2025 Startup World Cup Asia Finale

Startup World Cup (SWC), a world-class entrepreneurship platform under Pegasus Tech Ventures, gathers world-class startups, VCs (venture capitalists), and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. It also organizes regional pitches in more than 100 countries or regions around the globe every year.

As a major milestone in the SWC series, “ 2025 Startup World Cup Asia Finale”will be held in conjunction with AWS TechFest - Generative AI, a prestigious AWS technology event that provides startups with opportunities to go global. The top 3 teams from Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Macau, Thailand and Australia will be invited to compete for the championship. The champion will directly qualify for the “2025 Startup World Cup Grand Finale” to be held in Silicon Valley, the U.S. this October. The winner of the Grand Finale will receive a $1 million investment award.

The competition is organized by Pegasus Venture Capital, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supported by InvestHK. With the theme of “A Nexus of Global Excellence, Driving the Future”, the competition focuses on identifying high-potential entrepreneurial projects, and helps startups break through geographical boundaries by building a cross-border resource docking platform to accelerate both technological transformation and commercialization.

Benefit and opportunity:

• Participants can Engage in exchanges with renowned investors and global corporations, fostering partnerships and enhancing their brand influence.
• Broaden their international perspectives, envision future prospects, and connect with potential resources.
• Engage in face-to-face discussions with venture capital firms and CEOs from Fortune 500 companies in the future.
• Deeply participate in AWS TechFest - Generative AI special event, explore cutting-edge technology application cases, directly docking AWS ecological resources and global technology partners/investment opportunities in the field of generative AI, to seize the first opportunity for technical and commercial cooperation.

Agenda:

14:30-15:00 Registration

15:00-15:05 Opening Speech

15:05-15:15 Speech

15:15-16:20 Startup Pitching

16:20-16:55 Panel

16:55-17:00 Awards Ceremony

17:00- Networking

Startup Pitch Format:

• The top 3 teams from Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Macau, Thailand and Australia will be invited to compete for the championship.
• Each team will be required to pitch to theFinale Judging Panel within 4 minutes, followed by a 2 minutes Q&A.

Offline Participation

Time: Wednesday, September 3, 2025,2:30 PM - 5:00 PM HKT

Venue: Hopewell Hotel, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Host or Publisher Pegasus Tech Ventures