Announcing the TiE Women’s Global Pitch Competition 2023

The TiE Women Chandigarh Chapter is pleased to announce the 4th Edition of TiE Women Global Pitch Competition 2023

An Opportunity to win $100,000 prize money @ TGS in Singapore (Nov 2023)

TiE Women is dedicated to Embrace, Engage and Empower women entrepreneurs across the globe. The program is aligned with TiE’s pillars focused on fostering entrepreneurship. The sector-agnostic program is focused on women-led startups, irrespective of the size of their enterprise, origin, standing or background.

The vision is set to be achieved through a solid mission of sustainable and easy-to-adapt programming for all 61 chapters of TiE Global that will track the entire entrepreneurial journey with solid outcome metrics. The program is built on the Pillars of TiE Global: Learning, Mentoring, Access to Funding, Scalability, Safe Space and Community.

Agenda
  • Inclusion of women in the formal startup ecosystem of the region: After a basic recce, we found out that most of the women entrepreneurs work in the shadows, and their companies, products, and services are hardly known or seen in the startup community. The agenda is to get these women out of their cubholes and be seen as serious contenders for funding, scaling up, or both!!
  • Access to the global community of TiE for Networking and Mentoring – both at the global level and the local level.
  • Funding via our investor network – both within TiE and outside of it.
  • Access to high-quality Masterclasses over the year. These classes may include topics such as -How to build your brand, Understanding Digital Marketing, How to create the perfect pitch deck, etc.
  • The Business Plan Competition – women entrepreneurs from our region get a chance to participate in the global pitch competition in collaboration with Empower – India’s first Accelerator for women. There is prize money of 100K USD at the final pitch + Bootcamps + Access to global investors + Prizes at the chapter level.
Why TiE Women?

An excellent opportunity to win equity free cash prizes of upto $100,000.

Access to the global community of TiE for Networking and Mentoring Funding via our investor networks.

Access to high quality master classes over the year.

Opportunity to participate in the global pitch competition to be held at Singapore in November 2023.

*In case the travel restrictions extend beyond the end of this year, we will be inevitably forced to host a virtual final Pitch Competition.

Who Can Apply?

Female-founded or co-founded startups ONLY. (The opportunity to pitch will only be provided to the female founder/co-founder).

Female co-founder(s) must majority/equal founder equity in the company.

Companies in business for less than seven years only at the time of application (Company registration after Jan 1, 2016).

Rules for Applying
Early stage Late stage
  • Less than 3 years
  • May have received its initial, or seed funding
  • Company has an MVP
  •  Less than 7 years
  • The product or service is commercially available
  • Registered sales
  • Companies in business for less than 7 years only (date of registration of company not earlier than Jan 1, 2015).
  • The startup should be registered in the state. In case the Chapter in the registered state is not participating then the startup can participate in the nearest city by geographic proximity. Ask for residential proof of address. Utility bill.
  • Women-led or Women Co-owned startups only: The co-founder (male or female) can travel to Dubai on their own expense. They can pitch together if it’s the case in the Video intake at the time of application.
  • We encourage registered companies to apply, not mandatory for pitch competition but essential to be potentially investible.
  • Application Form – One startup can only apply to one Chapter worldwide. To ensure this, TiE Women has mandated a centralized form this year.
  • Women-led or Women co-owned startups only. The co-founder (male or female) can travel to Dubai on their own expense. They can pitch together ifit’s the case in the Video intake at the time of application. (Minimum stake33%)
  • We encourage registered companies to apply, not mandatory for pitch competition but essential to be potentially investible
  • Membership – Top finalists have to be members of the TiE local chapter, before they travel for the finals.
  • Judges independent of TiE, inclusive of angel investors or VCs. Screening committee for entries should comprise of CMs, Board Members, preferably angel investors.

*We are not accepting applications from idea-stage ventures; only Early and Late Stage startups.

Kanika Radhakrishnan

Program Director – TiE Women

Shameema Parveen

TiE DUBAI

TiE Women Chapter Level Winners 2022


winner

TiE Women Chandigarh Chapter – Team
Mr. Robin Aggarwal

President TiE Chandigarh

Mr. Harit Mohan

Vice President, TiE Chandigarh & Mentor, TiE Women

Kanika Rajdev

TiE Women Chapter Lead – Chandigarh Chapter

Shakti Kaur

TiE Women Co Lead – Chandigarh Chapter

Komal Sharma Talwar

Mentor – TiE Chandigarh

Anjum Singh

ED TiE Chandigarh

Ashu Sharma

Relationship Manager TiE Chandigarh

Mayank Bhasin

Marketing/Event Management Executive

For more details contact Ashu Sharma

Phone: +919855836111

Email: accounts@tiechandigarh.org