Extreme Tech Challenge

📣 Quick update! The deadline to apply for the Semiconductors & AI for Climate Startup Cup has been extended to Tuesday, September 3rd! 🎉 You're welcome! Don’t miss out, apply now, or share with someone who should be in the running!   👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eTQNvAyS Big thank you to our sponsors, Arm and Foxconn #innovation #startups #ai #climate #semiconductors #pitch

We can't wait! With just over one week to go, it's now time to get your application in for this year's Semiconductors & AI for Climate Startup Cup 🏆 Apply now for this incredible opportunity, or share with someone who should be in the spotlight. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eTQNvAyS Special thanks to our sponsors, Arm and Foxconn #innovation #startups #ai #climate #semiconductors #pitch #tech

Create your own success story just like Kinga Matuła! Apply now to pitch your Semiconductor & AI projects to industry leaders and top investors in San Francisco this October. Only a few days remain to apply! 👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eTQNvAyS Proudly sponsored by Arm and Foxconn #innovation #startups #ai #tech #semiconductors #investors

Don’t miss your chance to pitch your Semiconductor & AI projects to corporate executives and venture capitalists in San Francisco! Apply now for this incredible opportunity, or share with someone who should be in the spotlight. 👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eTQNvAyS Proudly sponsored by Arm and FOXCONN HON HAI TECHNOLOGY #innovation #startups #ai #climate #semiconductors #datacenters

📣 Extreme Tech Challenge announces the Semiconductors & AI for Climate Startup Cup, sponsored by Arm and FOXCONN HON HAI TECHNOLOGY! ✍ Applications are open now and close August 31, 2024. The goal of the XTC Startup Cup is to accelerate #semiconductor and AI technologies that can lead to a sustainable and environmentally friendly future. 🌍 We invite innovative startups from across the globe to apply for this exciting competition, and we want to receive applications from every continent! Competition Tracks 🔹 Semiconductors and Ecosystem Innovations in advancing semiconductors and innovations in the supporting ecosystem, from chip design, manufacturing and materials to the broader ecosystem, including software, integration, and applications that rely on semiconductor advancements. 🔹 AI and Data Infrastructure Hardware and software environment designed to support AI and ML workloads. This infrastructure is crucial for efficiently processing large volumes of data, training complex models and deploying AI applications across various sectors. Key components: Computational Power, LLM, Networking and Connectivity. 🏅 Special Award: Data Center Efficiency Bonus! We’ll present a special award to the startup with the most viable and greatest impact to advance data center efficiency. The award will be presented to one of the Top 8 Finalists (four startups per track). Why should startups apply? 🌎 Global visibility: Pitch at the finals announcement and networking reception during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. 🚀 Connections and strategic partnerships: meet global industry leaders with massive potential for business development and collaboration. 🫱🏻🫲🏽 Network with startup founders, startup ecosystem builders, public sector stakeholders and VCs who can provide rocket fuel to scale groundbreaking technologies. 🖊️ Application open: August 5, 2024 📅 Application close: August 31, 2024 🏆 Finalist Announcement and Networking Reception: October 28, 2024 | TechCrunch Disrupt Side Event, San Francisco (venue TBD) 🏆 Live Pitch Event & Winner Announcement: January 7, 2025 | CES, Las Vegas Check out the Semiconductor & AI for Climate Startup Cup event page: https://lnkd.in/eQ2knpN2 Apply directly here: https://lnkd.in/eTQNvAyS #innovation #startups #ai #climate #datacenters Victoria Nancy John Shail Techleap Lars NXP Semiconductors ASML Young Bill Walden Catalyst Ventures Constantijn HighTechXL Silicon Catalyst Maureen McDonagh Will Abbey Christopher Bergey Rosalie Tribe Fran Baker J.R. Wu Jimmy Huang

