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FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY EXPO FATE PITCH COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: August 15, 2025 at 11:59pm Eastern Time.

LOCATION: USA

The FATE Pitch Stage is the place for finance and accounting startups to network and make deals. FATE Pitch Stage Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their products or services to our audience of venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, and potential customers such as CFOs, VPs of finance, controllers, and IT executives.

The FATE Pitch Stage application is FREE and closes August 15, 2025

ELIGIBILITY:

There is no fee to apply.

The submitted product or service must have been launched no earlier than January 2022.

Companies must not have raised more than $10 million in funding from combined funding sources.

Startups can only enter one product or service in the competition.

The submitted product or service must fall under one of the FATE Pitch Stage tracks.

Prior FATE Pitch Stage Finalists are not eligible to participate.

Each Finalist will be granted 2 minutes to pitch, followed by 3 minutes of Q&A with a panel of judges who have investment experience in the Finalist’s space.

 They strongly encourage all applicants to submit a brief video pitching the company. This pitch video should be one (1) minute or less and should feature the applicant speaking to the camera—we want to see how you pitch, not what your video editing software can do.

THeY also strongly encourage you to upload a current pitch deck (no longer than 10 slides), along with a marketing video demonstrating your product or service or a video of you pitching at a prior event. Our application committee weighs these materials heavily.

BENEFIT:

FATE Pitch Stage Finalists will also receive free registration to all FATE programming, access to professional coaching, and a chance to win a $2,500 prize!

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PRINCE CLAUS FUND BUILDING BEYOND CYCLE 5 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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Application Deadline: 13 August 2025 at 17.00 Amsterdam time. 

LOCATION: Africa

Building Beyond brings together 9 mid-career creatives (± 7-15 years of relevant professional experience) working across diverse mediums, approaches, and interpretations of the overarching theme. Supported by 3 Senior Fellows, this cohort will come together over the course of 9 months to support each participant in their own individual practice and how to activate it in their context and to facilitate conversation and exchange between the cohort, its growing network, and relevant external practitioners.

ELIGIBILITY:

With this open call we invite applications from individual, mid-career artists and cultural practitioners who:

Are from, live and work in our eligible countries on the African continent. *Please note that that is an expanded list from previous years, so if you have not been eligible before, please check if you are eligible now.  

Are artists, cultural practitioners, or creatives whose individual practice relates to architecture, design, spatial practice, public space, and urban communities. When referring to artists and cultural practitioners we mean people who have an individual artistic practice. We hold a broad definition of art and culture and appreciate interdisciplinary practices. Individuals who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers or others, without an individual artistic practice, do not fall under this category, and as such are not eligible to apply.  

Have ±7-15 years of relevant professional experience. The Fellows Award is meant only for individual artists who, regardless of age, meet the professional experience criteria, counting from the date they started engaging in a professional artistic practice to the date of submitting their application.

Are able to communicate in English to keep in line with the communication in the Fellows award programme.  

BENEFIT:

Each participant receives an Award of €10,000 and guidance from the Senior Fellows Fellows to work on the concept for a body of work that is outlined in their application. While the grant is not limited to a strict project plan or budget, the participant’s proposed project will be used as a baseline for the programme and will orient its content. 

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