TIER 1
SEED
Idea validation
- ₩2M activity stipend
- 2 onboarding mentoring sessions
- Free AI tool trials
Promotion milestones · Problem statement + 5 customer interviews
A winter-break league for university teams. Teams only.
For university teams of two or more. Six weeks of intensive mentoring aimed at SPARK-tier milestones.
Tech
Tech products
Lifestyle
Consumer goods, content and services
Yes. Individuals join as a one-person team and can invite teammates later.
Yes. Tiers and season scores belong to your team, so they carry across competitions.
You keep your tier and can resubmit improved evidence as many times as you like.
Tier system
TIER 1
SEED
Idea validation
Promotion milestones · Problem statement + 5 customer interviews
TIER 2
SPARK
Prototype
Promotion milestones · Prototype demo video + 10 user interviews + Key metric definition + Attend 3 mentoring sessions
TIER 3
BUILD
Commercialize
Promotion milestones · First revenue or LOI + Incorporation + 3-month metrics report + Investor deck + Metric verification (staff diligence)
TIER 4
GraduateLAUNCH
Invest & scale
Reach it to graduate · Hall of Fame
Yes. Tiers and season scores belong to your team, so they carry across competitions.