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Asean Startup Awards
ASEAN Startup Awards is an annual competition recognizing innovative startups across the ASEAN region, connecting them to a global ecosystem of experts, investors, and media.
Overview
What Asean Startup Awards does
What Asean Startup Awards is
ASEAN Startup Awards is an annual competition recognizing innovative startups across the ASEAN region, connecting them to a global ecosystem of experts, investors, and media.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports event host capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Event Organizer
- Structured capabilities
- Event host
- Last reviewed
- April 2, 2026
Official channels
Find Asean Startup Awards elsewhere
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Capability profile
Asean Startup Awards as an event host
Event focus
The ASEAN Startup Awards is a regional competition that aims to connect, empower, and create opportunities for startups across Southeast Asia. It covers ten countries: Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The initiative seeks to identify local industry innovators and connect them to the global startup ecosystem, facilitating their international expansion. The organization emphasizes the validation of local innovative ideas on a global scale and aims to foster cooperation among stakeholders in the startup ecosystem.
Format narrative
The ASEAN Startup Awards operates through a structured competition process that includes public nominations, shortlisting, public voting, and jury ranking to determine regional winners. The awards process is designed to highlight the best startups and entrepreneurs in the region.
Participant value
The ASEAN Startup Awards recognizes talents within the global startup ecosystem and aims to highlight the best startups and entrepreneurs in the region, facilitating their international expansion.
Format and cadence
- Event types
- awards-ceremony
- Recurrence
- annual
- Startups can present
- No
Availability
- Registration state
- Not currently accepting
Audience and fit
- Selection criteria
- open
- Audience
- Founders · Investors
- Regions
- Southeast Asia
Common questions
What to know about Asean Startup Awards
Upseed classifies Asean Startup Awards under the Event Organizer organization type. Its current public profile includes event host capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 2, 2026
Known limits
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