Nominate Your Startup Superheroes
We all love Startup Superheroes!!
Now it’s time to recognise and celebrate them. Nominate your favourite Startup Superhero now in one of 15 categories in the Southern Africa Startup Awards.
Southern Africa Startup Awards is a circuit the world renowned Global Startup Awards, which is the largest independent startup-ecosystem competition started in 2012, covering 45 countries in 5 regions. Our objective is to connect, support, and celebrate key players in national and regional startup ecosystems worldwide and to fuse them together on a global entrepreneurial network, creating a matrix of opportunities for international partnerships and commercial exchange.
STARTUP SUPERHEROES FROM EACH COUNTRY
We invite nominations from all 15 of our participating countries including South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, Namibia, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mauritius, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Seychelles and Lesotho.
Anyone from anywhere in the world can nominate Startup Superheroes in Southern Africa. The criteria is that the startup must be 5 years old or less, and must be located in one of the participating countries in the region.
ADJUDICATION
We have invited prestigious jury members from all over the world to adjudicate in the selection, including popular investors from Silicon Valley, and prominent startup ecosystem players in the region and locally. The dedication of time towards SASAwards by these leaders in their fields is a testament of the impact that has been created by the Global Startup Awards and it’s various regions.
Some of the jury include:
Jeff Burton ~ founding member of Electronic Arts (San Francisco,USA)
Tanya Soman ~ Venture Partner at 500 Startups (San Francisco, USA)
Omoju Miller ~ Senior Data Scientist, Machine Learning at GitHub (San Francisco Bay Area, USA)
Hussein Kanji ~ Partner at Hoxon Ventures (London, UK)
Lee Naik ~ CEO of Transunion Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Mixo Fortune Ngoveni ~ Founder & CEO of Geekulcha (Pretoria, South Africa)
Any many more Jury & Advisors
During the Regional Grand Finale, all finalists will have special access at the closed, invite-only conference to network with our partners and other players in the startup ecosystem including incubators/accelerators, venture capitalists/angel investors, co-working spaces, mentors / advisors, as well as development finance institutions and government representatives. Our international jury board will also be represented.
HOW IT WORKS
Global Startup Awards is a continuously growing network of regions, running is Europe, Asia and Africa and new regions coming next year from other continents. Our regions include:
Nordic countries in Europe ~ Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland
Central and Eastern Europe ~ Poland, Chechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
South-East Asia ~ Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
SAARC region ~ Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
And of course, as of 2018, SOUTHERN AFRICA!
Have a look how the competition works
SASAwards OFFERS VALUE
This opportunity offers the best value to startups who have achieved great strides, are determined to take their journey to the next level, and have a clear understanding of the steps they need to take to succeed. Southern Africa Startup Awards does not offer financial reward, we are the bridge that connects startups to the network they need to mobilise to realise their visions globally.
TESTIMONIALS
“The recognition as a winner in both the national and the regional round opens doors for business opportunities” ~ Albert Alexander, CEO at Glueck Technologies (Malaysia): Regional winner of “Best Deep Tech/AI/Big Data Startup” category in 2016 at the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards
“Nordic Startup Awards is a great organization because they recognize startups and make them visible. If they want to have success, they need this visibility; they need customers, investors and everyone to have a reference to them. Nordic Startup Awards is really helping them with that.” ~ Anette Nørgaard, NextGen AMM at Microsoft (Denmark): Sponsor of Nordic Startup Awards
“It is great to be noticed, and even better to be recognized — giving the team some satisfaction for the hard work put in. This recognition helped us in a great way with validating our solution to both partners and customers, we have heard from people they have noticed the award and were curious about us. We were in the middle of closing our seed round when we received this award so it was a nice boost when going through the investment process.” ~ Ingi Rafn Sigurdsson, CEO at Karolina Fund (Iceland): Regional winner of “Best Social Tech Startup” category in 2016 at Nordic Startup Awards
“Winning the Central European Startups Awards provided a boost in my efforts to successfully open Credo’s Silicon Valley office: it helped me to stand out from the crowd in the eyes of U.S. investors and pay more attention to our startups” ~ Andrej Kiska, Partner at Credo Ventures (Slovakia): Regional winner of the “Investor of the Year” category in 2016 at the Central European Startup Awards
Disclaimer: Under no circumstances will Global Startup Awards and its regions sell your private / business data. Being an European Union based company, we are fully GDPR compliant. Please note that there are no fees charged for startups to participate in this contest. Please be careful of intermediaries and/or impersonators who may attempt to defraud you.
