Bitget Awards Women Entrepreneurs at the Pitch’n Slay Competition


Bitget, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, hosted its first-ever pitch competition for women entrepreneurs in blockchain and crypto — Pitch’n Slay — as part of the 0xConnect conference. Winners received cash prizes, gifts from organizers and sponsors, as well as valuable feedback and recommendations from the event’s jury.
"Pitch’n Slay is part of the large-scale global initiative Blockchain4Her , launched by Bitget last year at the initiative of the company's CEO Gracy Chen. The main goal of the program is to support talented women building their businesses in the blockchain sector. Pitch’n Slay helps participants present their projects to a wider audience, receive feedback, and obtain financial support, which is crucial at the early stages of startup development," said Elizaveta Yurchenko, Head of Bitget in the CIS region.
The competition received more than 15 applications, from which the jury selected 5 projects for the final presentation:
● DFS Finance — a fundamental ecosystem of financial products based on advanced DeFi platforms.
● NET Platform for Subscription-Based Businesses — an NFT platform tailored for subscription business models.
● StartON — an innovative platform for launching and promoting tokens, offering convenient and profitable conditions for founders, influencers, and users.
● WarpSeek — an intelligent assistant for analyzing and processing information on Warpcaster/Farcaster, automating content categorization to help users navigate vast data flows.
● TractionEye — a decentralized asset trust management platform utilizing the Pooled Social Trading mechanism.
The jury panel included:
● Elizaveta Yurchenko, Head of Bitget CIS
● Vladimir Smerkis, Co-founder of Blum.io
● Alena Afanasyeva, Founder and CEO of BeInCrypto
● Amir, Founder of 0xConnect
● Anastasia Staroverova, Founder of Connect Community
"Each project truly deserves the attention of investors and the broader audience — that's undeniable. However, a competition requires selecting three winners, and that was no easy task," noted Vladimir Smerkis.
After deliberation, the winners were announced:
1st Place — Viktoria Fazliakhmetova, project WarpSeek — prize $2,5002nd Place — Elizaveta Otroh, project StartON Launchpad — prize $1,5003rd Place — Yulia Trishkina, project TractionEye — prize $1,000
The winners also received gifts from Bitget and 0xConnect.Following the awards ceremony, speakers took to the stage to discuss key market trends, share experiences in startup promotion, and much more.
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