NUS Blockchain

Pitch Night

Unlocking Potential: Innovating for a Future with Blockchain 

We are reaching out to blockchain innovators to pitch your idea to a panel of distinguished investors and blockchain industry leaders. Get unhinged feedback on the potential of your blockchain new venture idea.

Objective 

Provide a platform for aspired entrepreneurs and/or innovators with blockchain solutions to propose credible and creative blockchain solutions that can create positive impact.

Theme

Participants can pitch any idea that utilizes the unique properties of blockchain. The proposed solution should have a positive impact on the ecosystem. Participant can consider submitting proposals that include but are not limited to: Blockchain for social good, healthcare, supply chain, cybersecurity, education and many others.  

Participants can also pair blockchain with other innovation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, Quantum Technologies and other emerging fields of innovation to come up with creative solutions.

Qualifying Criteria

This event is open to all. We encourage participants to form teams, but you can submit a proposal individually too.  

Proposed solutions should not have been commercialized before. This means that the solution should not be used in an incorporated company, or already utilized by a large base of users.  

In addition, selected proposals MUST have at least one member who will be able to pitch physically at the pitch night on 12th October 2023 at National University of Singapore, main campus, Singapore.  

Date

12th October 2023

Time

6:00pm to 9:00pm

Venue

National University of Singapore
iCube Building, Level 2,
Singapore 119613

Timeline

Hackaton Timeline- NUS Blockchain Pitch Night

Schedule

6:00pm Opening Ceremony
6:05pm - 7:45pm Project Presentations
7:45pm - 8:00pm Award and Closing
8:00pm - 9:00pm Networking Session

Dinner will be provided from 7pm onwards

Support Available

Selected teams will be invited for pitch training on 6 Oct or 9 Oct 12-2pm

Judges

Photo-Edward Tay

Edward Tay

Associate Professor (Practice)
United Nations Institute of Training & Research

Glenn Gore

Glenn Gore

CEO
LemmaTree and Affinidi

Tuan Cao

Tuan Cao

Co-Founder and CEO
Genetica

 

Prizes

  • Guaranteed spot at the Singapore cohort of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy for the winning team (up to 3 students).

Read more about the Polkadot Blockchain Academy here.

 

  • VIP Grant - $10,000 ideation grant to be awarded to up to 3 eligible* teams

* The team MUST have a member who is either a current NUS student or alumni. Subject to the student(s) submitting an application with acceptable milestones and usage of funds, and to the standard T&Cs of the NUS Enterprise Venture Initiation Programme

About Us

Blockchain Pitch is a ground-up blockchain new venture creation initiative by NUS AIDF and NUS Enterprise to develop community to support students and researchers who are interested in creating their own web3-based startups.

Community Partners

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The Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) is a university-level institute in the National University of Singapore (NUS), jointly founded by The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the National Research Foundation (NRF) and NUS. AIDF aspires to be a thought leader, a FinTech knowledge hub, and an experimental site for developing digital financial technologies as well as for nurturing current and future FinTech researchers and practitioners in Asia. 

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NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), advances innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond.

It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to: aidf@nus.edu.sg