Deadline Date: April 12, 2026
The Bold Woman Award invites applications from women entrepreneurs to recognize their leadership, entrepreneurial journey, and business success.
The awards focus on recognizing accomplished women entrepreneurs for their business achievements and leadership while also supporting emerging women entrepreneurs who have created or taken over a business within the past five years.
The Bold Woman Award celebrates an established woman entrepreneur for her career journey and the success of her company, while the Bold Future Award recognizes a woman entrepreneur who has created or taken over a company within the last five years and is demonstrating strong potential for growth.
To be eligible, the candidate must be an adult and should be the founder, co-founder, manager, or legal representative of a company headquartered in the country where she is applying. For the Bold Woman Award category, the applicant must have been leading the company for more than five years.
As part of the application process, candidates are required to provide general information about themselves and their company, including details such as company name, address, creation date, legal registration number, main business activity, number of employees, turnover for 2023, and whether the company has raised funds.
Applicants will also be asked to briefly explain their entrepreneurial journey, how their business idea was created, their involvement in developing the project, what makes their concept innovative, challenges faced along the way, future business plans, CSR initiatives, the role of their company in society, actions taken to encourage entrepreneurship, inspirations or role models, motivations for applying for the award, and how they learned about the prize.
Supporting documents such as a CV, company presentation, or financial statements may also be attached to strengthen the application.
For more information, visit Bold Open Database.
