Deadline: 19-Feb-21
Women Who Tech has launched the Emerging Tech Challenge to fund innovative women-led startups. Tech startups play a pivotal role in the future of this world by driving innovative solutions forward.
The Emerging Tech Grant is designed to fund women-led ventures focused on solving the biggest problems facing this world.
The Women Who Tech is one of the largest networks of women-led startups, investors, and allies working to increase diversity and funding in tech.
Funding Information
- The Women Who Tech will award one Innovation Grant of $15,000 USD, and one Impact Grant of $5,000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant startup must be based within Africa, Europe, or North America.
- Applicant product must be in beta or already launched to the public. The only exception to this rule is for Ag Tech/Food Tech, Robotics, and Mobility/Transportation startups who must either be in prototype phase, in beta, or already launched to the public. Applicant may not apply if they are only in the concept stage.
- Note: A prototype is an initial model built to test applicant product; it is not just a design or a wireframe.
- Applicant cannot have raised more than $5M USD from combined sources.
- Applicant startup must incorporate technology into the approach of their product, which allows the company to rapidly and massively scale in a manner that traditional, independent small businesses cannot. Please note that using tech (i.e. hosting a blog, selling products on website, or using social media in marketing) does not qualify as using tech to scale on a mass level nationally and globally.
- Fast growing with degrees of innovation.
- All ideas must be original work or an improvement upon an existing idea without infringements.
- Applicants are a technical founder or they have a technical cofounder. Note: If this does not apply to applicant, please email and tell more about setup.
- Applicant must be a woman-led startup, defined as having at least one woman founder or cofounder on the team. Note: Women Who Tech uses an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female”, and the program welcome transwomen, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who identify as gender-nonconforming, female, and/or woman. People who identify within gender identities associated within the male and/or man spectrums are asked not to apply to uplift space and access for people of genders that are historically oppressed and underfunded.
For more information, visit https://womenwhotech.com/