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The Female Founders – ACT NOW Award, African Challenge launched by managerohnegrenzen and encourageventures brings together female founded startups or other entities that have viable, innovative business solutions and a broad angel investor community. <\/p>\n
The ACT NOW Award in the origin is an award for outstanding entrepreneurial readiness in the global south. The aim is to give this achievement the recognition it deserves and to provide a stage for it. It is for successful, committed, independent entrepreneurs and companies in low-and middle-income countries. Therefore, the award recognizes companies that have demonstrated particular commitment in the areas of innovation, sustainability and social responsibility. <\/p>\n
The Female Founders – ACT NOW Award, African Challenge is designed to showcase and recognize the innovation of female founded or co-founded startups or other entities with a female in the executive leadership team, as the case may be in Africa. The Challenge offers finalists the opportunity to present their solutions in front of angel investors from the encourageventures network as well as executives from managerohnegrenzen late September 2023 at a virtual event. In addition, an experienced jury will select 6 finalists on September 7th and 3 winners on September 21st, 2023 who will go home with some prestigious prizes from managerohnegrenzen and encourageventures. <\/p>\n
Another highlight of the evening will be the audience award. All interested parties can cast their vote for one of the 6 finalists in the evening for the audience award. The winner of the audience award will be rewarded with valuable prizes from managerohnegrenzen and encourageventures.<\/p>\n
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The condition is that the prize is used for an entrepreneurial purpose or a special investment for the winning company.<\/p>\nWho can apply?<\/h3>\n
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What do we<\/span><\/strong> need from you?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
The Judges<\/h3>\n
Selection Criteria<\/h3>\n
About Managerohnegrenzen<\/h3>\n
About encourageventures<\/h3>\n