📣 Breaking news! We're thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with FOXCONN HON HAI TECHNOLOGY (“Foxconn”), the world's largest electronics manufacturer. We’re expanding our #ecosystem and joining forces with Foxconn to support innovations that solve the world's most critical challenges. 🤝🏻 The partnership is a powerful fusion of Foxconn’s industrial expertise and visionary innovation and Extreme Tech Challenge's global innovation ecosystem. “This partnership represents a significant step forward in our mission to harness the power of technology to address the urgent challenge of climate change,” said Young Sohn, Extreme Tech Challenge Co-founder. “With Foxconn's manufacturing expertise and XTC’s global network, we offer visionary founders the platform and jet fuel they need to scale their solutions. Together, we can make meaningful progress towards a sustainable and resilient future.” 🌎 🚀 We’re kicking off the partnership with a new startup competition, which will be announced soon. Stay tuned! Read the full announcement post here 👉 https://2ly.link/1z8PL #partnership #sustainability #innovation #semiconductor #ai Victoria Nancy Shail John Cheryl Bill Lars Catherine Walden Catalyst Ventures Amandine Techleap

🙌 🙌 Whoop! Whoop! Announcing the semi-finalists of the World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards 2024! In partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and sponsored by ADM, Kilburn & Strode, Next Tech Food Factories, Smart Sensors 4 Agri Food, HIGHFIVE, QING | Forward Engineering and UNIDO Innovation Lab, we congratulate the semi-finalists of the fourth annual World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards! 🏆 The competition showcases breakthrough innovations in AgTech & Food, giving innovators and founders a forum to pitch their commercially viable and scalable solutions and get them to market. Semi-finalists submitted applications for four new award categories: 🚀 Digital Innovation in Food Processing: ♀ Empowering Women in AgriFood Systems 🌾 Food Loss 🌎 Good Food for All, for Today and Tomorrow 📣 Shout-out to our evaluation committee for selecting the outstanding 35 semi-finalists from a pool of 240 application submissions from 53 countries! Semi-finalists advance to the next round of pitching to a panel of judges, who will choose eight finalists for the finals round. 🎤 The final pitching round will be held at the FAO headquarters at the World Food Forum Flagship event, October 16, 2024, in Rome, Italy. Congrats to all our semi-finalists! 👏👏 Read the full announcement 👉 https://2ly.link/1z5QD #agrifood #foodscarcity #foodprocessing #empoweringwomen #foodloss #digitalinnovation #foodsecurity #impact #innovation #pitchcompetition SS4AF Victoria Nancy Shail John Cheryl Edward Celeste Samuel Pablo Young Bill Amandine

🥁 Drumroll, please! Announcing the Top 6 Finalists for the Peace, Justice & Inclusive Society Startup Competition! 🕊️ ⚖️ 🚀 AIDONIC empowers NGOs, UN and government agencies, global donors and philanthropic organizations with digital tools that streamline funding, enhance aid delivery and provide transparency to private and institutional donors. Based in Switzerland. 🇨🇭 🚑 Alatpres is a public safety emergency notification and disaster management app that focuses on fast and reliable sharing of safety alerts across different pre-configured levels of response and assist in coordinated response to any public safety incident. Based in Kenya. 🇰🇪 ✅ Digizen is the first digital identification approved by the Bank of Papua New Guinea for banking transactions. Digizen re-designed the process of establishing verified identities, issuing ID cards instantly in rural villages – even without Internet connectivity. Based in Finland. 🇫🇮 ⚖️ Indexalaw developed technology that focuses on legal analytic and integration law information, enabling legal professionals to find, integrate and visualize all data to give deeper understanding of legal information. This helps professionals conduct legal research, gather information and improve professional workflow processes in commercial, litigation and public service legal assistance. Based in Indonesia. 🇮🇩 🔎 Simple Proof developed technology to enhance transparency and ensure the authenticity of documents by incorporating robust blockchain-based timestamping into current processes. This enables anyone to independently verify whether documents have been altered. Based in the USA. 🇺🇸 👩🏻🏫 TOMi inc developed innovative technologies for mediating teaching and learning experiences. TOMi is a teacher’s assistant, which connects to a projector, TV or screen with the option to interact through an optical pen, keyboard, mouse or mobile device to function as an interactive whiteboard and grading assistant, for example, significantly impacting students’ learning process. Based in Colombia. 🇨🇴 The Government of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with XTC and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the competition in a concerted effort to align technological innovation with the United Nations SDG 16. 🎤 Finalists will pitch on the global stage during the UN Summit of the Future in New York in September. Congratulations to our Top 6 finalists! 👏🏽👏🏽 Read more about the competition here 👉 https://2ly.link/1z3xC #peacejusticeinclusion #unsdg16 #innovation #impact #pitchcompetition Victoria Nancy Shail John Cheryl Young Bill Felicia Ellen Lars Catherine Techleap

