Huawei Spark 2020 - Global Startup Competition

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

APPLICATION PHASE

August 10 - October 4, 2020 

Register on the platform and submit your proposal deck of 5 slides in English (PPT or PDF format), addressing the following:

  • Background and motivation of your startup
  • Your product / solution brief
  • Business plan and results
  • Resources needed
  • Core team
 
Participating Startups are also required to complete the submission form describing the background of the company.
 
The deadline for the submission will be on October 4 at 11:59pm SGT (GMT+8).

1ST ONLINE VOTING

October 5 - October 18, 2020

Huawei judges to vote and select the semi-finalist Startups based on the following criteria:

  • Relevancy
  • Impact
  • Technology innovation and USP
  • Differentiation

 

The top 15 startups will be selected for the next round. The results announcement will be made on October 19, 2020.

MENTORING PHASE

October 19 - November 1, 2020

The selected Startups will be mentored by Huawei experts to improve their proposals.

For the second voting phase, Startups will be asked to submit a 10 slides proposal deck in English (PPT or PDF format) including the following:

  • Solution clarification sheet
  • Business plan
  • Demo Video

2ND ONLINE VOTING

November 2 - November 9, 2020

Huawei judges to vote and select the finalist Startups based on the following criteria:

  • Market potential and solution scalability
  • Core solution / product
  • Team strength
  • Business Model
  • Market and Sales strategy and results

 

The top 5 Startups will be selected for the Final event. The results announcement will be made on November 10, 2020.

FINAL EVENT

December 7 - 11, 2020

The Top 5 finalists will pitch virtually to the Huawei jury panel. 

More details about the details and format of the pitching to come, so stay tuned!

The Top 2 winners will be fast-tracked to compete as one of the Top 100 global startups of SLINGSHOT 2020 as part of the SLINGSHOT x SWITCH event.