TechCrunch is becoming a member of forces with VivaTech, Europe’s greatest startup and tech occasion, to pick startups for the distinguished 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 important 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 high 5, and take part on stage at VivaTech on June 11 alongside the total jury throughout the ultimate 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 shall be introduced, offering the Grasp of Ceremony to guide the occasion with introductions, award transitions, and the closing second.
5 finalists will obtain a invaluable alternative to pitch on the VivaTech stage on June 11, achieve introductions to enterprise capitalists, take pleasure in unique networking with jury members, obtain excessive visibility throughout VivaTech advertising channels, and obtain two extra 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:
- Should 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 corporations and traders responding to our world’s greatest challenges.
Annually, over 4 thrilling days in Paris, VivaTech creates Europe’s greatest know-how and startup occasion, exploring essentially the most disruptive subjects in tech with world-premiere demos, launches and conferences in a collaborative ecosystem. That is the place enterprise meets innovation. Take part to the ninth version of VivaTech 11-14 June 2025.