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14/10/2026

🏆 Who will be this year’s SC WIN Now & Next winners?

10 incredible founders. 10 game-changing businesses. All of them deserving… but only FIVE awards up for grabs 👀🔥

Here’s what’s on the line:
🏆 Best SC WIN Business
🌱 Best Business for Good
🌎 Best International Business
⚡️ Best Next Gen Business
🩵 People’s Choice Award, proudly sponsored by LIFTWOMEN®

Our Hong Kong/GBA finalists have spent months building, refining and preparing for this moment. Tomorrow, they step on stage and give it everything.

So we want to know: who do YOU think will take it home? 🤔 Drop your predictions in the comments 👇🏻

Don’t just guess, be in the room when the winners are revealed 💕

📍 Mandarin Oriental, Shenzhen
📆 Thursday, 15 October | 3:00–6:00 PM HKT

🎟️ Comment HK to grab your ticket!

13/10/2026

⏳ 2 DAYS TO GO!

In Shenzhen this Thursday? You’ll to be in this room 👀

Join us at the SC WIN Now & Next Pitch Finale, where 10 bold founders from our Hong Kong/GBA cohort take the stage to pitch the businesses they’ve been building 🔥

♻️ Sustainability
🔹 EzyGreenPak Limited
🔹 Green Vigor Limited
🔹 Breer

🏥 Medicine & Health
🔹 Epigenetics AI
🔹 Canpanion Group
🔹 Senses Studio

💡 Innovative Technology
🔹 Vlight Technology
🔹 WYNI Technology Limited

✨ Education & Lifestyle
🔹 MakeOmnia Limited
🔹 Qi Concepts

Expect big ideas, brave pitches and an afternoon surrounded by founders, investors and changemakers backing women who are building what’s next.

Don’t just watch it on your feed. Be there when it happens 💕

📍 Mandarin Oriental, Shenzhen
🗓️ Thursday, 15 October | 3:00–6:00 PM HKT

🎟️ Comment HK to grab your tickets now.

GBA HongKong

22/09/2026

🌟 Meet the Top 10 Finalists of SC WIN Now & Next 2026! 🔥

Standard Chartered is proud to bring the SC WIN Now & Next Programme to India for the first time, supporting ambitious women entrepreneurs with the resources, networks and opportunities they need to grow.

Delivered in partnership with LIFTWOMEN and following a rigorous evaluation process, we’re excited to unveil the 10 finalists of SC WIN Now & Next 2026! 🇮🇳

From AI and digital transformation to sustainable fashion, EV infrastructure, beauty, agritech, education and healthcare, these founders are building businesses across a diverse range of industries:

🤖 AI & Technology
🔹 Bhavana Mittal — Bert Labs
🔹 Dipali Badgujar — IntegrationWings
🔹 Mallika Bajaj — Ballistic Learning Systems

🌱 Sustainability, Agriculture & EV
🔹 Gayatri Varun — GREEN HERMITAGE™
🔹 Manya Kanoria — ChargET | EV Charging Solutions
🔹 Nupur Agrawal — ScaNxt Scientific Technologies

💄 Beauty & Consumer
🔹 Netijyata Mahendru — Broadcast Beauty | Building Beauty Brands
🔹 Niveda R — Bliss Natural

🎓 Education & Healthcare
🔹 Dr. Prachee Gaur — Remarkable Education
🔹 Romita Ghosh — MAAP AI

The 10 finalist teams will now move into the 12-week SC WIN Global Accelerator Programme, where they’ll benefit from mentorship, peer networking and structured learning designed to support business growth and long-term success.

Through SC WIN, founders gain access to expertise, strategic connections and opportunities to help them take their businesses further while becoming part of a growing global community of women-owned businesses.

Since 2022, SC WIN has grown into a community of more than 4,500 women-owned businesses across seven markets, contributing to Standard Chartered’s goal of delivering USD 1 billion in financing by 2028.

✨ Which finalist are you most excited to see take the next step? Tell us below! 👇

Stay tuned as we follow these incredible founders through their SC WIN journey. 🚀🌏

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14/09/2026

They backed themselves. Their community backed them back. 💛

Seekr. Plante. Wellgather. Three women-led businesses that successfully funded on LIFTWOMEN® and haven’t looked back since.

Lamia and Seekr got funded, got featured on CNN, secured Techstars investment, and landed a spot in the Techstars Tokyo Accelerator, one of 12 companies from 100+ countries. 🌏

Nguyen and Plante got funded, then got accepted into Startmate, ANZ’s biggest startup accelerator, out of 1,000+ applications. 🚀

Marla and Wellgather got funded, backed by a community that believed in what she was building from day one. 💛

Women who back themselves don’t stop at one win. They never do.

The next fully funded campaign could be yours.

Ready to launch?
🚀 Comment BACK to start your campaign on LIFTWOMEN®. 🚀

Want to learn first?
💛 Comment 7 to learn how to crowdfund in 7 days on Liftable.

07/09/2026

🌟 Meet the Top 10 Finalists of SC WIN Now & Next 2026! 🔥

Standard Chartered is proud to continue supporting and championing women entrepreneurs, providing ambitious founders with the resources, networks and opportunities they need to grow.

