Voting Has Closed

Voting is now open for the Nexus Awards. These prestigious awards champion and celebrate the top startups, investors and innovation ecosystem players across the CEE, Caucasus, Central Asia and MENAPT regions.

After hundreds of nominations, five finalists have been selected in each category, and they are all listed in the voting form. It is time to give the finalists the recognition they deserve.

Last year, at the NEXUS Awards 2025 powered by Scale AI (Meta), we had over 800 nominations for companies across 15 categories from over 20 countries (from Morocco to Mongolia to US and beyond) and over 7,000 votes were cast. After an extensive selection process with expert judges, there were 5 finalists for each category. We then put it out to the public to vote for their top three choices for each category. The winners and runners-up were recognised with their awards on stage during the final day of Baku ID as part of the closing ceremony.