Huawei Cloud Startup Ignite Competition 2023

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In this challenge, only one member should apply and will act as representative for the company in question. In the later stages, a second representative may be required.

To be eligible for this competition, your Company must be a:

• Growth startup (at least Seed stage)
• Startup with services/products that are already commercially available
• Startup with traction - Revenue, clients (preferred)
• Business entity and/or with clients in Asia Pacific
• Not currently part of Huawei Spark
• Not currently part of Huawei Partner Network
• Up to Top 15 from Spark Ignite 2022, Spark Ignite Thailand 2022, Spark Ignite 2021, Spark Ignite 2020, Spark Malaysia, Spark Thailand and past winners of AppsUP 2020 are not eligible to compete
• Have a solution in one of the categories listed in the Brief

• Executive summary – 1 slide
  
• Problem Statement – 1 slide
• Service and Business Model (e.g. What's your service and business model), and how money works (e.g. pricing structure)? – 1 slide
• Sales & Growth Transactions - 2 slides
  • Service revenue of (up to) last 3 years and revenue forecast for 2023
  • Size of client/user base, reference client/project
• Market Potential - 1 slide
• Competitive Landscape - 1 slide
• Solution outline – 3 slides
  • High-level solution architecture
  • Solution USP
  • Solution development roadmap & key challenge(s)
• Strategy/Business Growth Roadmap – 1 slide
• Funding Received - 1 slide
• Team – 1 slide
  

For the second shortlisting phase, participants will be asked to submit a 2-minute video introducing their solution - elevator-pitch style!

• Relevancy
  
• Market Potential
• Service Model
• Business Traction
• Technology USP Scalability & Limitations
• Financial Viability

The Top 20 semi-finalists will receive mentorship from Huawei experts as part of the selection for the Final Event.

Once you are selected, you can interact with your mentors in “My Space” and your "Mentors" tab will be enabled for you to message your mentors.

The announcement for the Top 10 finalists will be made by 7-8 September 2023.

Stay tuned for further information!

The Final Event will take place in Singapore on 26 September 2023! Stay tuned for further information.