Lit 🧧🔥
Look mum, your son and his magnificent tribe of intergalactic super surfers are absolutely LIT 🏄🏻♂️🔥🔥🔥
But no need to call the fire brigade, it's only a metaphor 🙅🏻♂️👨🏻🚒
We achieved SECOND PLACE in Huawei's Global Spark Ignite Competition!!!🥈🥳🍾🎉
Making it past 1,500 other #startups to the Top 15 to secure a spot on the virtual stage yesterday 🎥
Connecting in half way around the world from #Amsterdam 🇳🇱
To the audience and judges at the physical event in the iconic Marina Bay Sands, #Singapore 🇸🇬
Showtime 🎬
And just like that after 10 minutes it was all over 🎭
Despite doing loads of these, I always do get a bit nervous, as was definitely the case here 😬
Guess that means I'm only human 🙃
After a further anxious 20 minutes of the judges deliberation 👩🏻⚖️
I gathered all of the Surfly office dwellers around our lunch table and made the award ceremony come to live despite the remoteness 💻
All the winners started to be announced 🙈
From 15-10th place are...
From 10-5th place are...
“2ND PLACE GOES TO SURFLY!!”
This one came as quite a surprise...
A big reason it surprised me is because all of the presentations at the grande finale were just so damn shiok (Singlish for awesome!)🤩
Many inspirational founders with amazing solutions and teams, solving some real global problems 🌏
CONGRATS to SafeTruck for taking 1st place, with their cool AI-driven fleet-tech - wish you all the best at #Slingshot2022 ✌🏼
BIG round of applause to the other awesome runners ups too: Regtank Technology , Handprint and Wela School Systems 👏🏼
I pitched our #InteractionMiddleware which also helped us win the #Next20 at TM Forum's Digital Transformation World a couple weeks ago 🏆
A superpower empowering brands to quickly create magical new experiences, layered on top of their existing applications - enabling complete control to: Share, Audit, Record or Modify any online journey 🪄
BIG BIG THANK YOU to the judges Eunice Wong, Yinglan Tan, Irene Guo, Fang Yong FOO, Ashley Fernandez, Leo, Nuo Jiang 🙏🏼
MASSIVE APPRECIATION to Alexis Lee, Llewellan Vance, Meryl Lim, Johannes Jaeger and the whole Huawei Singapore and Agorize Crew for your outstanding support and organisation throughout 🙌🏼
THE PRIZE = $80,000 in Cloud Credits, $5,000 in a grant and admission to Spark Fire, Spark Accelerate and Spark Go-China 🧧
Beyond this, is of course the ability to partner and grow together with respected brands like Huawei and others in the ecosystem 😎
We have laid our foundations in #Asia with great customers/partners in India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore 🌏
This will no doubt be some extra rocket fuel 🚀
With all this momentum, to say I am excited for what the future for Surfly holds is a massive understatement....
Who wants a seat on this rocketship?
As Sheryl Sandberg once said: "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on"
BONUS: Here’s a cool Chinese hip-hop song called Lit from rapper Lay Zhang that carry’s a lot of oomphhh
