Alumni adventure to China — Global Startup Awards

Former winners and other GSA alumni from different parts of the world were invited to Chengdu as guests of honor

Purpose of the trip

Build relationships with other GSA alumni
Meet the local investors
Meet/explore the local innovation ecosystem
Get introduced to local opportunities
Get an experience of a lifetime

After-event video

Citadines South Chengdu – the heart of the action

Located in the Central Business District of Tianfu, neighboring the Tianfu Software Park, it’s an immersion into the beating heart of Chengdu’s energy and technology! 🌆

The show venue

The hosts

CHENGdU

Chengdu has grown from a western China inland city into an international gateway hub and is making great efforts to build itself as a major hub of air and land ports, creating a robust platform for open cooperation, expanding international and domestic markets, and comprehensively enhancing the functions of an international gateway hub.

Cathay Partners

Cathay Partners is a worldwide business advisory platform, with a distinctive focus on China. We are specialists in enabling cross-border transactions, providing a comprehensive 360-degree support system for your overseas business ventures. From initial investment support to ensuring successful operations and growth, our global team of over 5000 advisors is committed to your success.

Sinofaith

Established in 2009, SINOFAITH IP GROUP is the leading professional service agency in intellectual property protection and monetization in China. 1,000+ employees | 100+ employees overseas | Nearly 1,000 large enterprise customers

One of the four representative enterprises representing the “Four New Economy” (new technology, new industry, new business form and new mode) by NDRC; Voted/Named as the “Unicorn” in emerging industries by PwC in 2018. “One-Stop” IP protection service, covering all areas of intellectual property businesses, including IP enforcement, monetization, prosecution, transactions, licensing, commercialization, finance, information technology, and big data.

Global Startup Awards (GSA)

The Global Startup Awards is the largest independent startup ecosystem competition in the world. GSA uses its competition framework and events to run programs across the whole world. The organisation has its HQ in Copenhagen and Budapest.

Global Startup Awards is present in 150 countries, divided into 19 regions, and growing fast.

Our alumni

Luz Adell Ibañez – CFO Draper B1 — Draper B1 is a venture capital management entity, it was founded in 2010 and has since invested in more than 100 startups. It was promoted by a team of entrepreneurs and investors who, in turn, founded the first Spanish accelerator specialized in promoting innovative business ideas.

Kalev Kärpuk – CEO Adact — Adact is a software that enables brands and agencies to create gamified marketing campaigns without writing any code.

Dr. Sarah Qureshi – CEO Aero Engine Craft — Aero Engine Craft Private Limited is developing the first generation of environment-friendly contrail-free aircraft engines for the global aviation industry. The product aims to address aviation induced global warming due to contrails; a non-carbon engine emission from aircraft.

Maren Cecilie Hald Bjoergum – CCO Emata — Emata offers a compelling and scalable solution to some of the world’s most underserved demographics. It seeks to disrupt and retake a broken financing system, to support both cooperatives and farmers, and already boasts massive growth. It helps all sides, and there’s nothing not to like about this initiative.

Tong W. Ratanapan – Head of Business Development, Skooldio — Skooldio is Thailand’s leading Edtech with a mission to help everyone master today’s most in-demand skills and empower businesses to build the workforce of the future. We offer a wide range of products to serve different learning needs, from short online courses to bootcamps.

Per Olof Lucas Nilsson – CTO, Bower — Bowers vision is to make recycling a rewarding no-brainer and create a world free from trash. That’s why weve developed a world-unique mobile app that rewards recycling of all consumer packaging at regular recycling bins.

Salma Alzoghby – CEO & Co-founder, Hiryo — Hiryo is a womens safety & anti-harassment app that utilizes high-end tech like AI to support women, help them feel safer & fight gender-based violence. We help women turn their loved ones into a private security team, report incidents, and get psychological & legal support.

Simon David Charles Davis – CCO and Co-founder, ScarabTech — ScarabTech is a highly efficient pyrolysis system that turns your plastic problem into an energy positive solution by changing single-use plastics into energy, cleanly and safely. Small, efficient and mobile, our machines can be moved to where the plastic is a problem – instead of shipping plastic to a central large machine in trucks, which burns even more corporate oil.

Johan Bender Koch – CEO, Pluto Technologies — Pluto empowers municipalities with a cost-effective asset management platform driven by AI. Automating data collection through computer vision, municipalities are able to save millions on smarter maintenance, and subsequently offer a well-operating infrastructure for all citizens.