The Orange Social Venture Prize is a Competition dedicated to rewarding innovative business ideas aimed at launching new products or services that meet three fundamental objectives: contributing to societal development, promoting innovation, and incorporating digital technologies into entrepreneurial solutions.

The Orange Social Venture Prize is a Competition dedicated to rewarding innovative business ideas aimed at launching new products or services that meet three fundamental objectives: contributing to societal development, promoting innovation, and incorporating digital technologies into entrepreneurial solutions.

Launched in 2011, the Prize is celebrating its 15th year and Orange teams in the region have been strongly engaged to make it happen. Since 2017, the Prize evolved in order to reward more startups: a first phase of national competitions takes place in the participating Orange countries (refer to the list of countries in the Rules document online https://startup.orange.com/en) and each country designates up to 3 national winners who automatically enter the International Grand Prize competition.

The International Women's Prize recognizes a woman or a project that uses technology to enhance women's living situations, including promoting independence, job creation or retention, gender data gathering, digital inclusion, and financial inclusion. The International Women's Prize represents Orange Group's dedication to women entrepreneurship. For the International Women’s Prize, the award is as follows: the payment of an amount of €20,000 (twenty thousand euros) funded by the Organizing Company.

Encouraging the emergence and success of women-led business projects.

1. The context of the Project, considering the fact that it is led by a woman in her capacity as founder or co-founder of the company presenting it.
2. The credibility of the Project as well as its financial viability over a minimum of 3    years.
3. The social and/or environmental impact: Projects will be evaluated according to the extent of their social and/or environmental impact.
4. The degree of innovation provided in the use of digital to improve people's living conditions in the following sectors: agriculture, health, education, energy, finance, trade, the environment etc.
5. The realistic and operational nature of the Project (a technological solution that will improve people’s living conditions, relevant information on the organization of the Project team to include at least one woman, team qualification and motivation, presence of partners associated with the Project etc.).
6. The Project’s presentation and feasibility as a whole (test phase and planned operational phase).

Apply for the OSVP International Women's Prize and make your voice heard in the world of entrepreneurship!

No, each participant must submit their project only once by selecting the country of deployment of the project in the online registration form. The Top 3 winners from each country will automatically be positioned to enter the International Grand Prize competition in order to win €25,000 - €15,000 or €10,000.

For entrepreneurs who wish to participate in the two additional prizes, they have to indicate it on the registration form by answering “Yes” to the following questions:

• My project aims to improve living conditions for women?
• My project allows, through digital technology, to improve the daily life of so-called "vulnerable" people (people in a situation of disability, exclusion, social and economic insecurity...)?

• Individuals aged 21 years or older as of the launch date of the Competition, that can demonstrate their business operations have been active for less than five (5) years at the start of the Competition.
• The submitted Project must be relevant to a territory or market that includes at least one country from the African continent or the Middle East where the Orange Group operates. The eligible countries are: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Jordan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Tunisia.

• Applicants have to submit their application form online at https://poesam.optimytool.com/en/. The application must comply with the competition rules, also available on the Orange Botswana website.
• In order to increase your chances of success in the Orange Social Venture Prize 2025, an Entrepreneur’s Guide is available in the OSVP section of the website.

• The Prize officially launches on 11 March 2025. Candidates can therefore submit their application as of 11 March 2025 (09:00am GMT) on https://poesam.optimytool.com/en/.
• The deadline for submissions is 18 May 2025 (9:00pm GMT).