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Home » Applications Open for Snowflake Startup Challenge 2022

Applications Open for Snowflake Startup Challenge 2022

Snowflake Startup Challenge brings together early-stage startups to build innovative applications and products powered by Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

Sponsoring Agency: Snowflake

Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes

Deadline Available: Available

Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/01/2022

Size of the Fund: USD $50,000 to $500,000

Snowflake Startup Challenge brings together early-stage startups to build innovative applications and products powered by Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

Designed to recognize the innovation of our startup community, the Snowflake Startup Challenge is where startups from around the world showcase the creative possibilities for building groundbreaking applications. The startups compete and the winner and finalists may receive up to $1 million in investments from Snowflake, along with global marketing exposure!

The Prizes
• Up To $500,000 Potential Investment
o Additional Marketing Opportunities (Plus Finalist Prize)
• Final 3
o Up To $250,000 Potential Investment In Each Of The Two Finalists
o Feature On Select Marketing Channels
o Present At Snowflake Summit & 2 Summit Passes (Plus Semifinalist Prize)
• 10 Semi Finalists
o Blog Featuring Your Application and Team

Eligible Startup
The Contest is only open to valid entities (each, a “Startup”) that: (a) if in the United States, are C corporations or LLCs, and if outside the United States, are equivalent entities in the jurisdictions that the Startups were formed and/or incorporated; and (b) are in good standing and in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, and ordinances (collectively “Laws”) in each jurisdiction in which they were formed and/or incorporated, and are operating and are permitted by the Laws of each such jurisdiction to enter and compete in this Contest. In addition, to be eligible to enter the Contest, the Startup must, as of the entry date and through the date the Winner is announced: (i) have raised no more than $5 million USD in cash funding; (ii) have not received any cash funding through the sale of equity securities of the Startup, including through a Series A or other priced round of funding; (iii) have not received any valuation as a result of an equity financing; and (iv) meet the additional requirements.

Ineligible Persons and Entities
The following persons and entities are not eligible to enter the Contest:
• individuals and sole proprietorships;
• entities organized or governed under the laws of: (i) Quebec, Israel, or Brazil; and (ii) Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria, or any country or territory that may, from time to time, become subject to U.S. export controls or designated as a country that is subject to a general prohibition on U.S. persons engaging in financial and/or export transactions, or entities on any restricted or prohibited party list maintained by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury;
• system integrators and professional services firms (collectively, “Managed Service Providers”), including subsidiaries of Managed Service Providers;
• employees of Snowflake, and Arista Networks and Sequoia Capital, and each of their respective directors, officers, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers, representatives, agents, immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each;
• entities that are managed or majority owned by individuals who: (i) are currently employed by Snowflake, or were employed as of October 4, 2021, or any of Snowflake’s direct or indirect wholly or majority owned subsidiary or affiliate companies; (ii) are immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, or children) or household members of any of the employees or former employees (e)(i); (iii) are a Contest Judge (defined in Section 9 below) or immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, or children) or household members of a Contest Judge; (iv) are current employees of an entity in which Sponsor, Arista Networks, or Sequoia Capital has invested and holds an ownership interest; (v) are professionally involved in the development or administration of the Contest; (vi) are on any restricted or prohibited party list maintained by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury; or (viii) are residents of, or domiciled in:
o Quebec, Israel, or Brazil;
o any country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating in a contest or receiving a prize in the Contest or a country where a prize cannot be awarded;
o Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria; or
o any country or territory that may, from time to time, become subject to U.S. export controls or designated as a country that is subject to a general prohibition on U.S. persons engaging in financial and/or export transactions.

What’s required?
• Build an application that is dependent on Snowflake as a core part of its architecture
• Submit a demo video (up to five minutes) and a description of your application before the deadline
• Semifinalists will be required to submit an investor pitch video recording (up to five minutes) and provide access to their application
• Be an entity with less than $5 million dollars in cash funding and have not received any cash funding through the sale of equity securities, including through a Series A or other priced round of funding.

More information at: https://www.snowflake.com/startupchallenge/

Eligible Countries:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard and McDonald Islands, Holy See, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, State of, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Minor Outlying Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Åland Islands

Business Categories:
ICT, Startups

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