CIP Spark
Funds early Malaysian startups creating minimum-viable products from market trials.
CIP Spark is a pre-seed conditional development grant administered by Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian government-backed agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) that has funded over 1,000 Malaysian tech startups since 2003. The program funds technology-based and innovative ideas through to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage and is one of two headline grant products …
Technology-based and innovative product development by Malaysian early-stage startups and entrepreneur teams, from concept through Minimum Viable Product stage.
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