Schedule

Awards

1. Singapore Regional Finalists (12-14 teams)

- Eligibility for Alibaba Cloud’s international startup program Create@Alibaba Cloud where participants will receive and win USD $10,000 credit in cloud resources and free 1 on 1 Cloud infrastructure solution planning with Alibaba Cloud Architects.
- ICP application support, making it easy and smooth to set up your website and applications in China.
- Opportunities to connect with investors/incubators/co-working spaces in China.

2. CACSC Singapore Regional Winners (2 teams)

Two teams will be selected as the Singapore regional winners who will receive following additional awards:
- USD $50,000 credit to be used on Alibaba Cloud products and services.
- Invited to compete in the World Final at the Alibaba Cloud Yunqi Conference. There the winner will have the opportunity to meet the top investment firms in China and gain coverage from global media. (Hotels and conference entrance are sponsored by Alibaba Cloud)

3. The CACSC World Champion (1 team)

In addition to the benefits mentioned above, the winner of the global final, held in Hangzhou, China on October 2016, will receive the following rewards:
A seat in the Alibaba Cloud’s 18 Founders program, and receive USD $216,000 credit to be used for Alibaba Cloud products and services, and a tailor-made marketing support plan which will give the winner access to global media exposure and opportunities to meet with investors.

Competition Entry Requirements, Rules & Notes

1. Entry requirements & judging criterion

The entry requirements and judging criterion see the contest main page.
Only companies registered in the South-east Asia can participate in the CACSC Singapore session.

2. Competition rules

-   Sign-up: Startups can sign-up through Alibaba Cloud website and our partners’ channels, or recommended by others, the application requires basic company information and the detailed business profile (details see the Application Form, and pls send the Form to CACSC@list.alibaba-inc.com).
-   Pre-screen:The CACSC Singapore contest committee will carefully read the materials of each applicant, and may call or email the applicants to verify applicant's information or collect additional detail of the submission. 12-14 startup companies will be selected for the Singapore regional final and they will be notified the detailed of the arrangements for the Demo Day on August 26th.
-   Singapore regional final: We will hold the demo day in public area, each startup in the finalist choose one representative to introduce their project, and the judges will select two winners for the world final in China.

3. Time and venue of the Singapore final

Time: Aug. 26, 8:30am-12:30pm
Venue: BASH, #03-01, 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139955

4. Notes

Any company selected for the Singapore regional finalist which had joined Create@Alibaba Cloud program, will not receive an additional USD 10,000 cloud resource credit.

Meet the Judges

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  Dr. Alex LIN, Head of Infocomm Investments

  As Head of Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd, Dr. Alex LIN leads the team of investment professionals to develop the Infocomm start-up ecosystem in Singapore through strategic investments in promising companies. For the last 10 years, Alex has been actively building companies, mentoring entrepreneurs and investing in promising start-ups. He has held numerous entrepreneurship and investment related roles in various organizations. Prior to his investment and mentoring roles, Alex had held senior positions in global companies like FedEx, Hewlett Packard’s (HP), SembCorp Logistics. He also started and exited several technology-based companies. Alex is highly engaged in community service especially when it involves the entrepreneurship development space. He is an active member of Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and an ACE grant review panelist. Alex obtained his Electrical & Computer Engineering degree at University of Wisconsin (Madison) and Doctorate at Stanford University.

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  Joey Tan, Head of Global Strategic Projects, Alibaba Cloud International

  As Head of Global Strategic Projects in Alibaba International, Joey is responsible for various strategies including the expansion of Alibaba global cloud datacenter coverage, through third party strategic alliance and joint ventures. His portfolio includes forming new partnership with business leaders, incubators and educators to accelerate the development of cloud and data driven ecosystems for their local economy. Prior to Alibaba, Joey had led the Cloud + Enterprise Business Group at Microsoft, and headed the Strategic Partner Architecture practice for Oracle’ Technology business in Greater China and South East Asia. Joey has more than 17 year of experience in Infocomm Industry, 9 years are in business engineering and transformation. He also designed various reference architecture for key businesses and partners across Asia Pacific region. He currently resides in Singapore.

