cmypitch.com, the online community for entrepreneurs and business owners, has launched a Best Female Entrepreneur Award. The prize of £1,000 will be awarded to an outstanding female entrepreneur who deserves recognition and runs a company less than 3 years old.

Other categories in which companies can enter are, for small and medium sized businesses, the Most Innovative UK Company Award and for start-up companies, theStart-up Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Best Social Entrepreneur Award.

Cmypitch.com's Founder, Emmett Kilduff says: "Social businesses and female entrepreneurship is high on the Government agenda. We wanted to reflect the growing importance of these two areas. With this in mind we've created two awards to recognise excellence in these fields."

The deadline of entry is Friday 26 Sep 2008.