SAIS Female Founder Award 2025 – YOA

Deadline: May 12, 2025

Applications are open for the SAIS Female Founder Award 2025. The award acknowledges visionaries who’ve achieved success of their fields, create social influence, and encourage different ladies to start out or develop their very own companies.

The SAIS Female Founder Award is an initiative by “Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS), a challenge applied by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The SAIS imaginative and prescient is to remodel the meals methods by being the main group for tech ventures ​in rising markets. The begin-ups they assist should supply options that result in revenue development, improved vitamin or adaptation to local weather change. With the SAIS Female Founder Award, their purpose is to strengthen the visibility of feminine-led begin-ups and to advertise a extra equitable and dynamic panorama for feminine founders to grow to be the subsequent ‘gazelles’ and achieve constructing a unicorn in Africa.

Prize

For the three winners the prize embrace:  

1st Place: 

• Vouchers: as much as €12,000
• Services: as much as €18,000

2nd Place: 

• Vouchers: as much as €5,000
• Services: as much as €10,000

third Place:

• Vouchers: as much as €3,000
• Services: as much as €4,000

Eligibility

• Your enterprise is registered and operates on the African continent.
• Your enterprise has an official certificates of registration.
• You are an African feminine who (co)based and runs a begin-up / development stage enterprise.
• You ought to have technical expertise in your space of operation.
• At least three individuals who work full-time for the beginning-up (together with your self as a founder).
• Your product/service is digital or has a robust digital part.
• Your product is providing an impactful resolution within the AgTech, FoodTech or ClimateTech sectors in Africa.
• Your firm has been registered at the very least 2 years earlier than submitting the application.
• Your begin-up should have clear proof of traction (buyer base, income).
• You have a novel worth proposition available in the market(s) the place you use.
• Your begin-up ought to have an comprehensible and convincing enterprise mannequin (clear downside assertion and outlined buyer phase).
• You promote feminine visionary management, assist different feminine leaders and contribute to ladies’s financial empowerment.
• You are fostering a tradition that values range.
• Your work has a optimistic influence on fixing an necessary downside in trade.
• You contribute to start out-up ecosystem growth.

Application

The application deadline is May 12, 2025.

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For extra info, go to SAIS Female Founder Award.