Deadline: 28-Jan-22
Smart Cities Connect is inviting proposals for its Smart Cities Startup Challenge. Submit your startup or innovative solution today, to pitch your solution and engage with leading investment, city, industry, and military prospectors.
Submission is open to all, and your submission will include consideration for a free membership into the RISE Resilient Innovation and Secure Energy Consortium.
The RISE Consortium accelerates key technologies and communities supporting the nation’s infrastructure, energy, mobility, resilience, and security initiatives.
Areas
- Community Engagement
- Policy, Funding, Commerce, Inclusion, Governance
- Digital Transformation
- Data, AI, Sensors, IoT, Cyber Security, Privacy, Blockchain
- Smart Mobility
- Transportation, Autonomous, Public Transit, Ride Share
- Urban Infrastructure
- Networks, 5G, Utilities, Energy, Grid, Lighting, Water/Waste
- Urban Operations
- Public Safety, Planning, Emergency Response, Sustainability
Challenge Criteria
The pitch must be for a new and independent venture or novel technology from a university, non-profit research institution and labs, or a startup at the seed, start-up, or early-growth stage. Plans that include proposals for expansions of existing companies, spin-outs or research from existing corporations, and other consulting projects or analyses are not eligible. Licensing technologies from universities or research labs is encouraged, assuming they have not been commercialized previously. Submitting startups should not have more than $1,000,000 in revenues in the prior year.
For more information, visit https://spring.smartcitiesconnect.org/innovation_challenge.html