THE BEST FEMALE STARTUPS GATHERED IN BERLIN!
In respect to the previous Women Startup Competition pre-finals all across seven countries, the Berlin event presented the best women led startups of the region. Female funders had to represent 50% of the team’s funders to participate in this exciting tournament.
The competition’s Pre-final events are currently calling for ambitious female entrepreneurs with pre-final events held in 7 countries, including Finland, Poland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK. The online application is open for all teams until the 4th of April! The only requirement set by the organizers is, that the founders must have at least an equal gender diversity representation (50%-50%) within the entrepreneurial team.
„On Monday, we had an amazing afternoon with wonderful entrepreneurs in Berlin. We are glad that you were there ladies, and happy to announce the winners of the local semi-final.” — said Tamas Müller, WSC founder
Space Schack Berlin hosted the event with it’s brilliant minimalistic spaces. The co-working office had only opened recently and is already famous for it’s double carpeted meditation & relaxation room, which both the organizers and teams with babies could take advantage of.
As part of the professional jury, highly skilled individuals shared their advice with the participating teams:
- Tanja Kufner — MD at Startupbootcamp Berlin
- Masoud Kamali — WestTech Ventures founder
- Christoph Räthke –Berlin Startup Academy founder
& Val Racheeva- A wefound.org & Global Female Entrepreneurs Community founder also help a keynote presentation.
Since 2014, Women Startup Competition has given numerous opportunities for female founders and gender diverse startups, to expand their businesses and meet the investors of their dreams. With prizes like co-working office space and personal mentoring, tickets to several international conferences; WSC offers a chance to network and possible promotion for all lucky participants.
In regards to the application, there are no thematic requirements: any idea owner, entrepreneur or startup can apply who believe that their idea might appeal to their target audience and attract investors.
All applications are welcome! Introducing the winners of the Berlin pre-final:
- I. A MealSaver a mobil application, that’s aim is to prevent food waste and share food among citizens. https://www.facebook.com/mealsaver.de/
- II. Easy Locker provides accessible locker service for the B2B and the B2C sector as well.
https://www.f6s.com/easylocker
- III. Cloud Development helps startups and small companies to access website development service in an affordable price. They also work on to develop their data analysis software. https://www.f6s.com/cdevpl
High resolution images of the competition are available here
Teams, who didn’t have a chance to attend, please apply to the competition online at the following link until the 4th of April, 2017: http://www.womenstartupcompetition.com/
Since 2014, Women Startup Competition has received and professionally supported more than 300 applications from 4 continents. This year we already reached over 200 pre-registrations — and we hope this will further encourage young talents to follow this path! At the 4th Women Startup competition, we are proud to welcome a growing number of innovative, gender diverse entrepreneurs and startups to participate in this life changing experience. The 4th Women Startup Competition brings many new changes for participants, sponsors and followers of the movement. By extending the structure, beyond the online selection process and the week-long workshop-based mentoring and Demo Day teams will have an opportunity to pitch their ideas to the mentors in person.
“We were really glad to welcome all participants, who’s number extended 100 person. We Had the honor of listening to great pitches, therefore the jury’s decision was as hard as it can get. The location and venue proved to be very suitable with the competition and we are looking forward to return soon.– Andrea Lukacs, CEO of WSC Incubator
So we call out for gender diverse startups & entrepreneurs to fill out their application today — and we encourage every startup out there, to urgently find female business partner(s) before the application deadline.
For more info and updates please stay tuned at www.womenstartupcompetition.com
PARTNERS
Ministry of Human Capacities .:. GE Digital .:. HiVentures .:. Mercedes-Benz Hungária Kft .:. Fidor Bank .:. Cursor.fi .:. Google .:. F6S .:. Prezi.com
CONTACT
Tamas Müller | +36 30 340 0695 | tamas@womenstartupcompetition.com
Zsuzsa Gulyas | +36 30 849 7927 | zsuzsa@womenstartupcompetition.com
