The mission of the "Support and development of the entrepreneurship" Foundation is to give exceptional startups a special market advantage and to boost the business and the opportunities to success.
We 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, nor 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.
For this reason we started the Founders Games initiative.
Together with our partner Webit we provide up to 200 startups from the EMEA region 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.
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 shall receive further awards and marketing advertising budgets by our partners plus global media endorsement and brand recognition.