We enclosed the EIT Food Empowering Women in Agrifood Programme's 2022 Hungarian edition with a great pitch event!

It was not only a usual pitch event but a place full of enthusiastic and inspiring women entrepreneurs. After the work that was done during the last 6 months, the mentees presented their business ideas in front of a public audience and the jury. They all were excited about their proposed solutions. The participant's progress is awesome, the mentoring programme was worth it, and they gained useful skills for maintaining and improving their businesses. The EWA Programme definitely had a big impact in the region, these courageous women entrepreneurs are rocking!

Tamás Müller, Founder of POZI.io and Women Startup Competitions opened the event with an introductory speech.

After that, Aleksandra Bara, the Coordinator of the EIT Food EWA Programme had a keynote speech, she encouraged the mentees to continue the work that they started. Then she shared with the audience the vision of EIT Food: a world where everybody can access and enjoy sustainable, safe, and healthy food, with trust and fairness from farm to fork. She also talked about the opportunities that EIT Food programmes provide, like the EIT Food Women in Entrepreneurship, EIT Jumpstarter, EIT Food Accelerator Network, Launch - Seedbed Incubator, Test Farms, Sales Booster, Supernovas, EIT FoodHive. It was a pleasure to meet with Aleksandra, her presentation was such a great inspiration for everyone.

Afterward, the jury members introduced themselves to the audience:

• Andrea Kozma from CEU Innovations Lab
• Barbara Verő from Prepaired - Business angel investor, Future Proof Consulting
• Kamilla Rácz from Impact Ventures

Following this, we had the pitching section, where the following mentees presented their business ideas:

• Tünde Udvarnoki, Founder of Compot
• Éva Kovács, Founder of Vegendás - Babföl
• Csilla Kádár, Founder of Stella Saffron
• Dorottya Szám, Founder of Network Medicine For Agriculture
• Katalin Réthy, Founder of Szezon Kert
• Erzsébet Sudárné Boros, Founder of Sudár Birtok
• Olívia Gazsó, Founder of Olívia Kertje
• Csilla Hódi, Founder of Mobile Mushroom Lab,
• Anita Képíró, Founder of Borecet
• Szandra Nyemecz Tőzsér, Founder of Superfood Smoothie

During the coffee break, there was space for networking. The mentees and the mentors had the chance to get to know each other better and learn more about the presented ideas.

We had a long jury session because all the pitches were extremely great, and it was a tough decision time. During the evaluation session, Tamás Turcsán, founder of POZI.io, and advisor at Galaxys.xyz shared his stories with the audience.

But finally, we could announce the winners! The 1. place, with a prize of 10 000 euros goes to Tünde Udvarnoki, the founder of Compot! And the 2. place, with the prize of 5 000 euros goes to Katalin Réthy, the founder of Szezon Kert! The awards were provided by EIT Food. Congratulations on the awards! At the same time, congratulations to all the 10 women entrepreneurs! We are happy for you! And be prepared, because the journey has just begun!

Big thanks to the mentors, who supported our mentees during the last 6 months: Levente Vöröss, Tamás Turcsán Péter, Andrea Kurucz, Rita Szerencsés, Éva Tornyánszki, Viktor Borbély, Balázs Horváth, György Káli, Nikoletta Takács, Dóra Nagy. Mentorship is increasingly at the heart of entrepreneur support programmes, and they did a super great job! Because being a mentor is not an easy thing. Mentoring means different things for different people... like technical and business development, personal development, and core skills.

We are delighted about the EWA Programme and being an EIT Food partner! Thank you for the opportunity!

For more information, please contact:

Tamás Müller, tamasmuller@pozi.io

About EIT Food



The EWA Programme is a project under the support of EIT Food. EIT Food is the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. We accelerate innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all. 

Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, we invest in projects, organizations, and individuals that share our goals for a healthy and sustainable food system. We unlock innovation potential in businesses and universities and create and scale agrifood startups to bring new technologies and products to market. We equip entrepreneurs and professionals with the skills needed to transform the food system and put consumers at the heart of our work, helping build trust by reconnecting them to the origins of their food.

We are one of nine innovation communities established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set up in 2008 to drive innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe. 

Find out more at www.eitfood.eu or follow us via social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

About POZI.io

“The current mortality rate of ideas in the startup world remains unacceptably low, and this has to change. Pozi aims to put a stop to wasting ideas and talents. The result of innovation should not be only an excel sheet.” - Roland Kovács, CEO of Pozi.io

We created POZI.io to assess and connect the members of the startup ecosystem. We give you the tools that you need to manage and organize your ecosystem, to bring structure to the messy processes of finding an idea, building a team, or launching a new venture. So you can enjoy the bumpy ride of innovation without worrying about all the things that can go wrong.

Find out more on the Pozi.io website https://pozi.io/competitions/eit-ewa-2022.