Next Startupper Award
Pays the winning student entrepreneur a €5,000 prize plus VIP passes and a Main Stage pitch slot at VivaTech in Paris.
Applicants must be able to pitch and communicate in English, on top of being a current student with a project or startup under three years old. Judges score entries across four named areas: Entrepreneur Profile (vision, team complementarity, market and customer knowledge, and how well the pitch deck communicates the idea), Positive Impact (social or environmental benefit), Innovation (originality …
VivaTech wants current students building an entrepreneurial, innovative, tech or digital-oriented project or startup created less than three years ago, with meaningful social or environmental impact. Judges weigh the founder's vision and team, market and customer knowledge, the project's originality and innovation against existing alternatives, and its technical, economic and environmental scalability.
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