2024 TNW Conference was a “really big success,” according to ecosystem partner Andy Lurling, Founding Partner at LUMO Labs. Our mission at TNW was three-fold: ✅ Strengthen and expand the deep tech #ecosystem ✅ Share knowledge from global industry tech leaders on the immense challenges and opportunities in semiconductor and AI innovation and the investor landscape for European #deeptech startups ✅ Showcase the most promising deep-tech startups with the technology, teams and ambition to build companies of the future. Mission accomplished. 🙌 Here’s how the day played out: 🎤 Opening remarks: Andy Lurling 🔥 Fireside Chat: Deep Tech Trends: What we can expect by 2030 with Young Sohn and Lars Reger 🚀 The State of European Deep Tech panel discussion with Cyril Vančura, Thomas Oehl and Harm de Vries, moderated by Victoria Slivkoff 🔥 Fireside Chat: Secorro Green and Nicolas Autret 🎤 The Global Deep Tech Startup Competition final pitching round with Top 5 finalists Calectra, Matrix Health & Care, Parrots AI, QurieGen 🏆 (WINNER!) and REBLADE. 🤝 Plus pre- and post-event dinners and premium networking at VIP Village and locations around #amsterdam! Read the event recap here 👉 https://2ly.link/1yyVy See all the photos and videos here 👉 https://2ly.link/1yyW5 #tnw2024 #impact #startups #investors #ecosystem #semiconductor #ai #innovation #firesidechat #paneldiscussion #pitchevent #networking #xtc Nancy John Cheryl Bill NXP Semiconductors Walden Catalyst Ventures Innovation Industries Vsquared Ventures Cristina Marcus Sabine Remco Kinga Erin Stiliyana Pauliina Frank Zach Oliviana Sophie Amandine Constantijn Techleap

🙌 Shout out to ADM Cares, who is sponsoring the World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards! The Startup Innovation Awards empower young #entrepreneurs revolutionizing global #agrifood systems. The competition provides finalists with the opportunity to achieve global visibility, network with partners in our ecosystem, and participate in the World Food Forum startup accelerator programs to scale their solutions. 🌎 The World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards, powered by Extreme Tech Challenge and sponsored by ADM, is a global program to elevate #startups that are using technology creatively to address some of the current challenges facing global agrifood systems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, soil degradation and others. The fourth annual startup competition showcases breakthrough innovations in AgTech & Food in the following categories: 🚀 Digital Innovation in Food Processing ♀ Empowering Women in Agrifood Systems 🌾 Food Loss 🌍 Good Food for All, for Today and Tomorrow 🏆 Startup Innovation of the Year 🎤 The finalists will attend the WFF Startup Innovation Awards Finals in Rome on World Food Day, October 16, 2024, where they will pitch on stage to a panel of high-level judges from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners. Martin Kropp, President ADM Africa, and Ana Yaluff, Director of Sustainability EMEA, will be involved in selecting the finalists. There is a total of $50,000 available in prizes for the finalists. "With the challenges facing global agrifood systems, initiatives to support startups using sustainable solutions are of vital importance,” said Martin Kropp. “I look forward to reviewing the applications and seeing refreshing approaches to tackle food insecurity." Read the full article here 👉 https://2ly.link/1ypD0 Learn more about the awards here 👉 https://2ly.link/1ypD5 #foodinsecurity #foodloss #foodprocessing #innovation #impact United Nations Victoria Nancy Shail John Cheryl Young Bill Lars Catherine Megan Samuel Pablo Edward Ana Abir Celeste Lorenzo