International Competition for Entrepreneurs from XTC
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Extreme Tech Challenge is now available for the 2022 edition. XTC's mission is to equip entrepreneurs who are using responsible innovation to solve global challenges through a strongly profitable, high growth commercial enterprise that presents an exceptional investment opportunity. XTC’s competition and ecosystem are designed to facilitate capital investment and development collaborations to accelerate your business success in commercial markets.
Benefits
This is a great opportunity for you to get in front of investors and corporations near your home base. Winners of each regional competition automatically advance to the Global Finals and Bootcamp in May-June 2022 and receive media promotion in the meantime.
Eligibility criteria
- You are legally incorporated as a business enterprise, and are not a publicly-traded company, but remain privately held.
- You must have demonstrated traction for your product idea, via either users, revenue/grants, seed investment, or other that you will mention in your application slide deck.
- All applicants must submit a slide deck and also a video of 3 minutes or less of a Company Founder presenting those slides as they would in live competition. Applications that are without Founder Pitch Video will be disqualified.
- You agree that only non-confidential information is being submitted and that there is no confidentiality agreement implied between XTC, its partners and applicants, regarding submitted pitch decks.
Eligible Fields:-
- AgTech & Food.
- Cleantech, Energy & Environment.
- Advanced Materials.
- Edtech.
- Enabling Tech.
- Fintech.
- Biotech & Medical Devices.
- Digital Health.
- Mobility.
- Sustainable Smart Cities.
Evaluation Criteria:-
Qualitative elements and discussion are a key part of the XTC Evaluation process, but fundamentally, XTC score on four business basics in a range of 1-10:
- Team.
- Innovation.
- Market fit.
- Tech-For-Good.
About XTC:-
XTC is a non-profit organization behind the world’s biggest startup competition that aims to help startups change the world for the better. In its quest, XTC is supported by leading corporations, VCs, foundations, policymakers, universities and tech conferences. The XTC competition is the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing the globe’s most serious challenges.
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