Extreme Tech Challenge
The world's largest startup competition comes to Norway. The winners will compete in the finals in San Francisco in June.
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition, is partnering with Innovation Norway and BI Norwegian Business School to bring XTC to Norway for the first time! With Aksel Lund Svindal, Trond Riiber Knudsen and Tharald Nustad among the invited speakers.
XTC aims to accelerate startups changing the world for the better through innovative technologies by providing the opportunity for global visibility and access to investment capital, corporate strategic partnerships and world-class mentorship.
In 2021 alone, the XTC competition attracted over 3,700 startup applications from nearly 100 countries. 80 startup finalists were selected and 43% of those were female founded. The finalist cohort collectively raised over US $233 million in venture investment since being selected. XTC now boasts 21 regional competitions and 71 global partners composed of corporations, venture capital firms, universities, policymakers, and tech conferences and hundreds of informal partners.
This new Norway regional competition finale will be held on March 21, 2022 at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. Tech Startups founded or co-founded by Norwegian entrepreneurs are invited to apply to this new regional competition by March 4, 2022.
PARTICIPATE AS A STARTUP OR IN THE AUDIENCE
Are you a tech startup that wants to apply?
Learn more and apply here.
All students at BI are invited to join the event
WHATS IN THE PRIZE PURSE?
The top three winners from this regional competition – XTC 2022 Norway – will automatically become global finalists of the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 competition, where they will be invited to join a bootcamp training program with top corporate executives and venture capital investors. The top three startups will then compete against other startups in their respective technology categories for an opportunity to showcase their startups at the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals to be held in partnership with TechCrunch on June 14, 2022 in San Francisco.
See the Pitch Deck Guidance for helpful information. For additional resources to entrepreneurs, see Bootcamp Videos from 2020 and 2021 on the Extreme Tech Challenge YouTube channel.
Practical information
- Time:Monday, 21 March 2022 14:00 - 18:00
- Location:BI, Campus Oslo
- Enrolment deadline:March 17th
- Contact:Dan-Åsmund Bjørke (Dan-Asmund.Bjorke@bi.no)
Registration opens at 13:30
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ABOUT EXTREME TECH CHALLENGE
Extreme Tech Challenge is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose mission is to empower startups creating new tech innovations to address global challenges. It is the world’s largest ecosystem and competition for purpose-driven technology inspired by the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Extreme Tech Challenge™ competition is supported by leading corporations, venture capital investors, foundations, policymakers, universities and tech conferences to give exceptional startups the potential for global visibility, the opportunity to raise capital, the ability to network with global leaders, and access to world-class mentorship to help them pioneer technological breakthroughs that address our most extreme global challenges. A complete list of XTC partners and how to join can be found at www.extremetechchallenge.org.
