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The judge of the contest includes shareholders or leaders of leading businesses such as Golden Gate Ventures and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, along with startup experts.

The final round of NTT Com Startup Challenge, a contest for Vietnamese startups, will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 22.

Apart from a prize worth 10,000 USD, free Japanese trips and access to ICT infrastructure of NTT Com will be offered to winners.

Vietnam is the third destination of NTT Com Startup Challenge in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia and Malaysia.

Through the contest, NTT Com wants to help startups access investors and infrastructure of the group, thus contributing to the development of startup ecosystem in Asia and in Vietnam in particular.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) is a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation of Japan. It provides network management, security and solution services.

In 2017, NTT Com generated 106.5 trillion USD in revenue, ranking fifth in Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies.

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Source: VNA