- July 11, 2025
- Posted by: EBAN Team
- Category: News

We are thrilled to highlight the outstanding women entrepreneurs who took the stage—and the honours—at the EXPO Capital Quest by UN Women Europe and Central Asia, held during the EBAN Congress 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This special pitching event is part of EBAN’s ongoing mission to support women-led innovation and connect promising founders with the investment community, in partnership with UN Women Europe and Central Asia under the Women’s Entrepreneurship EXPO, a unique partnership platform launched in 2021 to promote women’s entrepreneurship ecosystem building in the Europe and Central Asia region.
15 women entrepreneurs from across Europe and Central Asia—representing Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo*, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan—took the main stage to deliver 3-minute pitches to a jury of five members: Edgardo da Fonseca, Patrick Kedziora, Nina Rautiainen, Roula Bachtalia, and Iro Tsagareishvili.
From edtech solutions to virtual reality applications for anxiety and burnout relief, these founders reached the pinnacle of a programme that began with a highly competitive pool of over 1,400 applicants. Ultimately, 15 were selected to join us at the congress, culminating in one winner and two honourable mentions.
Tini Mamuchashvili, founder of Neuropilot VR from Georgia, took the top prize with her innovative virtual reality app for anxiety management. Neuropilot aims to make advanced mental health care more accessible through immersive VR experiences, helping users manage anxiety and burnout in an effective, user-friendly way.
Now, Tini is seeking to raise €300,000 in a first round and €350,000 in a second round to scale operations, refine VR modules, and achieve certifications. It’s an inspiring vision for accessible mental health care—and we encourage investors to consider supporting it.
Honourable mentions were awarded to Firouza Eshonova with EZSpeech by Mila4AI, an AI-powered platform making speech therapy more accessible and effective, and Liubov Lysenko with Biobalance LLC, which offers comprehensive, eco-friendly biological crop protection using Trichogramma.
At EBAN, we are proud to partner with UN Women on this important initiative, and deeply committed to bringing more and more women-led startups to the forefront—connecting them with the best angel investors in Europe. As we celebrate their achievements, we invite the investor community to help take these ventures to the next level. The journey doesn’t end here—these founders are ready to grow, scale, and transform industries. Let’s keep the momentum going.