Deadline: 20-Jul-2020
Sport Singapore (SportSG), in partnership with Global Sport Innovation Centre (GSIC) are launching a Startup Competition to locate the best sport-tech projects and/or startups across the Asia-Pacific territory.
The GSIC and Sport Singapore want to bring together startups and innovators with an ambition of disrupting the sports industry. This initiative is aiming to nurture innovation, foster the entrepreneurship, and enable sports industry development through cross-sector collaborations which drive innovation and business.
The finalist selected startups, up to a maximum of 10, will have the opportunity to pitch their project/startup at an online event in front of a jury made of representatives of the sports industry, where 3 startups will be selected as winners.
Areas
For this reason, SportSG and GSIC announce a joint call for projects and/or startups that offer solutions that impact the sports industry in any of the following areas:
The solutions that will be presented in the startups competition will be those based on four fundamental aspects:
- Team & player performance
- Media
- Smart venue
- Business insights & analytics
- Phygital experiences
- Sponsorship
- Fan/Consumer engagement
- Esports
- Health & wellness
- Mitigation of pandemics & public health
Objectives
- Showcase, support, nurture them and train entrepreneurs to transform their projects into successful companies, while improving their projection, growth and scalability.
- Identify the most promising technological solutions that operate in, but not limited to.
Eligibility Criteria
The call is aimed for entrepreneurs who can contribute with their technological innovation to the development through the different categories mentioned above. In this sense, the present call is aimed for projects, seed stage and early stage companies.
- Be a project and/or startup – at least – in Pre-seed/seed and/or early stage.
- Have a dedicated full-time team of at least 2 individuals.
- Have at least a minimum viable product (MVP) and potential to implement internationally.
- The individual promoter / representative of the startup must be of legal age and must have the legal capacity to be bound. You may not be an employee, manager, partner, or maintain a business relationship with SportSG at the time of application.
- The promoters of each project/startup may only participate in this call by submitting a single project.
- Promoters may not have been convicted of a felony conviction for any offense.
Participants who do not fulfill any of these requirements, will not be included in this call, losing the right to receive any service and no claim to SportSG and/or GSIC.
Selection Criteria
- Innovation of the solution or product & value proposition
- Business model & sustainability
- Team capacity
For more information, visit https://asiastartupcompetition.sport-gsic.com/