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Women Startup Competition
Women Startup Competition (WSC) is a non-profit business incubation platform based in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs and gender-diverse teams across Europe. It provides training, networking, mentorship, and investment opportunities to enhance women's roles in business.
Overview
What Women Startup Competition does
What Women Startup Competition is
Women Startup Competition (WSC) is a non-profit business incubation platform based in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs and gender-diverse teams across Europe. It provides training, networking, mentorship, and investment opportunities to enhance women's roles in business.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2012
- Approximate age
- About 14 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 19, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Women Startup Competition as a community
Community overview
Women Startup Competition (WSC) is an independent, non-profit business incubation platform founded to support women entrepreneurs in their early years. The organization operates in 10 countries and aims to provide women entrepreneurs with a supportive community and resources to help them realize their business aspirations.
Community focus
WSC focuses on supporting women-led startups across various sectors, including AI & Software, Sustainability & Climate, Biotech & Health, EdTech, Beauty & Fashion, Media & Creative, Hardware & Manufacturing, and B2B Services. The competition is open to startups at any stage, from idea to early revenue, and seeks to connect participants with investors and mentors.
Member value
Members gain access to a supportive community, mentorship, training, and opportunities to pitch to investors. The competition also offers significant prizes and investment opportunities.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community and bootcamp
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Sectors
- Artificial IntelligenceClimate & SustainabilityBiotech & Life SciencesEducationConsumerMedia & Entertainment
- Regions
- Global
Community activity
- Annual events
- 1
Events and activity
WSC runs an annual competition that includes several stages: Registration, Semifinal Bootcamp, Pitch to Local Jury, Startup Evaluation, Final Bootcamp, and Final Competition, where participants compete for over €50,000 in prizes and investment.
Notable members
Finalists from recent competitions include NoLimbah (Indonesia), What's your FLAN? (Philippines), Cyber Morfosis (Albania), Clearchain (Italy), Livert (France), mCubed (Greece), Fertitude (Nigeria), Plearn (Italy), SensiVR-health (Poland), and SkoolTek by EdFolio (Philippines).
Common questions
What to know about Women Startup Competition
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Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 19, 2026
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