WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs Competition 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Applications are open for the WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs Competition 2026. The WeXchange 2026 Women STEMpreneurs Competition seeks to establish probably the most progressive and dynamic STEM (science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic) ladies entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean to attach them with potential funding alternatives. This version is organized with the help of the enterprise capital fund EWA Capital.

If you’re a feminine co-founder or part of the management crew (C-stage) of a startup that’s elevating capital or about to begin a financing spherical, from pre-seed to Series B, apply now. You may be one of many 5 chosen and pitch your organization in San Salvador to buyers and key gamers within the innovation ecosystem of Latin America and the Caribbean on October 5–7, through the GET Forum: Global Entrepreneurship and Technology Forum, an IDB Group Innovation for Impact Platform. 

Benefits

• As a specific participant of this name, you’ll journey to Quito and current your online business to buyers and key gamers within the innovation ecosystem of Latin America and the Caribbean on October 5–7, 2026, through the GET Forum: Global Entrepreneurship and Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean, an IDB Group Innovation for Impact Platform.
• As a specific participant of this name, you’ll obtain visibility, press, and dissemination alternatives on your firm.
• As a specific participant of this name, you’ll obtain help to attach with enterprise capital buyers.

The prize of this name consists of journey and lodging bills for the feminine founder/co-founder or director (C-suite) of the corporate, who might be pitching.

Eligibility

• Startups with not less than one lady within the founding or management crew (C-suite). 
• Startups which can be actively elevating capital from seed rounds to collection A/B or planning an funding spherical inside the subsequent 12 months from the beginning of the decision for functions.
• Startups with a excessive technological part or the place science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) are key items, together with sectors comparable to fintech, edtech, agtech, healthtech, biotech, e-commerce, transportation/mobility, logistics, digital safety, cleantech, tourism, SaaS for SMEs, amongst others.
• Legally included startups with headquarters or operations in not less than one nation in Latin America or the Caribbean.
• Startups with extremely scalable enterprise fashions at a regional/international stage and excessive potential for social and/or environmental influence.
• Founders who haven’t been chosen as finalists within the final 4 editions, until they apply with a brand new firm.

Selection Criteria

• Profile of the founding crew, earlier expertise, and skill to execute.
• Differentiating/disruptive aspect of the proposed answer.
• Growth potential & market dimension.
• Viability of the enterprise mannequin.
• Scalability potential. 
• Potential for social and/or environmental influence. 
• Performance and traction thus far.

Application

The application might be submitted by way of an on-line application kind. The deadline to apply is June 30, 2026 (11:59 p.m., ET).

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For extra data, go to WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs Competition.