Baku, June 5, AZERTAC

With the support of “Azercell Telecom” LLC and organization of Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, the local selection of the "Seedstars World" competition will be held on June 15-16.

The competition, which will take place for the 7th time in Azerbaijan, will help to identify talented young people in the emerging and rapidly growing startup market. Winner of the contest will represent Azerbaijan at “Seedstars CEE Regional Summit”, furthermore, with all costs being covered, will get a chance to attend the “Seedstars World” competition in Switzerland, striving for the title of “Seedstars Global Winner” and $500,000 investment.

Startups will be able to participate in the competition by applying to the address below until June 9: https://seedsta.rs/ssw19-baku 

After the deadline for submission of the applications, “Seedstars” team will select approximately 10 best startups to attend the training and meet face to face with investors.

“Seedstars” is looking for skilled start-ups aiming at solving the regional issues and developing profitable and sustainable products for the global market to support their regional business and development.

With the support of “Azercell Telecom” LLC and PASHA Bank, Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, which boosts development of IT projects and emerging startups as an independent company, has been the local organizer of the “Seedstars Baku” contest for 7 years.

For more information, please contact [email protected]  

The leader of the mobile communication industry, the largest taxpayer and the biggest investor of the non-oil sector of Azerbaijan “Azercell Telecom” LLC was founded in 1996. With 49 percent share of Azerbaijan’s mobile telecom market Azercell’s network covers 99.1 percent of the territory (excluding the occupied territories) and 99.8 percent of population of the country. Currently, 4.5 million subscribers choose Azercell services. Azercell has pioneered an important number of innovations in Azerbaijan, including GSM technology, advance payment system, mobile internet services, Metro coverage, 24/7 call center service (*1111), 7 day/week Front Office service, M2M services, one-stop-shopping approach Azercell Express offices, mobile customer services, Online Customer Care and Social Media Customer Care services, mobile e-signature service “ASAN Imza” etc. Azercell deployed first 4G - LTE services in Azerbaijan in 2012. According to the results of mobile network quality and wireless coverage mapping surveys by international systems, Azercell’s network demonstrated the best results among the mobile operators of Azerbaijan. Azercell is the only company in Azerbaijan and CIS region which has been awarded Gold Certificate of International “Investors in People” Standard.