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12 years Founders Games - the world's impact innovation challenge!
Supporting exponential innovation for a better, healthier, desirable, accessible,
responsible sustainable and resilient future!
Founders Games 2019 Awards Ceremony!
Founders Games is the growth program of Webit.Festival available for companies with funding of $500K - $20M. It is a special, invitation-only program, with focus on high growth and high potential companies.
Over 200 investors - VC, business angels, family offices and tens of corporate partners from major companies around the world join the jury and the COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE selection process which shall identify the global winners.
in front of leading global & regional investors
The 12th annual Founders Games competition in 2022 will bring together the best founders, the world's top investors, corporate leaders and media to identify and endorse the cutting edge innovations and impact entrepreneurs globally.
IMPORTANT! The window for applications closes on March 31, 2022.
Webit is doing an enormous service.
Eric Schmid
Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Former CEO, Google
Founders Games is searching and endorsing AI, blockchain and exponential technologies based solutions aiming at making a positive change and shaping a better, inclusive, healthier, sustainable, resilient future. The verticals of the Founders Games include:
The startups which participated in the previous 2 editions and were among the finalists have grown exponentially with an average increase of their invested capital by 4.5 times! Many have oversubscribed their investment round almost immediately after their participation in the Founders Games.
| Startup | Domain | Funding before Webit | Total Funding after Webit | ||
| Wefarm | Food / agriculture | $9,7M Grant + Seed | $34.2M Series A | Pitch video | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TestCard | Health | $2.5M | $30M | Pitch video | Source |
| Sonavi Labs | Health | $1.8M Seed | $4.5M | Pitch video | Source |
| Mediktor | Health | $3M Series A | $15.8M Venture Round | Pitch video | Source |
| Medixine | Health | $3.2M Seed | $7.3M Equity Crowdfunding | Pitch video | Source |
| Elemeno Health | Health | $4M Seed | $7M | Pitch video | Source |
| Keyless | Cyber Security | $2.5M Pre Seed | $9.5M Seed Round | Pitch video | Source |
| Lightyear | Transport / Energy | $28M Series A | $110M Venture Round | Pitch video | Source |
| UAT (United Aircraft Technologies) | Transport/aviation | $530K Pre Seed | $1.9M Seed | Pitch video | Source |
| Bloom Biorenewables | Green energy | $2.5M Seed | €3.9M Seed | Pitch video | Source |
Upon your application you gain:
From second round onwards you will further get:
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Our jury will review your applications and select the ones to proceed.
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with responsible and ESG impact corporate & VC partners supporting their leadership and helping them innovate through collaboration with the startup/scaleup worlds.
In 2022 we take a step further. We want to expand our impact to many more millions of people and share our optimism about a world full of abundance of opportunities. A world made possible by bringing to light responsible, resilient lifestyle, exponential technologies and the people who will help the human kind to achieve it. See below and step into the adventure.
Тaking a leap into the metaverse! Weekly showcase of amazing technologies from the real world to the meta bridging the best of human potential & technology.
Part of our Webit Impact Forum - startups and scaleups from the 4 corners of the world will gather with VCs, investors, business & enterprise leaders for a showcase of their ideas, guidance and support, quality networking, knowledge sharing and media exposure.
Closing 2022 with the best of the best founders for the win of a $6M award.
Founders Games – Curating one of the planet’s most impactful innovation communities.
Our mission is to make more people aware of the challenges and yet manifest the opportunities by discovering the means of solving them through innovation, hard work and the dreams of thousands of founders & countless ecosystem players. This is why Webit announces the world's biggest annual award pool for impact startup competition.
$6’000’000 investment award and participation grants for the best startups.
The Founders Games have always been Webit's tool for fostering innovation and supporting the startup ecosystem globally. During the past 12 years we have been providing grants to hundreds of companies and supporting them in meeting the right partners, be recognized as future leaders, increase their funding, receive global media coverage, attract potential clients and grow.
Supporting discovery and development of impact exponential technologies.
For the past 15 years Webit has been committed to fostering a global community focusing on creating a sustainable and resilient future. 12 out of 15 years of Webit history, the Founders Games have been our way of giving back to the community and above all – empowering the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Join the collective intelligence scoring the most impactful innovations for the better, sustainable and resilient future.
The award investment is provided by Dr. Plamen Russev (chairman of Webit.Foundation, investor and serial entrepreneur) and prominent business angels.
Тhe form in which the investment will be paid is negotiable. It could be a convertible loan, which will convert into shares of preferred stock upon the closing of a next equity financing (Series A/B round of financing) at market terms for such an instrument. It could be in a bridge round or other solution in favour of the founders. The award may also also fund a pre-IPO investment round.
Participating in Founders Games grants the organizers the right to invest up to $5M in a single one or more startup finalists.
6 factors play major role in the selection process:
Team
Capacity
Project
Scalability
Business
Approach
Marketing
Approach
Uniqueness
of the Idea
Future
Impact
The startup finalists and semi-finalists have had a stellar success after their participation at Webit when being in the beginning of their exponential growth continuing on to today.
6 months after winning the 2019 Founders Games, WeFarm has raised $11M in Series A funding to expand its network for its knowledge-sharing platform for small-scale farmers. Since then they have rocketed on to tripling their funding to $32M.
The Netherlands-based company developing an ultra-energy-efficient automotive platform has had a stellar growth raising $110M in funding less than a year after its win at Webit 2020. They have already built 946 of their first long range solar electric vehicles designed to be grid independent and are on their quest to launch a second highly efficient solar EV at price less than €30K.
The UK FG 2019 finalist have raised funding of tenfold the amount before Webit with current funding at $30M. They have teamed up with 2 major hospitals in the UK to aid expansion for revolutionizing the accessibility and diagnostic capability of non-invasive at-home urinary tract testing.
The music interaction network has an impressive track record in helping artists succeed in their music and making music more enjoyable for the fans. In just 2 years after participating in Webit.Virtual 2020, they have raised funds tenfold their funding before Webit to $28M in their quest to bring back the value of music as an art form.
Leading journalists and correspondents from various worldwide media watch
and attend the Founders Games searching for the next great startup.
