Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
United Kingdom
London
Overview
Empowering female founders across Europe.
Details
Women Startup Competition is a not-for-profit business incubation platform with a network of passionate, spirited and experienced entrepreneurs, strategists, thinkers with a wide variety of backgrounds. Our mission is to educate and inspire women to start their businesses/startups, and to support them in the challenging early years especially when being a female entrepreneur.
Women Startup Competition is a community of supportive female founders across Europe who walk or has walked the same journey of struggles, so they know the value of supporting each other.
WSC offers different mentoring programs for both small businesses and tech startups, has wide connections to VC’s, angel investors, big corporates, to local startup ecosystems, non-profit organizations.
Calling all beautytech, femtech, e-commerce female founders in Europe!
The beautytech accelerator programme is now open for applicants. This is a sub-category as part of WSC’s pitching events across Europe, but if you can’t make it to any of our events (shortlisted teams are invited to pitch), you can apply to the programme online until the end of September.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Startups with a majority of females amongst its founders/co-founders may apply, along with female-founded startups, or where 50% of the ownership belongs to women, or where at least 50% of the members are women, or where an equal gender diversity representation (50%-50%) can be found within the entrepreneurial team.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
Could you be one of the three best female-founded or half female-owned team to receive:
- Pitching at the London Final event in November (together with other semi-finalists of the pitching series) in front of a panel of international investors, startup mentors and global corporates’ executives
- Tailor-made beauty tech mentoring program powered by Avon – leading beauty cosmetics company
- Pilot opportunities and commercial contracts with Avon
- Local and global brand exposure/PR support both WSC’s and Avon’s channels
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
