At the awards ceremony (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Tenoutstanding collectives and individuals were honoured as winners of the 2021 Ho Chi Minh City Innovation and Startup Awards (I-Star 2021) on December 14.
Held annually by themunicipal People’s Committee, the fourth edition of the awards attracted 310entries this year.
Star Global 3Dwas honoured as the best innovative start-up for its 3D/360 smart interactive web/applicensed by the US.
The website "Go shopping for people", 4.0 vocation orientation app JobWay and community-based traffic congestionwarning system UTraffic received the best innovative solution awards.
Meanwhile, pressworks on innovation and start-ups by Vietnam Television, the newswire of Radio the Voiceof Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam Investment Review also won the awards.
Nguyen Tat ThanhUniversity Innovation Incubator Centre, University of Economics Ho Chi MinhCity’s Institute of Innovation and Zone Start-ups Vietnam venture fund werehonoured for their active contributions to innovation and start-ups in Vietnam.
The same day, the municipal Departmentof Science and Technology wrapped up the Week for Ho Chi Minh City Innovation,Startup and Entrepreneurship (WHISE) which was held both online and offline, featuringover 20 events with the participation of 30 units in local start-up ecologicalsystem and over 6,000 visitors. As many as 99 start-up projects were introducedon digital platforms.
Director of the municipal Department of Scienceand Technology Nguyen Viet Dung said despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a record of 1.1billion USD in adventure investment was poured into 37 start-up deals in the city this year, accounting for 60percent of capital and 70 percent of deals of the country's total./.
