Today, in order for startups to thrive, it is imperative that they leverage all the right tools and support. Innovations have to be tested and developed, ideas require mentorship and guidance, and startup founders and tech entrepreneurs have to be exposed to the right kind of network of top investors and VCs who can open up unique opportunities.
In order to outpace, outthink, and outcompete the flock, HPE is now looking for digital startups with proven B2B Enterprise Solutions to join Fast Forward with HPE!, with the goal to seek, nurture, and propel high-value startups to create deeper market impact and exponentially expand their capabilities and capacity.
Fast Forward with HPE! — envisioning and reimagining the future together
Every day, HPE empowers organisations to forge confidently ahead into tomorrow. But HPE does not do it alone.
Through synergy with groups of entrepreneurs, leading technology vendors, industry leaders and experts, this plethora of complementing expertise, technology, and ideas amalgamate into a powerful solution that solves the diverse and dynamic nature of today and tomorrow’s Problems.
Fast Forward with HPE! is a unique programme in which HPE becomes a partner and dedicates its resources to accelerate a startup’s product development, create and execute industrial collaborative opportunities, and develop business strategies for growth and expansion to bring the startup to global prominence. This programme is consistent with HPE’s mission of helping organisations maximise the latest innovations, turn dreams and ambitions into reality, and empower teams to revolutionise industries and markets.
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Through years of working with startups from a myriad of specialities and backgrounds, HPE understands the torrent of difficulties that startups will face. Through it all, HPE is determined to walk the path of hardship with them.
HPE intends to gather the best minds in the world to tackle some of the region’s most defining challenges and craft a once-in-a-life-time experience with 5 recently funded digital startups to catalyse a paradigm shift in the manufacturing, financial, healthcare, communications, and infrastructure sectors.
The programme is fixed-term and cohort-based and the wining startup can look forward to the following:
1. Free use of resources to test and develop their products
2. Continuous mentorship support and connection to top investors and VCs to pave your way to success.
3. Full-year regional marketing support from HPE to create and execute GTM plans
4. This programme also offers opportunities to learn from corporates such as HPE, VMware, Equinix, Economist, IDC, and successful predecessors like Tookitaki, Ninja Van, Netflix, Dropbox, Logitravel, and Gojek.
Not only that, but HPE will also be gathering a panel of customers with multiple needs to meet for a pitching session by the Startups.
Three key stages of the programme
From now to 7 May, interested participants can submit their online application form complete with all the required documents. This will ensure that the vetting process will allow HPE a full 360-degree view of where the startups are in their journeys and what forms of support the company may render.
Next, applications will undergo a thorough technical evaluation and review by leading tech vendors where participants will be contacted before 14 May.
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Lastly, the top 20 finalists will be interviewed by the HPE Management team and ultimately, the top 5-10 startups will be presenting to HPE’s panel of Customers, who has a high propensity to purchase innovative solutions, for the chance to be selected as an HPE Exclusive business partner!
From the garage and to the stars — fast forward the world now
Eighty years ago, the founders of Hewlett Packard (HP) started the company from humble beginnings in a rented Palo Alto garage and turned it into a global leader in enterprise technology.
Now as Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), we continue to change the world by harnessing the bleeding edge in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Ad Astra — to the stars through hardships
We understand the hardship, grind, and tears of keeping the dream alive with uncertainties and calamities sprout behind every turn and corner.
But HPE is here to work with entrepreneurs and unleash their zeal, passion, and intellect on an unsuspecting world.
If you want to join the big family and show your idea to the World, then Fast Forward with HPE! is for you.
You can register by completing the form with all required documents (company profile, management team, product pitch, target audience, business model, and competitive advantage) by 7 May.
Let the world Fast Forward with HPE!
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