development at GE Healthcare
Kamilla Szandrocha — COO of Aquincum Technology Incubator
Matthew Ftacnik — Co-founder of TheSpot.sk
Antal Károlyi — Co-founder, partner at Traction Tribe
Mentors
Istvan Sudy
After consulting and advising companies on their business development and communication Steve spends most of his spare time prepping startups for different startup events, conferences and competitions. He is startup mentor at Startup Pirates and head coach at Pioneers Festival. His specialties include: social media, online communities and business models.
Tamas Muller
Startup geek and mentor & funder of CEE Women Startup Competition. Digital and startup marketing expert. Tamas have more than 18 years of online & digital experience. He worked at leading Hungarian online marketing companies (Kirowski Isobar, Carnation Possible, Ringier Publishing House). As Carnationgoup CEE manager contracted and due diligenced dozens of “Carnation like” startups and accessed “the Most Creative CEE Agency of the Year 2011″ title for the company.
David Trayford
Founder of TheHub.hu Budapest’s best connected and liveiest co-working space. Owner of Wow Media Ltd, a specialist advisory and training company Entrepreneur-in residence at the European Entrepreneurship Foundation, Team Project coach at Singularity University in Mountain View, California; Speech coach for several TED and TedX speakers; Mentor for Seedcamp, and Pioneers’ Festival.
& Talquer’s experianced mentors.
Our sponsors
IBM .:. Prezi .:. Ustream .:. The Connect East Incubator .:. Traction Tribe .:. Google .:. L’office .:. Design Terminal .:. Antavo .:. Forbes .:. The Pitch .:. Startupper .:. Kairos Society .:. Budapest Launchpad .:. Hackathon .:. TheSpot.sk
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