Agora Venture Competition Spring 2025 ($10,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: March 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Agora Venture Competition Spring 2025. Each yr, Agora runs two enterprise challenges for DC-space feminine founders the place the winner walks away with a $10K money prize. They put feminine founders on the middle of the dialog, gathering the highest enterprise and tech influencers within the DMV to assist girls fund and scale their startups.

Founded in 2024, the Agora Initiative brings founders, funders, and trade influencers collectively to assist advance feminine founders in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. They consider that they’ll transfer the needle for native feminine founders by rallying round them.

Prize

• One winner will obtain a $10,000 check, awarded as a non-dilutive grant.

Eligibility

• Applicant should self-determine as both feminine or non-binary.
• Must be based mostly in DC, Maryland, or Virginia.
• Must be a founder with at the least 25% fairness stake and maintain a C-suite government place within the firm they’re representing.
• Must be previous “idea stage” with income, lively customers or different efficiency metric to sign early product market match. Applicant founder should be, with some restricted exceptions, working full time on their enterprise.
• Applicant’s firm ought to show the potential for enterprise-scale development, indicating a capability for speedy enlargement and vital market affect. (Note: Founders of consultancies or different companies that don’t meet this criterion are welcome to achieve out to discover different paths for involvement).
• The firm should be integrated as a for-revenue entity.

Application

Applications will shut on March 7, 2025. Applications shall be reviewed by the investor committee all through March & April, and finalists will pitch at their showcase occasion on May 7. They will notify finalists by mid-April.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Agora Venture Competition.