Women Advancing Venture and Entrepreneurship Competition (WAVE) 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Women Advancing Venture and Entrepreneurship Competition (WAVE) 2025. Are you a number one UK-primarily based know-how founder? Want to lift consciousness of your begin-up internationally? This competitors is for you.

HM Treasury has estimated that the UK may benefit from as much as £250bn in new financial worth if ladies within the UK began and scaled companies on the similar charge as males. The Office for Investment’s (OFI) Venture Capital Unit (VCU) is launching a nationwide marketing campaign to establish the UK’s high 10 ladies tech founders advancing enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Benefits

These founders can have the OPPORTUNITY to:

• characteristic in a lookbook circulated to VC and CVC traders internationally
• attend and pitch at a breakfast session with outstanding traders
• meet with senior VC or company mentors
• be a part of additional authorities and trade occasions to satisfy traders and collaborators

Eligibility

The founder have to be:

• a girl
• the only real or joint founding father of a British know-how enterprise
• prepared to take part in authorities initiatives

The founder’s enterprise should:

• be seeking to increase at the very least £5m over the following monetary 12 months
• have some market traction in place (early revenues, scientific or buyer trials and IP)

Application

Register for the competitors by Tuesday, 30 September 2025. Once submissions have been acquired, the Venture Capital Unit will assessment them and announce the 2025 cohort in October.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to WAVE Competition.