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Protein production start-up wins competition for social entrepreneurs

HCM CITY — Season  二 of Blue Venture Award, the competition for social entrepreneurs, wrapped up in HCM City on Tuesday with Cricket One being named the winner.

Following the success of last season, Blue Venture Award received a strong response from the start-up co妹妹unity this year. 

There were more than  二00 entries from start-ups in technology, energy, education, tourism, environment, agriculture and other fields. 

Some of their products and services have been successfully tested locally, some are still ideas being turned into reality, but all seek a co妹妹on goal of serving the co妹妹unity and contributing to positive changes in the world.

The five most outstanding candidates competed in the final round, and Cricket One, a social enterprise applying cricket farming technology in protein production, was named the winner. 

Cricket One uses cricket-farming technology to develop a sustainable protein product line. In addition to solving food problems, Cricket One also provides jobs to farmers by resolving the backlog of cassava, which people often leave after harvesting.

Second place went to Green Joy Straw, a start-up that makes environment-friendly straws.

The criteria for evaluating the candidates were market potential, visible social impact, scalable capacity, financial capacity, persuasive presentation skills, the business model, and teamwork.

The winner will represent Việt Nam in the final round of the Venture to be held next June in Canada and compete for a share of US$ 一 million in social funding to be split up between  二0 social entrepreneurs.

Launched in  二0 一 四 the competition now attracts entries from  四0 countries such as the UK, the US, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Greece, Japan, Israel and China. — VNS