{"id":2733,"date":"2026-01-20T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/say-aspire-an-initiative-by-entrepreneurship-selangor-to-promote-youth-entrepreneurship\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:54:12","slug":"say-aspire-an-initiative-by-entrepreneurship-selangor-to-promote-youth-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/say-aspire-an-initiative-by-entrepreneurship-selangor-to-promote-youth-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"SAY Aspire &#8211; An Initiative by Entrepreneurship Selangor To Promote Youth Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Kuala Lumpur, 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2019: SAY Aspire which\u2019s an initiative by Entrepreneurship Selangor Under Selangor Youth Community in collaboration with Proficeo, Sunway Group and Menteri Besar (Incorporated) Selangor has conducted SAY ASPIRE PITCH@ISTANA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">SAY ASPIRE is an accelerated business development programme that aims to accelerate the growth of Selangor export ready companies led by youths, to penetrate the overseas market through business expansion and export strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The first of its kind in the country, Pitch@Istana is the final stage of pitching session in which 5 companies will be selected as winners. These winners will be receiving the benefits of access to the procurement teams, opportunity to pitch for investment, personalized coaching and mentorship by seasoned entrepreneurs and industrial experts and collaborative networking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pitch@Istana which was modelled after the Picth@Palace under the Duke of York was judged by His Highness The Crown Prince of Selangor, Tengku Amir Shah Ibni Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Alhaj, YM Raja Hamzah Abidin, Co-Managing Partner of RHL Ventures, YBhg Mr Fong Leong, Chief Operating Officer of Segi Value Holdings Sdn Bhd, YBrs Madam Anna Teoh who is the Malaysia\u2019s largest Musang King Exporter, YBrs Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah, Chief Angelist &amp; Master Coach of Proficeo, YBrs Puan Dzuleira Abu Bakar, Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre and YBrs Mr Amran Yem, Senior Director Transformation and Digital Trade Division of Malaysia External Trade Development Cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The five winners of SAY ASPIRE PITCH@ISTANA are NIQA, Palm Fiber, Potonguler, ILuvQuran and Citarasa Milennium.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, 27th\u00a0August 2019: SAY Aspire which\u2019s an initiative by Entrepreneurship Selangor Under Selangor Youth Community in collaboration with Proficeo, Sunway Group and Menteri Besar (Incorporated) Selangor has conducted SAY ASPIRE PITCH@ISTANA. SAY ASPIRE is an accelerated business development programme that aims to accelerate the growth of Selangor export ready companies led by youths, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}