Sunday, April 13, 2025
Orange Egypt announces 15th edition of Orange Social Venture competition, with prizes up to €70,000
As part of its ongoing backing for Egyptian entrepreneurship,
Orange Egypt announces 15th edition of Orange Social Venture competition, with prizes up to €70,000
- Startup project applications are open until May 18, 2025.
- Talented women can apply for a €20,000 international award.
Orange Egypt has announced the opening of applications for the 15th edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize(OSVP) in 2025. The competition, with a total prize fund of €70,000, recognizes enterprises and startups that usetechnical innovation to find novel solutions to societal concerns. This demonstrates Orange's commitment tosupporting entrepreneurship and contributing to social and economic development by incentivizing technicalinnovation focused at producing solutions that effect good change at the community and environmental levels.
The competition is divided into two phases. The first is the local phase, during which Orange Egypt will acceptproposals from companies willing to participate in the competition platform via the URL https://poesam.optimytool.com/enuntil May 18, 2025. Then, a jury made up of entrepreneurial leaders and cadres,as well as Orange executives, will review the proposals and pick three winning local firms to advance to thecompetition's international round. They will compete against other qualifiers from different nations for threeprizes for the top three winners: €25,000 for first place, €15,000 for second place, and €10,000 for third place.
For the fifth consecutive year, the competition has awarded a grand prize to female entrepreneurs to enhance women'sparticipation in entrepreneurship in the region and to highlight Orange's commitment to supporting talented women inestablishing startups and providing them with the necessary support to continue their journey and contribute to thedevelopment of their communities. Each local competition will pick up to three female-led or co-founded businessesto compete for the €20,000 "International Women's Prize".
For her part, Maha Nagy, Chief Communications Officer Orange Egypt, emphasized that Orange's 15-year commitment toorganizing the competition demonstrates its belief in the importance of technological innovation andentrepreneurship in addressing societal challenges, as well as its belief in startups' ability to positively impactsociety.
She went on to say, "In view of the fast advancements in the technology industry and entrepreneurship, Orange isdedicated to offering a platform for financing and technical assistance for new initiatives that use technology toenhance society and the environment. We are proud of our competition's long history of supporting sustainabledevelopment and helping to create new solutions that improve people's lives in their communities".