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  David Gowdey, Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures

  Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures, a Singapore based venture capital firm focused on internet and technology investments in South Asia. Prior to Jungle, David spent 3.5 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund. David continues to be a Senior Advisor at TPG Capital and represents them as a non-executive director on two boards, including Propertyguru, the largest online real estate platform in SE Asia. Prior to TPG, David spent 12 years at Yahoo! Inc where he was the Head of International M&A on the Corporate Development team.

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  Stanley Zhang, Founder and Managing Director of Jubilee Capital

  Founder and managing director of Jubilee Capital Management Pte. Ltd (JCM), managing a tech venture capital fund actively in China, Singapore, US, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Before establishing JCM, Stanley was chairman and CEO of HiChina Group Ltd., the No. 1 webhosting and domain name service provider in China. As a pioneer in China's internet industry, Stanley built his leadership and influence by enabling thousands of traditional enterprises transforming to e-enterprises in China. He was awarded "Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of Beijing" in 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008 by Beijing municipal government, and “Outstanding Entrepreneur” by Beijing Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park. Stanley graduated from the department of electronic engineering of Tsinghua University in 1989, and received his EMBA master's degree from Tsinghua University in 2005, where he was the president of Tsinghua University Students Electronics Association and an IEEE student member.

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  Jeffrey Paine, Managing Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

  Jeffrey Paine is the founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology venture capital fund based in Singapore investing in Southeast Asia with over US$60 million under management. Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore where he is currently overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 100 companies. He is a recipient of the Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for "Greatest Ecosystem Impact" Worldwide (Singapore). He is a Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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  Ramesh Narayanaswamy, SingPost CIO

  Ramesh Narayanaswamy is currently the Group Chief Information Officer for Singapore Post where he is responsible for strategy, execution and support for all the technology needs for Group Singapore Post businesses. Ramesh Joined Singapore Post from Standard Chartered Bank where he was the Group Head of Technology Solution Delivery for retail banking which included credit cards, core banking, mortgage and personal loans, credit risk and fraud systems. Before Standard Chartered Ramesh was involved in various banking projects in Citibank. Ramesh is a seasoned technology expert in strategizing, building and supporting systems to create superior value for businesses, and also an expert in the field of payments and credit cards. Ramesh holds a bachelor in Engineering and Masters in Science from India’s prestigious BITS Pilani Rajasthan and MBA in Strategy form Nanyang Business School.

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  Willson Cuaca, Co-founder & Managing Partner, East Ventures

  Willson Cuaca is co-founder and managing partner of East Ventures, an early stage investment fund focus on consumer Internet, mobile and SaaS.?East Ventures started investing in Indonesia in year 2010 when no one believes in Indonesia's consumer Internet potential. East Ventures has funded over 80+ early stage companies in South East Asia. Most of the companies manage to get subsequent funding round and ride on top of Indonesia middle class consumer growth. East Ventures also made exits from its investment through M&A to local and international companies. Willson also sits on advisory board of Code4Nation.id, a grass root developer movement to help Indonesia government solve problem through various hackathon. He brings his expertise in ecosystem building and product/market-fit to accelerate product delivery and value proposition of the movement.

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  Kuan Hsu, Co-founder & General Partner, KK Fund

  Kuan Hsu is the Co-Founder and General Partner of KK Fund, focusing on early stage internet and mobile investments in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He started his career in management consulting with McKinsey & Co. in the US, then focused on supply chain management in the US and China while at Solectron, an Electronics Manufacturing Services provider. Kuan obtained an MBA/MA joint degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and became an investment banker in the US with Goldman Sachs executing M&A deals in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector. He subsequently moved to Singapore, executing PE deals at Temasek throughout the region prior to becoming a Venture Capitalist responsible for GREE Ventures' Southeast Asian operations.

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