Huawei Spark Ignite 2021 - Thailand Startup Competition

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!

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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.

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
• Must be able to pitch in English
• Not currently part of Huawei Partner Network
• Top 15 from Spark 2020 or Spark malaysia are not eligible to compete.
• Have a solution in one of the categories listed in the Brief.

Your Company must submit a 13-slide PDF in English 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.

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

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 announcement will be made in early September.

Stay tuned for further information!

The finals will take place in Thailand in September. 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