Deadline: 1 March 2025
Snowflake and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) join forces once again to ignite innovation and empower AI startups around the world with the Snowflake Startup Challenge!
The Snowflake Startup Challenge is a contest for early-stage startups that are building innovative applications and products powered by Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
Benefits
- The winner and finalists may receive up to $1 million in investments from Snowflake, mentorship from industry leaders at NYSE-listed companies, along with global exposure, and the opportunity to ring the NYSE Bell!
What they’re looking for?
- Business Potential
- What is the market opportunity? Does it address an unmet need? How does it complement Snowflake?
- Innovation
- How unique is your application? How are you disrupting the world with AI?
- Snowflake Leverage
- How does the startup leverage Snowflake? Does it leverage a broad set of Snowflake features?
- The Team
- Does your leadership team have the experience required and ability to execute?
Eligibility Criteria
- The Contest is only open to valid entities (each, a “Startup”) that:
- if in the United States, are C corporations or LLCs, and if outside the United States, are equivalent entities in the jurisdictions that the Startups were formed and/or incorporated; and
- are in good standing and in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, and ordinances (collectively “Laws”) in each jurisdiction in which they were formed and/or incorporated, and are operating and are permitted by the Laws of each such jurisdiction to enter and compete in this Contest. In addition, to be eligible to enter the Contest, the Startup must, as of the entry date and through the date the Winner is announced:
- have raised no more than $5 million USD in cash funding;
- have not received any cash funding through the sale of equity securities of the Startup, including through a Series A or other priced round of funding;
- have not received any valuation as a result of an equity financing.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following persons and entities are not eligible to enter the Contest:
- individuals and sole proprietorships;
- entities organized or governed under the laws of:
- Quebec or Brazil; and
- Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria, or any country or territory that may, from time to time, become subject to U.S. export controls or designated as a country that is subject to a general prohibition on U.S. persons engaging in financial and/or export transactions, or entities on any restricted or prohibited party list maintained by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury;
- system integrators and professional services firms (collectively, “Managed Service Providers”), including subsidiaries of Managed Service Providers;
- employees of Snowflake, or of any Company involved in the development, administration, or judging of the Contest; and each of their respective directors, officers, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers, representatives, agents, immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each;
- entities that are managed or majority owned by individuals.
For more information, visit Snowflake.