These are the winners of the SEF.WomanAward 2025
Paulina Grnarova, co-founder and CEO of the AI start-up Deepjudge, has won this year's "SEF.Woman Award". The Swiss Economic Forum honored her as "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" for her AI solution for law firms.

For the fifth year in a row, NZZ Connect presented the Swiss Economic Forum Woman Award at The Circle Zurich. One of the three women honored was Paulina Grnarova, according to NZZ Connect. Grnarova, co-founder and CEO of the AI start-up Deepjudge, received the award in the "Young Female Entrepreneur of the Year" category.
Born in North Macedonia, she founded the ETH spin-off Deepjudge in 2021 to transform the legal search process with artificial intelligence. According to the press release, Grnarova holds a doctorate in computer science and has already been included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
The Swiss Economic Forum presented another award to Bea Knecht. As the founder of the TV streaming service Zattoo, she has developed new business models in the technology sector and is an expert in digital transformation, according to the press release. For this, the organizers named her Honorary Award Winner of the Year 2025. Alpiq CEO Antje Kanngiesser also received the award in the "Entrepreneur/CEO of the Year" category. (Dylan Windhaber/rja)
This article first appeared in Netzwoche.
The SEF.WomanAward honors women with an outstanding entrepreneurial track record and at the same time creates a powerful and future-oriented platform for female entrepreneurs.