Dream big & go global: international start-up competition at EMERGE conference

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On 4 and 5 June, the second EMERGE conference will take place in Minsk - an event dedicated to the creation of global innovative products and technology investments, the only event of this scale in the New East region (Eastern European countries, the Balkans, Central Asia). It represents the interests of investors, startups, and large companies.
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We invite you to take part in EMERGE CHALLENGE: present your project to investors from all over the world and win € 10,000. Details and promotional code for the conference - under the cut.


March 31, 2019, the submission of applications for EMERGE CHALLENGE is completed - the start-up competition for the New East region in the framework of the EMERGE conference. To be able to pre-qualify, speak to investors and the media, win € 10,000 and receive special prizes from accelerators, you need to submit an application through the site emergeconf.io and pass a 20-minute interview in English. In the pre-selection can take part startups that meet the following criteria :

• Investment in the project should not exceed € 1 million: € 0 investment is suitable, but € 1 million is no longer;
• product must be global. A startup may be located or be registered in any country of the New East region, but the product must be scalable and applicable in a global world, and not only within one country or city;
• the company must have a working prototype or a finished product;
• At this stage, the startup should show the figures for attracted customers, downloads, subscriptions, etc., something that will show the real value and work of the project.

If a startup fits all criteria and is pre-selected, the project team will be able to project their project on stage to investors from Flint Capital, Genesis Investments, FunCorp, Tera Ventures, StarFinder Capital Fund, etc., managers of acceleration programs from 500 Startups, Rockstart, Founders Factory, Startup Wise Guys and start-up programs within corporations such as Microsoft for startups, BAYER Grants 4 Apps, Orange Fab and key media such as Venture Beat, The Next Web, VC.ru, etc.

Now more than 50 startups from 15 countries have entered the competition.

The results of the preliminary selection will be known by April 20. However, even if a startup has not been pre-selected, it will nevertheless be invited to Startup Alley with its booth - which more than 80 startups and 2000 visitors attended last year - will be able to arrange personal meetings with investors, funds, potential partners and media through the matchmaking app.

In its spirit, EMERGE is a conference-festival, with a rich program of networking events: from pre-party and morning jogging to after-party and informal Founders Stories Night, where the founders will share their stories of failures and mistakes that helped them to be where they are there is now.

On the eve of EMERGE, on June 3, along with Flint Capital, Founders Day will be organized for startups with mentor sessions, roundtables and workshops on various topics: access to the American market, PR for startups, agile for product development and a lot of productive networking.

About EMERGE

The EMERGE conference dedicated to the creation of global innovative products and technology investments is the only event of this magnitude in the New East region (Eastern European countries, the Balkans, Central Asia). It represents the interests of investors, startups, and large companies.

Thanks to the support of the tech communities, this year the event is planned to be attended by 2,000 people, more than 100 investors and venture funds, and 150 startups. Speakers from NIKE Innovation Kitchen, Workfusion, Bayer, grocery and UX professionals from Microsoft, Facebook will share their experience and practical knowledge on three stages - FUTURE, BUILD and GROWTH; they will be cases from the technical teams of EPAM, Google; Flint Capital, 500 startups and “unicorns” from the New East region will tell you about entering global markets.

Especially for habr readers under the emergehabr20 promo code, you can purchase any ticket to EMERGE with a 20% discount. Buy a ticket and enter the promotional code on the site .