Huawei Spark Malaysia - Tech Competition

Fire up your company and take it to new heights with Huawei! Compete for the chance to win up to USD $125k in Cloud Credit and exclusive business development opportunities.

This challenge is only open to companies incorporated in Malaysia

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 commercialized products/services with booked revenue of minimum USD 200K
- Be present domiciled in Malaysia
- Have a solution in one of the categories listed in the Brief.

Application Phase

Your Company must submit a 12-slide PDF explaining:

  • Executive summary – 1 slide
  • Problem Statement and Market Potential & Competition Landscape – 2 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 (Service revenue of up to last 3 years and revenue forecast for 2021, Size of client/user base, reference client/project – 2 slides
  • Solution outline (High-level solution architecture, solution USP, Solution development roadmap & key challenges) – 3 slides
  • Funding Received so far and Business Growth Roadmap – 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 February 28 2021, 23:59 MYT (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 20 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 1.5 weeks from March 15 - March 26.

Final Event

The announcement for the TOP 10 Companies will be made on the April 2.

  • STARTUPS RANKED 6TH TO 10TH:

    • Admission to the Huawei Spark Malaysia, in the “Incubate” Tier:
      • Technical support
      • Training support
      • Go to Market support
    • USD 5K Cloud credits
 
  • STARTUPS RANKED 4TH TO 5TH:

    • Admission to the Huawei Spark Malaysia, in the “Incubate” Tier:
      • Technical support
      • Training support
      • Go to Market support
    • USD 20K Cloud credits
 
  • STARTUPS RANKED 2ND TO 3RD

    • Admission to the Huawei Spark Malaysia, in the “Accelerate” Tier:
      • Mentoring and networking sessions with Huawei Advisory Board
      • Go to market support
      • Training & Resources
      • Technical support
      • Hall of Fame (Featured on an article/write-up by Huawei Spark/MDEC GAIN)
    • Up to USD 80K Cloud Credits
 
  • TOP WINNER

    • Admission to Huawei Spark Fire
    • Admission to the Huawei Spark Malaysia, in the “Accelerate” Tier:
      • Mentoring and networking sessions with Huawei Advisory Board
      • Go to market support
      • Training & Resources
      • Technical Support
      • Hall of Fame (Featured on an article/write-up by Huawei Spark/MDEC GAIN)
    • USD 125K Cloud Credits

The Finals will take place in Malaysia on April 8th, 2021! Stay tuned for further information.

You will need to prepare a 2-min pitch presentation in English