Young Founder of the Year is awarded to young founders who have the potential to build a successful company, be a good leader and develop into a role model for other young entrepreneurs. The purpose of the award is to encourage further success, acting as a catalyst to growth for the young founders. 

Founders Alliance's basic criteria for Young Founder of the Year 2022 is that the nominee:

• is under 30 years of age at the time of nomination
• has started and runs a limited company
• the founder and any co-founders together have 40% of the shares
• has a turnover of at least 50,000 EUR
• has the potential to become a successful founder

The finalists introduce themselves and their companies to a jury of qualified founders who select the winners, two women and two men, who receive the global award Young Founder of the Year during the Founders Awards Gala at Stockholm City Hall in Sweden September 22, 2022. 

Winners Young Founder of the Year 2021

Ida Norström - founder of Energy Effective Solutions and Anton Fast and Simon Geldner - founders of Ophena received the Growth Rings in Gold, and Petronella Gustafsson - founder of Progress Me and Sebastian Salomonsson - founder of SebSalo Energi received the Growth Rings in Silver for the Young Founder of the Year 2021 award.