India-Croatia Startup Challenge 2022 [Grants Available]: Register by May 20

 Registrations are invited from eligible and interested registered startups (from early to late-stage) for the India-Croatia Startup Challenge 2022.

About India-Croatia Startup Challenge

India and Croatia are synergizing in order to address some of the world’s pressing innovation challenges. Startup India and HAMAG-BICRO would like to identify and support innovations and start-ups working in sustainability, livelihood, education and skill development sectors.

This grand challenge will not only support innovative start-ups and technologies in India and Croatia to co-develop solutions but also help provide startups avenues to scale these solutions across borders.

Eligibility

The India-Croatia Startup Challenge 2022 is open to all the registered startups (from early to late-stage) from India and Croatia working in the areas indicated in the problem statements.

Incentives

• Fiscal Incentives: Cash prize for the best startup of 10,000.00 HRK amounting to ~1.10 lakhs for problem statement decent work and economic growth (sponsored by KONČAR)
• Non-Fiscal Incentives:
  • A free scale-up program worth $2000 each to 12 (six from India and six from Croatia) successful participants amounting to ~ INR 18.24 lakhs (sponsored by Hexgn)
  • Out of the 12 successful participants, Infobip (IB) will choose upto 3 best startup with IB use case and will give $10,000 each amounting to ~INR 22.60 lakhs worth of credits which can be used on Infobip’s products and services. The startups will also receive onboarding assistance from Infobip’s team in order to maximize the value which IB’s products can bring to the startup’s growth.

How to Register?

Interested applicants can apply for the challenge through this link.

Registration Deadline

May 20, 2022

Contact

Email: startupbridgeIND-CRO@hamagbicro.hr

Click here to view the official notification for the India-Croatia Startup Challenge 2022.