Following a highly competitive selection process, we’re excited to unveil the Top 10 finalists of the second SC WIN Now & Next 2026! Delivered in partnership with LIFTWOMEN®, the finalists are listed below in no particular order:

♻️ Sustainability
🔹 EzyGreenPak Limited
🔹 Green Vigor Limited
🔹 Breer

🏥 Medicine & Health
🔹 Epigenetics AI
🔹 Canpanion Group
🔹 Senses Studio

💡 Innovative Technology
🔹 Vlight Technology
🔹 WYNI Technology Limited

✨ Education & Lifestyle
🔹 MakeOmnia Limited
🔹 Qi Concepts

The 10 finalist teams will take part in the 12-week SC WIN Global Accelerator Programme, gaining access to SC WIN’s extensive business network, dedicated support and tailored resources to strengthen their businesses and accelerate growth.

They’ll then take the stage at the Pitch Finale, where they’ll compete for the championship title and funding support.

✨ Which finalist are you most excited to see take the stage? Tell us below! 👇

Stay tuned as we follow these incredible founders through their SC WIN journey. 🚀

02/09/2026

🌟 Announcing the SC WIN People's Choice Award!

Which founder has inspired SC WIN community the most?

Following a highly competitive selection process, we are nearing the finalisation of the Standard Chartered Women's International Network (SC WIN) Now & Next Challenge 2026 cohort.

As we celebrate the incredible calibre of founders in this year's programme, we are excited to introduce the SC WIN People's Choice Award, proudly sponsored by LIFTWOMEN®.

This special award joins our existing line-up of awards:
🏆 Best SC WIN Business
🏆 Best International Business
🏆 Best Business for Good
🏆 Best Next Gen Business

To be presented at the Pitch Finale, the People's Choice Award recognises the founder whose vision, passion, and impact resonate most strongly with the SC WIN community.

It is an opportunity for the SC WIN community to celebrate the entrepreneur who has inspired them through her story, ambition, and achievement.

🏅 The winner will receive:

🎤 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pitch live in Melbourne as a wildcard Top 10 Finalist in the LIFTWOMEN APAC Female Founder Grant Challenge 2026, for a chance to win a share of the cash grant prize pool.*

🛩️ Return flights to Melbourne, Australia

🏨 Two nights' accommodation

More than just an award, this is an opportunity to showcase your business on an international stage, expand your network, and take your entrepreneurial journey to the next level.

Stay tuned for details on how you can cast your vote and support your favourite founder!

*Terms and conditions apply. Full details will be announced in due course.

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02/09/2026

When we say world-class access, we mean it. 👀

The SC WIN Now & Next Challenge 2026 brings our Top 10 founders per cohort, across Hong Kong / Greater Bay Area and India, into direct sessions with some of Standard Chartered’s most senior global leaders.

We’re talking decades of expertise across sustainable finance, global marketing, and corporate operations. The kind of people most founders only read about, our cohort gets to learn from them directly.

💰 Eugenia Koh, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, Wealth, Retail and Banking
💻 Shelley Boland, Global Head, Real Estate & Corporate Services
✨ Haymans Fung, Global Head, Wealth & Retail Bank Marketing

This is the room our founders get to be in. Stay tuned, we’ll be introducing them very soon.

26/06/2026

Liftable is where women founders connect, learn, grow, and stay updated on opportunities that actually move their business forward ✨

Inside, you’ll get:
• Access to courses and resources
• Founder community across Asia Pacific
• Updates on grants, pitch nights, and events
• Stories and insights from women building real businesses

Because sometimes, one community can change the direction of your journey.

Comment “Liftable” and we’ll send you the link 💚

26/06/2026

🚀 A programme and mentorships that unlocks real value

The SC WIN Now & Next Programme is designed to help women founders accelerate growth through:

- A 12-week global accelerator programme
- Direct access to mentors, investors, and industry experts
- A powerful community of ambitious founders
- New connections, visibility, and opportunities
- The chance to pitch at the Finale in Mumbai

And that’s just the beginning.

**Applications close on 30 June. A few days to go. Apply now.**

Meet some of the world-class experts you’ll learn from throughout the programme in our India cohort →

💬 Comment WIN and we’ll send you everything you need to apply.

✨ Meet Monika Halan

Understand money like a founder and build wealth along the way.

From bestselling author of Let’s Talk Money to working with regulators to hard code consumer protection into products, Monika Halan has spent years helping Indians build confidence with money.

Drawing on decades of experience in personal finance, wealth creation, and investor education, she’ll share practical frameworks to help founders make smarter financial decisions, build resilient businesses, and create long-term wealth.

💬 Comment WIN for application details.

✨ Meet Dr Anju Gupta

Gain an invaluable perspective from someone backing India’s next generation of startups.

Anju is a Partner at one of India’s largest homegrown VC firms, IvyCap Ventures. She works through the Leading Institute Alumni Ecosystems of India to bring together investors, domain experts, corporate leaders, government representatives, founders, and academia to collaboratively foster research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs and driving IvyCap Ventures’ efforts to support and build out the next generation of entrepreneurs leveraging India’s Alumni Ecosystem across academia, industry, and government.

💬 Comment WIN for application details.

✨ Meet Diksha Dwivedi

Learn how to build a powerful brand that fuels your next stage of growth.

In the last decade, Diksha Dwivedi has built brands seen by millions and founded India’s fastest growing organic branding agency for startups and VCs, witho

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