vivatech-2025/" class="k-autolink">VivaTech 2025 was also the setting for great showcases of diversity in tech. The traditional Female Founder Challenge, which promotes female entrepreneurship, crowned Hélène Briand this year, co-founder and CTO of the startup Verley. Her exemplary journey was hailed during the award ceremony, sending a strong signal to women in the sector: role models exist and are recognized. More broadly, female presence tends to increase at VivaTech, whether among speakers or female startup founders in competition, even if balance is still far from being achieved. Another important aspect: innovation from Africa. The AfricaTech Awards 2025 program highlighted gems from the continent, selected from 492 applications. In the HealthTech category, the Kenyan startup Reme-D.Inc won the trophy, thanks to its e-health telemedicine solution adapted to rural areas, and was even named the overall winner across all sectors, testifying to the excellence of emerging African tech. Other winners include Plentify (South Africa) for GreenTech and Zeeh Africa (Nigeria) for FinTech, each illustrating the abundance of ideas aimed at solving local problems and expanding internationally. At the show, a Maison de l’Afrique brought together about forty African startups alongside initiatives like Digital Africa or Afrobytes, attracting the attention of investors looking for the next champions. This spotlight is part of VivaTech’s desire to promote a more inclusive tech, which integrates all diversities of gender, culture, and geography. Innovation is universal, and Paris showed it by offering a showcase both to women and to entrepreneurs from emerging markets. A small step further towards a more balanced global tech, rich in all its talents.
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