TechCrunch is becoming a member of forces with VivaTech, Europe’s largest startup and tech occasion, to pick out startups for the celebrated VivaTech Innovation of the Yr at VivaTech 2025. This partnership will spotlight distinctive creativity, technological ingenuity, and industry-transforming potential amongst exhibiting startups.
The VivaTech Innovation of the Yr Award acknowledges and celebrates exhibiting startups at VivaTech 2025 that showcase excellent innovation, superior technological capabilities, and vital potential to revolutionize their respective {industry}.
TechCrunch will curate a shortlist of the highest 30 candidates, appoint a jury member to assist choose the ultimate prime 5, and take part on stage at VivaTech on June 11 alongside the complete jury through the remaining award presentation. On June 12, TechCrunch may even function the official host of the VivaTech International Awards Ceremony, the place the winners of the 5 VivaTech Awards will probably be introduced, offering the Grasp of Ceremony to steer the occasion with introductions, award transitions, and the closing second.
5 finalists will obtain a beneficial alternative to pitch on the VivaTech stage on June 11, achieve introductions to enterprise capitalists, get pleasure from unique networking with jury members, obtain excessive visibility throughout VivaTech advertising channels, and obtain two further 4-day passes to attend VivaTech 2025.
The Innovation of the Yr award winner may even safe a spot within the extremely aggressive Disrupt Startup Battlefield 200, with eligibility to current at TechCrunch’s flagship annual occasion held in San Francisco, CA in October 2025.
VivaTech Innovation of the Yr Award eligibility pointers:
- Have to be an exhibiting startup at VivaTech 2025
- Based in or after 2020
- Fewer than 50 staff
- Choice of 5 Finalists – June 4
- Finalists’ Pitch Session at VivaTech – June 11
- VivaTech International Awards Ceremony – June 12
About Viva Know-how
VivaTech accelerates innovation by connecting startups, tech leaders, main firms and buyers responding to our world’s largest challenges.
Annually, over 4 thrilling days in Paris, VivaTech creates Europe’s largest know-how and startup occasion, exploring probably the most disruptive subjects in tech with world-premiere demos, launches and conferences in a collaborative ecosystem. That is the place enterprise meets innovation. Participate to the ninth version of VivaTech 11-14 June 2025.
