As a Startup acceleration partner, you will receive: 

• 30 tickets.
• 20 startup packages.
• Pre-event startup bootcamp.
• Region logo splash.
• Newsletter mention.
• Partner meeting room feature.
• A region profile on the event mobile and web apps.
• Access to the ‘Connection tool’ on the app.
• Collision website branding.
• Logo featured on startup profiles
• Direct link on startup profile to parent organisation
• Portfolio startups listed in parent organisation profile

Below, please see the key deadlines and forms you need to be aware of to help maximise your Collision experience.

Key deadlines

• March 26th: This is the deadline for partners to confirm the attendance of all startups. Startups must share company details via the startups information form provided by your partner success manager.
• April 2nd: If you are announcing news at Collision, please submit a press release for review.
• April 16th: Assign your allocated tickets to all attendees by this date to ensure they don’t miss out on our newsletter highlighting features or information on the event.  Once you have a ticket assigned, download the Collision mobile app from the App Store or Google Play store to access your ticket.

Key form

Partner comms form: Please complete the following form as soon as possible, so that we can feature your company’s profile on the Collision website, and the web and mobile apps. 

What’s included in your startup package:

• Three event tickets for each attending startup.
• Company branding on the Collision website.
• Access to: 
  • Mentor Hours
  • Investor Meetings
  • Startup masterclasses
• Opportunity to apply for PITCH startups competition, applications close March 26. 
• Use of the event app, which combines your schedule, your contact network, and an info hub.
• Access to all event channels and 100+ hours of live-streamed content.
• A dedicated startup success manager to help manage your event experience.

The criteria for exhibiting startups:

• Must be less than five years old.
• Must have a unique software product or solution, or be working on their own connected hardware devices.
• Must be an independent company and not a subsidiary of a larger organisation.
• Must be launched and ‘live’, with a working website.
• Must have a logo available in .eps or vector format.
• Consultancies, agencies, developers, marketing/advertising agencies, and public companies will not be accepted.
• Startups applying to exhibit at Collision as part of a delegate package cannot already be registered at the event, and are not qualified as startups if they have raised more than US$3 million in funding.

Partners with unsuccessful startup applications will be given the opportunity to find replacements within a timeline agreed with their dedicated partner success manager.

If a partner still has any unused startup packages by March 26th, these will each be exchanged for three general attendee tickets.

Each startup’s dedicated startup success manager will share the relevant information with them. However, if you would like to see what’s involved, or would like to circulate this with your startups in advance, there is more information listed below.

PITCH

PITCH is Collision’s startup competition, highlighting the world’s most promising startups in a pitching battle. The deadline for PITCH application submissions is March 26.

• Pitch info pack
• Application page

40 words

40 words puts startups front and centre to answer the most pressing questions about their business. It’s where founders get to introduce their company, reveal their unpopular opinion, or tell us why they’re ready to take off – all in just 40 words.

• What to record
• FAQ guide
• Application page

Mentor Hours

Mentor Hours is a series of pre-scheduled, hour-long group meetings between our high-level attendees and selected startups. Mentor Hours have four distinct tracks: lead, engage, build and grow. Each track has a specific focus and carefully selected mentors to ensure the issues discussed are relevant for the startups. Each startup will receive a link to apply from their startup success manager.

Startup sessions

Startup Sessions take place in the run-up to Collision. These digital webinars run for 45 minutes, and are hosted by business experts and leaders in the tech industry. The format of each session is a 30-minute interactive discussion followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Startups will receive an invitation to join Startup Sessions from their startup success managers. The upcoming sessions can be found here. 

Startup masterclasses

Startup masterclasses at Collision focus on different growth paths, discussing everything from the corporate innovation explosion to the ‘must-knows’ of GDPR and the best ways to secure funding. Startup masterclasses run throughout Collision. All participating startups will receive a signup link from their startup success manager.

Investor Meetings

Investor Meetings is a series of pre-scheduled,15-minute meetings between the biggest investors in tech and the leading startups attending Collision. Startups are automatically added to our investor meetings portal. This is where our attending investors view our startup profiles and select the startups they would most like to meet. If selected, the startup will be contacted by their startup success manager.

A partner meeting room is a public or private meeting room for partners to talk to multiple attendees simultaneously about their products and services. If the room is public it will appear on your partner profile. If it’s set to private you can simply reach out to attendees via chat to share the room link. It is a great way to reach a group of attendees in an informal setting. 

We encourage you to use the meeting room as an opportunity to host product demos, engage with startups, organise open discussions on hot topics and simply as a large meeting room

Your logo, room title and a description of what the room is being used for are included to encourage attendees to join the discussion. 

Each partner meeting room can have 1-16 active participants with video and audio access.

Featured attendees can create their partner meeting room from their partner profile on the web app. There is a limit of one partner meeting room per partner.

What can a partner room be used for?

• Large meeting room.
• Organise demos; you can share the link to your room with attendees while networking on the platform. 
• Coaching and advising startups on numerous business topics. 
• Organising open discussions on various business topics.