A world record breaking number of 1674 StartUps from all around the world
applied for Webit 2014 Founders Games!
We have selected 350 of them as semi finalists and you shall see up to 200 of them
among the exhibitors of the Global Webit Congress 2014.
Turkey / Xaas
Andorra / Digital Commerce
Netherlands / eLearning
Turkey / Hardware
UK / Xaas
Italy / Digital Commerce
Morocco / eLearning
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Jordan / Digital Entertainment
UAE / Xaas
Romania / Advertising
Israel / Biotech
Turkey / Digital Commerce
Ukraine / eLearning
Turkey
Greece /Infrastructure
Cyprus / Advertising
UK / Digital Entertainment
Israel / Digital Entertainment
Netherlands / Digital commerce
Turkey / Digital commerce
Turkey / Digital entertainment
Nigeria / Digital commerce
South Africa / Fintech
Turkey / Digital entertainment
Belgium / Xaas
2 Round Application Deadline
2 Round semifinalist startups announced
Founders Games Winners announced
time left to the announcement of winners
The Founders Games is the single most
influential event for startups,
providing over 1 Million EUR grant in
marketing budgets for up to 200 startups.
Up
to 200 startups shall receive a free expo table at the Congress + 600
free Gold tickets + advertising budgets within major publishers +
further awards at total value of more than 1 Million EUR.
At Webit wehave launched a special research among over 500 startups from EMEA and the results were clear - the single biggest issue for failure of a startups is not the lack of funding, not the lack of talents - but the opportunity to market at scale and the limited marketing budgets which the investors are willing to approve especially at the seeding stage of the startup.
This is the reason the Global Webit Congress to create the 1 Million EUR Marketing Grant for startups to give them a special market advantage and to boost the business and the opportunities to success.
Every company younger than 5 years and
with less than 5 Million in funding
is eligible to apply for free. As
the programme suggests this is GRANT and we do not take any equity!
As far as your company is active in the following disciplines:
| Advertising | Biotech | Digital Commerce | Digital Entertainment | eLearning |
| Fintech | Games | Hardware | Health | Infrastructure |
| Money | Non-Profit | Social & dating | Travel | Xaas |
| Energy Efficiency |
and in case you are based in one of the following regions:
| Central & Eastern Europe |
Western Europe |
Nordics |
Russia + CIS |
Africa |
| Middle East | Turkey | India | rest of Asia | Israel |
Webit is to provide up to 200 startups with a free expo table, 600 free expo tickets, advertising budgets in major global media (partners of the Congress and the Founders Games) and further help and support by our partners and jury.
The 200 startups who qualify shall have access to all attendees of the Global Webit Congress - the major and most influential tech and digital global event for EMEA and Asia hosting over 10'000 attendees from 110 countries and 60% of them are C-level executives and founders.
Webit is the only place where startups meet investors, reporters, the CEOs, CMOs and CTOs of the world's largest and most innovative companies along with the biggest global and regional advertisers. Only at Webit your startupwill have access not only to over 400 investors but also the major potential partners and clients making Webit is the most StartUp friendly digital and tech industry event.
Over 300 accredited media search for great starups. At the Congress you may meet and connect with editors in chief, editors and correspondents from Wall Street Journal, Mashable, The Next Web, Wired, Bloomberg, Guardian, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, e27, Wamda, ITP, Forbes, CNN, The New York Times, Business Insider, The Economist, Wired and many more.
Founders Games has 3 Rounds:
1 Round is open to all startups which qualify according to the above
criteria. The JURY shall select 200 of all applicants and they shall join
the 2nd round
2 Round - Accelerated/Funded startups get a wild card to Round 2. Accelerators we work with received a special code which gives access to their startups to Round 2 of the Founders Game. The Jury shall select in total up to 200 startups from round 1 and 2 and shall award them with free stand and free Gold tickets to the Congress.
3 Round - The first top 20 (out of 200) shall be selected to pitch on the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit Stage of the Congress and the Jury shall select the winners.
The winners the shall receive further awards and marketing advertising budgets by our partners + global media endorsement and brand recognition.
The Judging is made on 5 major milestones:
- Team capacity - 10 points
- Project Scalability - 10 points
- Business approach - 10 points
- Marketing approach - 10 points
- Uniqueness of the idea - 10 points
Each of the isted above regions has a quota of 5 startups to be sent to the Global Webit Congress.
Thus we make sure we host the best of the best from each and every part of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia
as far as the startups have above 25 points (50% success).
Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners
and Skolkovo Board Member
Chairman
Global Webit Congress
Co-founder
Markafoni and Investor
Founder & Head of ProSieben
Sat1 Accelerator
Principal Banker
EBRD Venture Capital Investment Programme
Managing Partner
Middle East Venture Partners
Partner
Lakestar
Vice President
m8 Capital
Partner
SunStone Capital
Partner
EarlyBird Venture Capital
hosting 6 premier events, 10 000+ attendees
from 110+ countries, 260 speakers and 300 accredited media.
