TechCrunch is becoming a member of forces with VivaTech, Europe’s greatest startup and tech occasion, to pick startups for the celebrated VivaTech Innovation of the Year at VivaTech 2025. This partnership will spotlight distinctive creativity, technological ingenuity, and industry-transforming potential amongst exhibiting startups.
The VivaTech Innovation of the Year 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 onstage at VivaTech on June 11 alongside the complete jury throughout the closing award presentation. On June 12, TechCrunch will even function the official host of the VivaTech Global Awards Ceremony, the place the winners of the 5 VivaTech Awards will likely be introduced, offering the Master of Ceremony to guide the occasion with introductions, award transitions, and the closing second.
Five finalists will obtain a priceless 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 and marketing channels, and obtain two further four-day passes to attend VivaTech 2025.
The Innovation of the Year award winner will 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 in October 2025.
VivaTech Innovation of the Year Award eligibility pointers:
- Must be an exhibiting startup at VivaTech 2025
- Founded in or after 2020
- Fewer than 50 workers
- Selection of 5 Finalists – June 4
- Finalists’ Pitch Session at VivaTech – June 11
- VivaTech Global Awards Ceremony – June 12
About Viva Technology
VivaTech accelerates innovation by connecting startups, tech leaders, main corporations, and buyers responding to our world’s greatest challenges.
Each 12 months, over 4 thrilling days in Paris, VivaTech creates Europe’s greatest expertise and startup occasion, exploring essentially the most disruptive subjects in tech with world-premiere demos, launches, and conferences in a collaborative ecosystem. This is the place enterprise meets innovation. Take half within the ninth version of VivaTech 11-14 June 2025.
