Women in AV & Tech Startup Prize 2026 ($15,000 cash prize) – YOA

Deadline: April 22, 2026

Applications are open for the Women in AV & Tech Startup Prize 2026. The Women’s Entrepreneurship Prize is a worldwide competitors supporting early-stage girls founders with daring concepts and critical execution potential.

This initiative goals to again builders, not simply concepts, and to create actual alternatives for ladies founders in the AV ecosystem. They are in search of founders who know their market, can assume rigorously about execution, and are dedicated to constructing an actual enterprise. They are excited by recent views on actual issues and by robust concepts that transfer the business ahead, whether or not they’re new approaches or sensible evolutions of what already exists. They care extra about substance than polish, and extra about progress than guarantees.

The objective is easy: floor critical founders, reward robust pondering and execution potential, and supply early help to initiatives that may turn out to be actual corporations in the business.

Benefits

• The winner will obtain a $15,000 cash prize
• The winner can also obtain visibility and non-obligatory observe-up conversations with the jury or sponsor (not a promise of funding).

Eligibility

The competitors is open to initiatives at concept stage, prototype stage, or early firm stage.

Eligible ventures should:

• Be lady led or lady based.
• Operate in AV or carefully associated sectors equivalent to media know-how, collaboration options, dwell occasions, immersive applied sciences, office innovation, or adjoining tech fields.
• Be not more than 2 years previous on the time of application.
• Be at concept, prototype, pilot, or early income stage.
• A registered firm will not be required on the time of application. Solo founders and early groups are welcome.

Judging Criteria

Submissions will likely be evaluated on:

• Relevance and significance of the issue
• Credibility and readability of the answer
• Understanding of the market and buyer
• Strength of the founder’s perception and positioning
• Business logic and execution potential

Polish, buzzwords, and hype won’t outweigh weak fundamentals.

Application

Applicants should submit the next:

• A brief pitch deck (20 slides max),
• A brief video of the founders speaking about their related expertise and why they will take this product to market.

The submission should clearly cowl:

• The downside you’re fixing and for whom
• Your resolution and why it’s completely different or higher
• The goal market and buyer
• Why you or your group are properly positioned to construct this
• The enterprise mannequin (how this will generate profits)
• Current standing (concept, prototype, customers, income, pilots, and so on.)

Clarity issues greater than design. Overproduced slides won’t rating increased than clear pondering.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Women in AV & Tech Startup Prize.