Late in 2020, we began to organize "Green Startup Bootcamp" (GSB). The quality of ideas and teams responding positively to the bootcamp training has been exemplary.

Fourteen companies made our shortlist. Only five will make the final cut to advance for pitching to investors on 29th March at a media event in Hanoi.

Watch this space for an update announcing the winners!

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GSB is funded by the US Department of State program, Global Innovation in Science and Technology (GIST). The global implementer of GIST is VentureWell. Local organizers include HATCH!, Campus-K, and VCIC. GSB has been generously supported by Max Plus English; ActionCoach Global; Trường Đại Học Tài Nguyên Và Môi Trường Ho Chi Minh City; Trường Đại Học Tài Nguyên Và Môi Trường Hanoi; CLB Dynamic Đại học Ngoại Thương. Media partners include VTV, Tuoitre, and Tạp chí điện tử Tài Nguyên Và Môi Trường.

PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, wants your ideas to transform into a Smart Utility of the Future.

PUB Global Innovation Challenge seeks to accelerate discovery and adoption of digital solutions and smart technologies to improve operational excellence and meet future water needs.

PUB invites companies, researchers, and innovators from all around the world to propose solutions. Selected applicants get to validate their ideas and find a product-market fit in the water industry.

As one of the few utilities in the world to manage the entire water loop in a country, PUB offers unparalleled test-bedding opportunities. PUB is recognized by the international water community as a global hydrohub, with a living laboratory for testing water technologies. PUB is seeks to partner with innovators to co-create innovative water solutions, and provide support for their development, deployment and adoption.

Link to apply: http://bit.ly/pub-gic-apply

ICMG, a Singapore Corporate Innovation Accelerator, in association with Aichi Prefecture government in Japan has launched Aichi Smart Sustainable City Co-Creation Challenge (ASSCCC).

The challenge winner (startups / SMEs / technologies) will collaborate with corporations in Aichi prefecture:

1. Asahi Tekko - Calling for solutions related to manufacturing
2. Aisin Group - Calling for solutions related to mobility 
3. Minamichita Town - Calling for solutions related utilisation of underused assets e.g. houses, land, farms 
4. Central Air Group - Calling for solutions related to airports, aviation

This is a good opportunity for the startups in Asia to expand into Japan and create new solutions together with these companies with the support of the Aichi Prefecture government. 

About ICMG:
ICMG is a Corporate Innovation Accelerator for Purposeful and Impactful Innovation focusing on Asia, providing corporate innovation programs by managing an open innovation ecosystem in Singapore and South East Asia.

You can apply now for the opportunity to showcase your innovation at the 2020 Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) at UN Headquarters in New York on 12-13 May, 2020.

Act quickly, because time is short: the deadline to submit your innovation is next Tuesday, 3 March.

Why apply?
Selected innovators will be invited to participate in the 2020 STI Forum at UN Headquarters in New York. At the Forum, you will have the chance to present your innovation and connect with a valuable network — other innovators, those who can support or scale up your innovations, and those seeking to utilize such innovations.

Additionally, all innovators who respond to the Call will be automatically featured on Global Innovation Exchange (GIE), which brings benefits including:

1. The ability to showcase your innovation’s accomplishments and milestones. Innovation profiles will be featured on GIE indefinitely.
2. Exposure to funders and other supporters through initiatives such as GIE’s Innovation Finder Service.
3. The opportunity to apply for similar opportunities in the future using the same innovation profile, saving you time and effort you can spend on your innovation.
4. Future upgrades to the GIE platform — like the launch of automatic funding alerts based on your innovation profile details.

Who can apply?
Submit your innovation if it is generating concrete results for sustainable development — particularly through one or more of the six “entry points” identified in the Global Sustainable Development Report:

1. Human well-being and capabilities
2. Sustainable and just economies
3. Sustainable food systems and healthy nutrition
4. Energy decarbonization with universal access
5. Urban and peri-urban development
6. Global environmental commons

This is an opportunity to get your innovation in front of other innovators, funders, and ecosystem supporters — and get all the benefits of a profile on GIE.

Innovations can be submitted before 9 March 2020 via Global Innovation Exchange at https://stiforum4sdgs.globalinnovationexchange.org.

We are glad to announce South Summit opening their 2020's Startup Competition call.  

South Summit is the leading Innovation Global Platform which connects top innovators to the world's most powerful investors, and corporations, who are searching for the next big thing.

The call is addressed to all startups (any development stage, any country and any industry) providing the opportunity of introducing their projects in front of a large audience, composed by business leaders, the biggest players within the field, experts and investors. This will also represent a unique chance to gain visibility and meet potential supporters.