She Loves Tech’s Annual Global Startup Competition, which is said to be the world’s startup competition for women and technology, is returning for the sixth time this year with fully online competition and conference.
Despite the pandemic, the organiser stated that the competition will expand yet again due to overwhelming response. It will be held virtually for startups in over 30 countries across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.
It counted institutions such as ATAST, Circle, Girls in Tech Macau, Gobi Partners, Hatch, Kerala Startup Mission, Longyan, NCSF, QBO, Yazamiyot, Raintree, Tanggram, Techcode, Turtle Venture, Unlimited, and Women In Tech HK as organising partners and Asian Development Bank Ventures as Official Impact Partner.
“One of the things we’re most excited about is that going fully online gives us a great opportunity to reach a wider audience and help even more entrepreneurs than we ever could have,” She Loves Tech co-founders Leanne Robers, Rhea See, and Virginia Tan said in a press statement.
The competition is searching for startups that filled the following criteria:
1. Early stage startups
The startups should be seeking for angel, seed, or Series A funding round of under US$5 million with at least a minimum viable product (MVP).
2. Gender lens
The startups should fulfil one of the following gender lens: Having a female founder, a majority of female users/consumers, and a tech that impacts women’s life positively.
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For Singapore-based startups, the registration deadline will close on August 7 while the competition will be held on August 26. For details on other countries’ deadlines and competition dates, please refer to this site.
The competition gives the world’s most promising women-led or women-impact startups mentorship and guidance to grow and scale their business and showcases them to a global audience of top investors and influencers from the tech community.
Previous ambassadors, mentors, judges and speakers include Tim Draper (Founder, Draper University), Ankiti Bose (CEO, Zilingo), Arielle Zuckerberg (Partner, Coatue Management), Jane Sun (CEO, CTrip), and Lesly Goh (Former CTO, World Bank).
From the previous years, alumni startups of the programme have gone on to raise over US$100 million in aggregate funding from some of the world’s top investors, including Sequoia Capital, Vertex Ventures, Wavemaker, Microsoft and Amazon.
The She Loves Tech conference itself has gathered more than 3,000 delegates (with 67 per cent of them being women) from at least 30 countries within the last five years. It consisted of keynote speeches, pitches, panels, and breakout session.
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