Women Innovative Entrepreneurship

The European Venture Contest – Women innovative Entrepreneurship (EVC-WiE) is an online contest and a unique concept entirely dedicated to female entrepreneurship. The online contest aims to promote innovative companies led by women or with women in leadership positions in the ICT, Life Science and Cleantech industries.

They will be given the opportunity to present their companies and underline the importance of women entrepreneurship in male-dominated business industries. An expert jury will expose the best 10 online qualifiers to present at EVS. EVC-WiE is a direct qualification process to the 8th edition of the European Venture Summit (EVS). 

Every year we have seen a low % (<7,5%) of women entrepreneurs both as candidates as well as selected companies or top quartile finalists. We also see a gender imbalance in the number of Women Entrepreneurs being particularly weak in the ICT/digital and energy-related businesses and somewhat better in the life sciences and food innovation sectors. This is particularly worrisome as innovative SMEs represent above average growth and investment opportunities.

Therefore, we decided to put a special theme and stream this year for Women innovative Entrepreneurship. The European Venture Contest – Women innovative Entrepreneurship (EVC-WiE) is the contest stream dedicated to female innovative entrepreneurship and investment.