Sponsors Promote your Awards Sponsors by creating profiles for them in your Admin account. The sponsors page will display your sponsors with their logos sorted by their sponsorship level. As well, use this form to gather more sponsors if needed. Become a Sponsor Company First Name Last Name Email Sponsorship Level * Women's Financial Independence Award The Case For This CategoryWomen entrepreneurs in Canada are closing the gap, but the financing barrier remains real. Women-owned businesses receive less than 4% of venture capital in Canada, and nearly half of women entrepreneurs report that access to capital was their biggest early obstacle. Women-owned SMEs also face higher average line-of-credit interest rates than men-owned SMEs | 13.7% versus 10.4% | meaning they pay more to borrow less. At the same time, women-led businesses generate more than $90 billion in annual revenues and employ close to one million Canadians. Research estimates that if women started businesses at the same rate as men, Canada would have 710,000 more women-owned businesses than it does today, a gap that exists because of the exact barriers this award addresses. This award exists at the intersection of that tension and that triumph.Sponsor Value Proposition |Put your brand at the center of the most emotionally compelling financial story in Canadian women's entrepreneurship this yearWho this is for:Banks, fintech platforms, insurance providers, credit unions, wealth management brands, and financial services companies targeting women.Why you should own it:This is the highest-visibility category for any financial brand that wants to be seen as championing real women, not just marketing to them. The winner's story becomes a brand asset: a real, verified, media-ready narrative of transformation that no ad campaign can manufacture. Trailblazer Entrepreneur Award The Case For This CategoryCanada's most visible and high-impact women entrepreneurs are rewriting what leadership looks like. Women-owned SMEs now generate more than $90 billion in annual revenues and employ close to one million people across Canada. Yet despite this scale, they remain dramatically underrepresented at the top, women hold fewer than 25% of senior leadership positions in Canadian organizations. The Trailblazer Award exists to close that visibility gap. It puts Canada's most barrier-breaking, business-scaling entrepreneurs on a national stage and refuses to let their success go unnoticed.Sponsor Value Proposition |Put your brand behind the most celebrated entrepreneur in Canada this yearWho this is for:National banks, media companies, retailers, telecom brands, and enterprise partners looking for flagship associations.Why you should own it:This is the prestige category, the one that generates the press release, the feature story, and the stage photo that lives forever. The winner's name becomes part of the sponsor's story. Message Leave this field blank. This is an anti-spam trap for robots. Check it! Submit
