The renowned Champagne house Veuve Clicquot presents the Bold Woman Award 2025

Since 1972, Veuve Cliquot has recognized over 450 women in more than 20 countries with the Bold Woman Award. Born from the Maison’s 200 anniversary, the award continues to be a tribute to the esteemed Madame Clicquot, the Grand Dame of Champagne. She was an incredible woman who took over the Champagne House in 1805 at the young age of 27. Her qualities of passion, strength and intelligence led her to creating the first known vintage champagne, the riddling table process, and the first known blended rosé champagne. These contributions created drive and inspiration in the world, showing women that you can stand up for what you believe in and create the good you desire.

On June 5, 2025 in Reethaus, Berlin, an exceptional evening was created at the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award 2025. Two exceptional winners of the Bold Woman Award and Bold Future Award were named, and amazing finalists were also included.
Before we learn more about these winners, let us first take a look at what occurred on this fine evening:

First, around 100 guests were invited to the event. In fact, many notable guests from the business, media and culture industries were present: Jill Asemota, Maria Astor, Max Befort, Tanja Bülter, Bettina Cramer, Friederike Cromme, Nilam Farooq, Luise von Finckh, Saruul Krause-Jentsch, Kristina Lunz, Motsi Mabuse, Stefan Mentz, Soulin Omar, Stephanie Pfeil-Coenen, Yu Zhang, Vivien Wulf, Natalia Wörner, Dennenesch Zoudé.

And if things couldn’t get more exciting, the esteemed Host Jenny Augusta presented the award winners and led the evening very beautifully. The star chef Julia Komp also created a culinary delight for the evening by presenting an incredible modern and worldly cuisine experience.

Now, meet your winners for the Bold Woman Award 2025 and Bold Future Award 2025.

Bold Woman Award 2025 Winner

Miriam Wohlfarth – Banxware: 

Fin-tech pioneer and co-CEO of Banxware, a Berlin-based company delivering embedded finance solutions for SMEs. Banxware now has over 40 employees and manages a fund volume of $32.6M. Wohlfarth also formerly founded Ratepay and paymentandbanking.com.

In addition to being a seasoned entrepreneur, Wohlfarth serves on supervisory boards such as Daimler Mobility AG and Freenet AG. She is co-author of the Spiegel bestseller Zukunftsrepublik and was named a LinkedIn Top Voice, “Person of the Year 2022” by Handelsblatt, and named as one of the 100 most influential women in business by Manager Magazin.

Bold Future Award 2025 Winner

Stephanie Pfeil-Coenen – Phaeosynt: 

Founder and CEO of Phaeosnyt, a biotech startup producing plant-based antibodies derived from diatoms. Having launched in 2021, the startup promotes sustainable and cruelty-free alternatives to animal testing. It also raised €1.7M to develop a vegan pregnancy test that can replace up to 80 mice per one liter of algae culture.

Prior to founding Phaeosynt, Stephanie worked in the fields of market research and sales. For her incredible work, she was awarded the Digital Female Leader Award 2024 in the Sustainability category.

Meet the exceptional finalists who were also included:

Dr. Estefanía Lang – Dermanostic:

Dermatologist and co-founder of Dermanostic, Europe’s largest digital dermatology clinic. Launched in 2019, it offers around-the-clock diagnoses and treated over 300,000 patients. It also raised $2.27M seed funding in 2022.

Astrid Reintjes – MissPompadour:

Co-founder and managing director of MissPompadour, which is an e-commerce leader for sustainable paints in the DACH region. It secured seven-figure seed funding from FURE Capital and won the Shop Usability Award in 2022.

Gülsah Wilke – 2hearts Community: 

Co-founder and managing director of 2hearts, a Berlin-based diversity tech platform. Wilke stands for diversity by supporting individuals with migration backgrounds through mentorship, networks and investment access. Her work specializes in leadership, innovation and equity in the tech industry. She is also a partner at DN Capital.

Vivien Wysocki – Saint Sass: 

Co-founder of Saint Sass, the Berlin-based brand empowering women with iconic statement tights. Notable for featuring empowering messages on the statement tights such as “Not Your Babe” and “Future is Female”, it is also a brand that supports initiatives such as the gender pension gap awareness via its “Retire Rich” campaign. Wysocki, in addition to co-founding Saint Sass, is also a media scholar and a seasoned entrepreneur.

The Jury

From the worlds of business, media and society, these 9 notable personalities chose one winner per category from a selection of three nominees for this year’s awards:

Stephanie von Bismarck – Founder, Digital Expert, Author

Zarah Bruhn – Bold Woman Award 2022 Winner, Founder of Socialbee

Horst von Buttlar – Editor-in-Chief, Wirtschaftswoche

Philipp Hartmann – Business Angel, VC Investor

Karen Heumann – Co-Founder of thjnk AG, Board Member, Investor

Thurid Kahl – CEO, Moët Hennessy Germany

Sibel Kekilli – Actress

Diana zur Löwen – Creator, Business Angel, Moderator

Nikeata Thompson – Founder & CEO of NT Agency, Host