The Aurora Technology Award is an annual award for female IT startup founders whose projects have had the most profound impact on global development. The Aurora Tech Award was established to remind people that women are half of the creative intellectual potential of our civilization. In many technological fields, they have become the driving force of development and have done a lot of good in the world.

Requirements for Aurora Tech Award

  • Any female founder or co-founder of a company created in the last five years can be nominated for the award.
  • The key product of the candidate’s company must be based on information technology.
  • The candidate must hold a C-level position with the company at the time of application.

Reward:

  • First prize: $30,000
  • Second prize: $20,000
  • Third prize: $10,000

In addition to the economic prize, the entrepreneurs will receive access to the moving mentoring program and other opportunities.

The results will be published on March 8, 2023. The prize for first place is $30,000, second place $20,000 and third place $10,000.

Nomination procedure:

Any female founder or co-founder of a company created in the last five years can be nominated for the award. The key product of the candidate’s company must be based on information technology. The candidate must hold a C-level position with the company at the time of application.

The submission of nominations includes:

  1. The candidate’s main achievementsA short biography, detailing the challenges the candidate faced while working on her startup and the professional attributes that helped her overcome these obstacles.
  2. The successes of the startupA detailed description of the company, its achievements and an explanation of how the startup contributes to making the world a better place.
  3. The reason for the nomination A complete explanation of how the award will affect the life of the applicant, the company or a particular community.
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Chronology

First stage: receipt of applications

Applications will be received from October 3 to December 2, 2022.

Second stage: elaboration of a short list for the award

The award committee will then select the twenty strongest applications. On February 28, the list will be published on the award website.

Stage three: Publication of the results

The jury selects the award winners. The results of the Aurora Tech Award will be published on March 8.

Deadline for application: December 2, 2022.

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