Huawei Spark Ignite 2021 - Global Startup Competition

Fire up your startup and take it to new heights with Huawei!

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Participation

First click on “Sign Up” and follow the instructions. Then click the blue “Participate” button on the platform to finalize your participant account. You can then submit your proposal!

You will receive a confirmation email upon registration. If not, please send an email to jay.lee@agorize.com

When there is an update, you will receive an email from the admin on the Agorize platform and a notification at your provided email address. Please make sure you have clicked ‘Participate’ and checked your mailbox!

You will receive an email confirmation upon successful registration. If you do not receive any confirmation within 24 hours, please reach out to jay.lee@agorize.com.

To update your details, log in, and go to your participant profile to edit or change your details.

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

Eligibility

To be eligible for this competition your Company must:

  • Have a commercialised products/services
  • Startups with Traction - Revenue, clients (preferred)
  • Business entity and/or clients in Asia Pacific
  • Must have at least 2 members for presentation
  • Not currently part of Huawei Partner Network
  • Top 15 from Spark 2020, Spark malaysia, and past winners of AppsUP 2020 are not eligible to compete
  • Have a solution in one of the categories listed in the Brief.

Application Phase

Your Company must submit a 13-slide PDF explaining:

  • Executive summary – 1 slide
  • Problem Statement – 1 slides
  • 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 2021
    • 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 voting phase, challengers will be asked to submit an edited version of their slide deck from Round 1

And also a 90 second Demo Video demonstrating the functionalities of their product/solution.

The deadline for submitting your completed application is August 10 2021, 23:59 SGT (GMT+8).
  • Relevancy
  • Market Potential
  • Service Model
  • Business Traction
  • Technology USP Scalability & Limitations
  • Financial Viability
  • Team Strength
 
 

Mentorship

Mentoring is part of the rewards for the TOP 15 selected companies.

Once you are selected, you can interact with your mentors in participation space and your "Mentors" tab will be enabled to message your mentors.

The mentorship phase will last for a total of 3 weeks from September 25 - October 15.

Final Event

The announcement for the TOP 5 Companies will be made on the October 20.

The Finals will take place in Singapore on November 8, 2021! Stay tuned for further information.

You will need to prepare for a 8-min pitch presentation and a 7-min Q&A session in English

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