Women Startup Competition is an annual startup competition in Europe. It was founded to give female entrepreneurs and their team members opportunities to meet investors and receive support and advice to reach their business goals. The competition aims to increase the currently meager ratio of women in business.
Women Startup Competition was born in 2012 in Budapest, Hungary. Since then, the movement has constantly been blooming and growing, attracting creative female entrepreneurs, who we accelerate to speed up on the superhighway of business. The community and the network have kept rising from the beginning, and we are constantly expanding geographically. WSC is present in 12 European countries, offering training series and competitions.
The Women Startup Competition aims to grow the presence of women in business and to do this, we provide training and opportunities for more and more gender-diverse startups to realize their dreams and encourage them to do what they love to do.
Our series of competitions increases the number of innovative enterprises where most founders are women. We want to improve the knowledge of female entrepreneurs and encourage and help them. We would also like to connect them with leading corporate innovation centers, venture capitalists, angel investors, and other possible traction-generation partners.
WHY APPLY: To get attention, increase women's business participation, and create gender balance. Increase your chances! All the winners from the local semifinal events go straight to the Final Demo Day. Ask questions! All other attendees go through the same as you. You can benefit from each others' questions and answers. Learn to please your audience! Get the ultimate hints and improve your presentation and pitching skills.
WHO CAN APPLY: One requirement is that the applicant must be a startup led by a female CEO or a female-founded/co-founded Startup that has at least 50% women in the entrepreneurial team or a female CEO or female founder. The second requirement is that the startup should be at least at the MVP phase or very close to launching, so something tangible to show.