7th Women Startup Competition - Madrid

Our Goals: Grab attention, grow woman participation, meet entrepreneurs and investors

WHO WE ARE

Women Startup Competition is an annual startup competition in Europe. It was founded in order to give opportunity for female entrepreneurs and their team members to meet investors, receive support and advice to reach their business goals. The competition aims to increase the currently very low 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 the creative female entrepreneurs, who we accelerate to speed up on the superhighway of business. The community and the network keep growing from its very beginning, and we constantly expand geographically. WSC is present in 12 European countries offering training series and competitions as well.

The aim of Women Startup Competition is to grow the presence of women in business, and in order 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 the majority of the founders are women. We would like to improve the knowledge of female entrepreneurs, encourage and help them, and would also like to connect them with leading corporate innovation centers, venture capitalists, angel investors and other possible traction generation partners.

WHY TO APPLY

To get attention, to grow woman participation in business, to create gender balance.

Increase your chances! All the winners from the local semifinal events goes 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

Startups which have at least 50% women in the entrepreneurial team or a female CEO or female founder.

THE PROCESS

1. Online application

2. Online selection of valid ideas to the semifinals

3. Intensive half-day-long online mini-bootcamp ( speed rapid mentoring = 10round with 2min pithces + 15 min Q&A + 3 min change to next mentor) 

4. Pitching on the local semifinals (Semifinal winners will be the final shortlist)

5. Finals selection 

6. Pitching on WSC Demo Day - winner election

7. Long term, guided follow up, focusing on traction generation and international expansion 

Find all the local events here: https://www.womenstartupcompetition.com/#10 

FAQ:https://www.womenstartupcompetition.com/#16

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A short guideline for new bees:

--> The steps that need to follow if you already have an account on Pozi but you did not submit your project yet:

1. Log in to Pozi and create an idea or startup (in case the participant does not have any);

2. Open the competition;

3. Go to Ideas or Startups in the menu of the competition;

4. Look for the Submit button, click on it;

5. Choose your idea or startup from the dropdown-list and submit it;

--> The steps that need to follow if you are a new applicant and you didn't register to Pozi yet:

1. Register to Pozi.io + Activate the account via email confirmation;

2. Create an idea or a startup on Pozi.

3. Open the competition link + apply to the competition;

4. Choose the Startup owner from the drop-down list;

5. Add your idea or startup from the other drop-down list and submit it;