PROGRAM

FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge

Get a chance to join a blockchain accelerator and pitch to investors

Watch the FT x Cardano Blockchain Finals!

Watch the FT x Cardano Blockchain Finals live from the Financial Times studio in London! Meet the amazing speakers from the entrepreneurship and blockchain industry. Get the chance to network with the community and find out who will be named the best blockchain startup in emerging markets!

Speakers

Jury

Finalists

The Finals Agenda

13:00 - 13:10

Insights of Challenge

Welcome words by Seedstars, Cardano and Financial Times

June 22, 2022

13:10 - 14:30

The power of blockchain in emerging markets

Panel discussion with industry experts

June 22, 2022

14:30 - 14:45

Winner Annoucement

Pitch of the best blockchain startups from emerging markets

June 22, 2022

The Program

FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge in association with Project Catalyst, Seedstars, and FT Talent by Financial Times has a mission to source ventures interested in leveraging the Cardano Blockchain platform & community and engage with ventures interested in building on Cardano.

Throughout the program, the selected startups will get a chance to participate in a 3-day Bootcamp, connect to Seedstars’ network of mentors, and receive tech perks. The global winner will get a short-track to Seedstars’ International Ventures Fund. Additionally, 24 startups will be selected to participate in a 3-month Acceleration Program.

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Benefits

Access to knowledge (participating in 3 days bootcamp, 1-1 mentorship sessions)
Access to Cardano community
Access to Seedstars network of mentors and investors
Opportunity to get short-track to Seedstars International Ventures Fund
Tech perks
Visibility package from FT Talent by Financial Times

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Prizes

Short-track to Seedstars International Ventures Fund
Participation in a 3-month Acceleration Program
Visibility package

Program Timeline

APPLICATIONS OPEN

5 April - 31 May 2022

REVIEW & SELECTION

1 June - 6 June 2022

CHALLENGE

20 June - 22 June

Team

About the Partners

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FT Talent

The FT Talent Challenge is a series of international events. FT Talent selects the most innovative and diverse individuals from thousands of international applicants for a multiple-day challenge experience, giving them a chance to understand and challenge the existing ecosystem and benefit from FT and partner expert insights alongside invited guests. The challenge helps foster new creative thinking, develop potential solutions to strategic business issues and stimulate disruption within the business ecosystem.

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Project Catalyst

Project Catalyst is a series of experiments that seeks to generate the highest levels of community innovation. Catalyst is bringing on-chain governance to the Cardano blockchain by allowing the community to self-determine priorities for growth. It also lets participants deploy funding to proposals that tackle challenges and capitalize on opportunities that arise in the life cycle of Cardano.

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Cardano

Cardano is built by a decentralized community of scientists, engineers, and thought leaders united in a common purpose: to create a technology platform that will ignite the positive change the world needs. We believe the future should not be defined by the past, and that more is possible - and, through technology, can be made possible for all. We measure the worth of a task not by its challenge, but by its results.

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Seedstars

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private company with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The group’s activities cover over 90 emerging ecosystems through a variety of initiatives such as the FTxSDG Challenge, previously known as the Seedstars World Competition, which is the largest entrepreneurship competition in emerging markets; Seedstars Programs that are designed to support entrepreneurs in varying stages of growth via training, education, mentoring, and access to resources; Seedstars 01, a talent incubator providing digital skills and startup-based immersive education for the next generation of changemakers; Seedspace, physical coworking spaces and hubs located in 15 countries; and Seedstars International, a global venture capital fund for seed-stage startups.

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