Startup Arena: Pitch, Demo, and Battle For US$10,000

We publicly announced Startup Asia Singapore yesterday and the feedback has been pretty good (thank you), especially for Startup Arena.

Startup Arena is the very core of our event, Startup Asia, where 15 startups will pitch, demo, and battle for US$10,000 in cash. We have already received dozens of startup pitches (some even pitched by calling my mobile).

We hope to receive more, though. So go ahead and give us a selection headache — submit your pitch here. It will only help to raise the bar higher. But make it sooner because we’ll shut off the submission form as soon as we have picked our final 15.

And FYI, we have already selected several startups who will launch and demo their products on 2 and 3 February 2012. These startups will only be unveiled on Startup Asia Singapore itself.

For startups who are looking to showcase their products but not pitch, you can do so by getting a booth. Use the code ‘booth40’ (without inverted commas) to get a 40 percent discount. Note that this discount code will expire at the end of November 2011. So be quick, click here to sign up as we have limited booth spaces to offer.

Anyways, there will be investors and entrepreneurs from Japan, Indonesia, India, and Singapore (duh) joining our event. So it should be pretty worthwhile networking with these folks.