The One ASEAN Startup Award is now accepting applications for its second pre-event in Malaysia on 25 June 2024.

ERIA Digital Innovation and Sustainable Economy Centre (E-DISC) proudly presents the One ASEAN Startup Award with the vision to foster the growth of the startup ecosystem across ASEAN. The award aims to recognise, reward, and promote the brightest innovators to grow rapidly and solve ASEAN-wide issues, and join our journey to drive positive change to influence policymakers toward crafting an environment conducive to startup growth.

A judging committee, comprising esteemed experts from Southeast Asian nations and ERIA, will select ten startup finalists to attend the in-person pitch event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 25 June 2024. 

Applications are open until Sunday, 26 May 2024.  

Award Categories

Awards

• Pre-event award: US$10,000 will be granted to the winner in each category as a research fund with the commitment to be an E-DISC research partner.
• The grant will be 50% funded at the beginning of the research, with the remaining 50% allocated upon submission and acceptance of the research output.

Eligibility Criteria

• Startup which currently has business operations in Southeast Asia with no limitation on where the startup is from.
• Nominated entity should propose a research topic with an actual action plan and be willing to work together with ERIA experts on studies.
• Startups that were not selected as finalists for the first round are welcome to be nominated again

Benefits for Award Winners

• Broaden their networks by utilising the E-DISC network with startup ecosystem key players, including national agencies from ASEAN and member nations, venture capitalists (VCs), incubators, and large corporations.
• Invited as an E-DISC research partner for report and white paper publication, including policy recommendations.
• Research fund to be granted for collaborations with E-DISC. The research duration period is one year, and the results of the research will need to be submitted to ERIA for public publication.

How to Apply

1. Submit nominee information through nomination form. *Could be own company or other company
2. The secretariat team will reach out to nominees to confirm their willingness to be nominated.
3. Request information and pitch deck required for nominations.
4. Finalists for pre-events to be nominated by selection committee for each pre-event.
5. Finalist pitches in the pre-events and one winner will be selected from each group in each pre-event.
6. All the winners to pitch in the One ASEAN Startup Summit and business matching with large corporates and investors.

*Multiple-time nominations are accepted.

Nomination Form

Selection Schedule

• Five finalist startups to be selected for each category in each pre-event.
• Finalist startups will be invited to pre-event to pitch in-person at the event.
• Proposals on research topic for each category to be included in each pitch presentation.

Judging Criteria

The proposals will be evaluated based on the criteria shown below.

Schedule 

2nd Pre-event

Date: 25 June 2024

Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nomination Period: 23 April 2024 - 26 May 2024 

3rd Pre-event

Date: Aug 2024

Venue: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Nomination Period: End of June to mid-July 2024

Terms and Conditions

• Award prizes are granted under the condition the startup commits to be an E-DISC research partner in 2025 for a year.
• Award winners are requested to submit their research results to ERIA in documents within a year after the award is granted. The format and details of the report are to be discussed with ERIA.

For any inquiry, please email to [email protected]