The Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS) Female Founder Award 2025

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Application Deadline: May 12, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS) Female Founder Award. The SAIS Female Founder Award is an initiative by “Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS), a undertaking applied by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Requirements

To be eligible for the SAIS Female Founder Award, you will need to meet the next circumstances: 

Legal type

• Your enterprise is registered and operates on the African continent.
• Your enterprise has an official certificates of registration.

Founder

• You are an African feminine who (co)based and runs a start-up / progress stage enterprise.
• You ought to have technical expertise in your space of operation.

Team

• At least three individuals who work full-time for the start-up (together with your self as a founder).

Digital product/ service

• Your product/service is digital or has a robust digital element.
• Your product is providing an impactful resolution within the AgTech, FoodTech or ClimateTech sectors in Africa.

Market entry and traction

• Your firm has been registered at the least 2 years earlier than submitting the application.
• Your start-up should have clear proof of traction (buyer base, income).

Business mannequin

• You have a singular worth proposition available in the market(s) the place you use.
• Your start-up ought to have an comprehensible and convincing enterprise mannequin (clear downside assertion and outlined buyer phase).

Benefits

The award acknowledges feminine founders from Africa with distinctive companies which have a robust digital element and embrace social affect. We honour, assist and rejoice your ambition by providing distinctive Opportunities for visibility and additional improvement of your enterprise.

The three winners will win in-kind assist value as much as 30,000€ for the primary place, as much as 15,000€ for the second place, and as much as 7,000€ for the third place. This in-kind assist could be vouchers and numerous tailor-made providers to greatest increase their enterprise, together with:

• Vouchers for particular bills (e.g. on-line coaching, software program licenses, and different providers.)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS) Female Founder Award