GeneStory, a start-up in the healthcare sector, has become the winner of VietChallenge 2022, the biggest fund calling contest for Vietnamese startups around the world held at Nasdaq, the second biggest stock exchange on the globe.
Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang has joined two leaders of VietChallenge, known as the largest fundraising contest for Vietnamese-born startups worldwide, to ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York.
The national fund for employment’s loan assistance of 2 billion VND (86,784 USD) will be distributed among winners of an ongoing startup contest for rural youths this year, according to organisers.
Medlink – the supplier of a platform for direct connectivity among drug companies and pharmacies has won the first prize of VietChallenge 2019, an annual startup competition for Vietnamese entrepreneurs from all over the world.
The Vietnamese Students’ Association of New South Wales (VSA NSW) organised a conference on July 13 to kick off the first startup competition for Vietnamese students and alumni in Australia.
The BedLinker.com project – an online platform for tourism-hotel service transactions, has surpassed nine outstanding projects nationwide to win an innovative tourism startup competition at its final round in Hanoi on June 18.
A team from the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi won the first prize at the “Start-up Francophone 2018” competition for Asian – Pacific students at its finale in Hanoi on September 28.
SunRice team from the University College of London with its rice drying model based on Vietnam’s rice grain drying technology has won the first place of the Hult Prize competition for start-ups.
The annual contest Startup Wheel 2017 was launched on May 16 in Ho Chi Minh City to encourage startup spirit among students and youth aged 18-35 across the country.
The Easyjob team with their job-finding phone application came in first at the Start Tel Aviv 2016, a startup contest hosted by the Israeli Embassy in Vietnam, on June 26.
The 4th annual Startup Wheel 2016 contest was launched on May 11 by the HCM City Youth Federation’s Business Startup Support Centre in cooperation with the HCM City Young Business People Association.
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