SLINGSHOT 2025 – Deep Tech Startup Pitching Competition

• Prize Amount – S$60,000–S$400,000
• Deadline – July 11, 2025
• CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Applications are now open for S$400,000 SLINGSHOT 2025 – Deep Tech Startup Pitching Competition.

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Embark on the 9th edition of SLINGSHOT, a global deep tech startup competition from Singapore to the world, and make the pitch of a lifetime in the presence of key industry leaders and a global audience of investors.

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Domains

• Transformative Digital Technologies
  • Categories under this domain include:
    • 5G
    • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
    • Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality
    • Big Data
    • Cloud Computing
    • Consumer Technologies (Advertising Technologies, Content and Marketing, Product Personalisation Technologies, Retail Technologies, Customer Experience & Service Technologies, Food Technologies, Entertainment, Fashion Technologies, Education Technologies, Tourism)
    • Cyber Security
    • Financial Technologies (Insurtech and P2P Lending)
    • Legal Technologies
    • Privacy and Security
    • Quantum Computing
    • Real Estate
    • Smart City/Smart Home
    • Social Impact
    • Space Tech
    • Web3
• Health and Biomedical
  • Join them if you have disruptive solutions in the following areas:
    • Biotech
    • Digital health
    • Health IT
    • Medtech
    • Mental Health
    • Nanomedicine
    • Public Health & Epidemiologies
    • Regenerative Medicine
    • Telemedicine & Remote Patient Monitoring
• Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity
  • Innovative startups in the following areas are welcome to participate:
    • 3D/4D Printing
    • Advanced Manufacturing
    • Control System
    • IoT and Sensors
    • Mobility, Transportation and Logistics
    • Robotics and Automation
    • Smart Factories
• Environment, Energy and Green Technologies
  • If you have a game changing innovation that tackles the following, this category is for you.
    • Clean Energy (Energy Storage, Renewable and Alternative Energy, Smart Grids)
    • Climate Solutions (Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation, Nature-based Solutions & Ecological Restoration, Carbon Capture, Monitoring Solutions)
    • Infrastructure (Green Building & Sustainable Construction, Waste Management and Treatment Solutions)
    • Materials/Packaging
    • Sustainable Agriculture (Agriculture Technologies, AgriFood Technologies, Regenerative Designs, Ecosystem Restoration)
    • Water and Environment

Funding Information

• Grand Winner of SLINGSHOT 2025:
  • S$400,000 Startup SG Grant Prize
• 1st Runner Up of SLINGSHOT 2025:
  • S$300,000 Startup SG Grant Prize
• 2nd Runner Up of SLINGSHOT 2025:
  • S$200,000 Startup SG Grant Prize
• The Top 12 Global Startups will each receive:
  • S$60,000 Startup SG Grant Prize
• The Top 60 Global Startups will each receive:
  • A sponsored trip to Singapore to participate in the Physical Immersion programme
  • An exclusive invitation to compete at SLINGSHOT 2025 Domain Finals, held at SWITCH
  • One complimentary SWITCH 2025 exhibition poster to showcase your startup and solutions
  • Eligibility for EntrePass, the working visa for foreign entrepreneurs in Singapore [International applicants only]

Eligibility:

• This Competition is open and offered solely to:
  • Business entities, regardless of their business area. Startups may be required, in the Organiser’s sole discretion, to provide proof of company registration by submitting a registration certificate issued within the last three (3) months, or ongoing company registration/business profile, or any trade registry and proof ensuring the registration of the entity in the relevant country.
• Any technology-based startups that meet the following conditions are eligible to participate:
  • Develops or possesses innovation
  • Has been registered within the past 10 years in their country of registration
  • Is not a subsidiary of a corporate entity
• Startups participating should have the goal of incorporating in Singapore.

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