Gap in Between: Startup Challenge 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 14, 2025

Applications for the Gap in Between: Startup Challenge 2025 are actually open. The Startup Challenge of The Gap in Between is a global name designed to spice up entrepreneurship as a driver of social and environmental transformation. They search to establish and showcase startups which might be creating progressive options to at the moment’s most pressing challenges.

Through this problem, they not solely join influence-pushed entrepreneurs with sources, capital, and strategic allies but additionally place them on the middle of a worldwide dialog in regards to the future they intention to construct: fairer, extra inclusive, regenerative, and collaborative.

Categories

The Startup Challenge is open to startups at two totally different maturity ranges to make sure truthful and tailor-made analysis:

• Early Stage: Startups with a launched MVP, early validation metrics, and a enterprise mannequin in consolidation section.
• Growth Stage: Startups with market traction, lively prospects, and a enterprise mannequin in enlargement.

Prizes

For the 20 Early-Stage semifinalists and 10 Growth Stage finalists:

• Personalized bodily cubicles on the occasion
• Early-Stage Winner: €5,000
• Growth Stage Winner: €10,000
• Access to a community of traders, mentors, and prime-tier occasions (4YFN, South Summit, and so on.)
• Matchmaking with key ecosystem gamers

Eligibility

To apply, startups should:

• Be legally integrated for a minimum of one yr.
• Have a validated MVP and a sustainable enterprise mannequin.
• Fit inside one of many Challenge’s thematic verticals.
• Generate optimistic social or environmental influence.

Application

Startups should full the identical on-line kind, detailing their proposal, traction metrics, enterprise mannequin, influence, and workforce.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Gap in Between: Startup Challenge.