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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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AAUW INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS (MASTER’S AND DOCTORATE DEGREES)

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Application Period: August 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025

LOCATION: USA

AAUW’s International Fellowships promote education and equity for women by investing in international applicants who will be pursuing postgraduate studies or research in the U.S., with the intention of applying their expertise, professional skills, and leadership in the context of their home countries.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be or identify as a woman.

Applicants must be admitted or enrolled in their first master’s or an academic or professional doctorate degree at the time of application. Examples of master’s degrees include but are not limited to M.A., M.S., M.B.A., M.F.A., L.L.M., M.Arch. Examples of academic and professional doctorate degrees include but are not limited to D.B.A., Ed.D., J.D., M.D., or Ph.D.

Applicants must begin their program on or before September 1, 2026, and complete it on or after April 30, 2027.

Applicants must possess at least one academic degree (earned in the U.S. or abroad) that is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree. While applicants may hold multiple degrees, they must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale for the highest degree earned. Applicants may apply for only one degree type (either a Master’s or Doctoral program) and in a single specific field (e.g., Business, History, Physics, etc.). In the case of applicants pursuing a dual degree, they must select one of the fields.

Applicants must pursue their study in the U.S. on a full-time basis at an institution accredited by the U.S. Department of Education.

Applicants must reside in the U.S. or country of their research for the duration of the fellowship period.

Applicants intending to study in another country other than their own or the U.S. must be members of Graduate Women International and pursue study at an international institution recognized as eligible to participate in U.S. federal student aid programs, as listed on the Federal Student Aid Participating Schools list. (Foreign branches of U.S. institutions are considered outside of the U.S.)

Applicants interested in pursuing postdoctoral research are encouraged to consider AAUW’s International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

BENEFIT:

International Fellowships carry a stipend of $20,000 for a master’s degree and $25,000 for a doctorate degree. Stipends are payable to fellows only and are disbursed in two equal payments at the beginning and the midpoint of the fellowship term.

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