Applications are open for the SAIS Female Founder Award 2025. This award recognizes visionaries who have accomplished success in their fields, create reasonable social impact, and encourage other women to commence or grow their own businesses.
About SAIS Female Founder Award
Opportunity Details
The SAIS Female Founder Award is an initiative by "Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups" (SAIS), a project implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The SAlS vision is to transform the food systems by being the leading community for tech ventures in emerging markets. The start-ups they support must offer solutions that lead to income growth, improved nutrition or adaptation to climate change.
With the SAIS Female Founder Award, their aim is to strengthen the visibility of female-led start-ups and to promote a more equitable and dynamic landscape for female founders to become the next 'gazelles' and succeed in building a unicorn in Africa.
Benefits of SAIS Female Founder Award
Prize
For the three winners the prize include:
1st Place:
- Vouchers: up to €12,000
- Services: up to €18,000
2nd Place:
- Vouchers: up to €5,000
- Services: up to €10,000
3rd Place:
- Vouchers: up to €3,000
- Services: up to €4,000
SAIS Female Founder Award Requirements
- Your business is registered and operates on then African continent.
- Your business has an official certificate of registration.
- You are an African female who (co)founded and runs a start-up / growth stage business.
- You should have technical experience in your area of operation.
- At least three people who work full-time for the start-up (including yourself as a founder).
- Your product/service is digital or has a strong digital component.
- Your product is offering an impactful solution in the Ag Tech, Food Tech or ClimateTech sectors in Africa.
- Your company has been registered at least 2 years before submitting the application.
- Your start-up must have clear evidence of traction (customer base, revenue).
- You have a unique value proposition in the markets) where you operate.
- Your start-up should have an understandable and convincing business model (clear problem statement and defined customer segment).
- You promote female visionary leadership, support other female leaders and contribute to women's economic empowerment.
- You are fostering a culture that values diversity.
- Your work has a positive impact on solving an important problem in industry.
- You contribute to start-up ecosystem development.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
12 May, 2025
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