Tech for Change Award 2026 – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Tech for Change Award 2026. Built on the conviction that financial worth and optimistic influence can reinforce one another, the Tech For Change acknowledges exhibiting startups that place measurable optimistic influence on the core of their enterprise mannequin.

VivaTech is the place innovation meets enterprise, and the place innovation meets influence. In 2026, for the second version of the Tech For Change, the popularity highlights 500 impactful exhibiting startups fostering options in three predominant areas: Environment, Society, and Health.

From all of the Tech For Change acknowledged startups, essentially the most excellent ventures enter the Tech For Change Award choice: the Top 30 (10 per class) and the Top 6 finalists (2 per class). The 6 finalists will pitch dwell on Wednesday, 17 June 2026, on the Pitch Studio stage, earlier than the Grand Winner is introduced the following day at VivaTech’s Global Innovation Awards Ceremony on Stage One, incomes main visibility all through the occasion. 

Benefits

For the Top 500

• Enhanced visibility on-line (VivaTech social media, web site, app, The Big List) and on-website (label signage in your nook, Wall of Fame…)
• Dedicated onboarding with the VivaTech Sustainability Team.

For the Top 30

• Pitch alternatives on VivaTech phases (Discovery Stage, Arenas).
• Targeted audiences through curated codecs (Tech Trails, Learning Expeditions).
• Visibility throughout channels (VivaTech social media, web site, e-newsletter, Les Echos itemizing).

For the Top 6 finalists

• High visibility in the course of the occasion (VivaTech News, Les Echos).
• Featured in Tech For Change Tech Trail, VivaTech Tech Trails and Impact Tour.
• Final pitch on the Pitch Studio Stage in entrance of a high jury + non-public networking session.
• 1 VIP cross and investor conferences.

For the Grand Winner

• Free startup nook for VivaTech 2027.
• Stage One pitch in the course of the Global Innovation Awards ceremony.
• Year-round integration into the VivaTech community.
• Extensive visibility (e-newsletter, devoted interviews publish-occasion, Les Echos portrait).

Eligibility

• Open to startups exhibiting on the VivaTech Event, held 17-20 June 2026, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, and that place environmental, social, or well being points on the core of their enterprise mannequin.
• An exhibiting startup is outlined as any impartial firm with fewer than 200 staff, created lower than eight years in the past, that has both bought an exhibition house for the Event or has been invited to exhibit by means of a nook on a associate’s stand on the Event.
• Only one entry per collaborating startup will likely be accepted. Submissions should be written in English.

Selection Criteria

• Positive Impact: Startups with influence embedded of their enterprise mannequin, delivering measurable optimistic outcomes for surroundings, society or well being.
• Tech: The resolution should be tech-pushed, with know-how on the core of the product and enterprise mannequin.
• Innovation: Level of relevance, originality, and innovation demonstrated by the tech resolution.
• Scalability & Viability: Ability to scale whereas remaining technically, economically and environmentally viable.

Application

Apply now and be a part of within the tenth version of VivaTech, happening 17–20 June 2026 in Paris. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Tech For Change Award.