After months of submissions and hundreds of applications, we’re happy to share with you these 10 startups who will be pitching their innovative solutions at the SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards Virtual Pitch on 13 April 2023.
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The 2023 SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards has been launched to find, fund, and support innovative tech solutions that can help protect and save lives, before, during, and after disasters. The program is created by Prudence Foundation and supported by humanitarian partner: IFRC, technology partner: AWS, and strategic partner: e27, for its 2023 edition.
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The SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards recognises the crucial role of technology in enhancing disaster preparedness, recovery, and resilience. Climate change has led to more frequent and intense disasters worldwide, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, where half of these events occur, resulting in staggering economic costs and human lives lost. Despite the pressing need for solutions, financial and non-financial support is lacking, hindering their potential for maximum impact.
Now in its third edition, the Awards looks to continue its work in catalysing a network of support, raising awareness of the sector, and helping the remarkable companies that operate in this space grow and scale.
10 more startups that will be taking part in the Virtual Pitch
ESASTHO
ESASTHO is a healthtech startup that bridges online and offline, paper-based solutions already established in the regular healthcare system. As a healthtech startup, ESASTHO creates several sequential channels like telemedicine, online hospital booking service, online pathology and virtual pharmacy, and emergency ambulance services.
ESASTHO’s solution ranges from remote medical consultations where they provide patients access to healthcare professionals and alleviate the burden on local healthcare facilities, partnering with local organisations involved in disaster response efforts, conducting health awareness campaigns during disasters where they provide accurate and reliable information on how to stay safe and healthy during a disaster, as well as emergency services during a disaster such as doctor consultations, medicine supply, pathology sample collection, and ambulance service, among others
Doh Eain
Doh Eain preserves heritage, improves public spaces, and organises activities that connect people with places, employing a user-centred, participatory approach. In doing this, Doh Eain aims to inspire and enable people to participate in reshaping their city while retaining cultural heritage.
Doh Eain set up the Yangon Neighbourhood Network (YNN) with the goal of creating a mechanism that would support the many neighbourhood-based informal and semi-formal groups undertaking relief and resilience activities that save lives during disasters. The platform improves the quality and accountability of these neighbourhood actors’ activities while making them more visible and easier to support for large donors.
NatureMetrics
NatureMetrics is a world leader in delivering nature data and intelligence. They use cutting-edge technology to generate biodiversity data at scale using environmental DNA. They make biodiversity measurable and support businesses to transition to a nature-positive economy by providing the data with which to drive good decisions for business and nature. The company’s mission is to transform the scale, comprehensiveness, and accessibility of biodiversity data around the world, creating a comprehensive database of life on earth which will help the world identify how best to protect it.
NatureMetrics aims to deliver comprehensive, actionable biodiversity data, from sample to biologically meaningful insight within 72 hours, compared to at least 8 weeks for conventional monitoring. This will enable rapid, robust evidence-based decision-making, minimising environmental damage, and protecting biodiversity. Critically, this will provide decision-makers with the data they need to use nature-based solutions to tackle the effects of climate change and extreme weather events.
Komunidad
Underscoring that the call by the UN Secretary-General on Early Warning for All needs to be made a reality to further save lives, livelihoods, and assets, Komunidad developed the Climate Operations Center (COC) — a web-based application that helps monitor and anticipate the risk of severe weather and other natural disasters with simple and easy to understand decision support tools such as online dashboards, automated reports, and early warning alerts.
Komunidad is a climate data and analytics software company providing digital transformation and decision support tools for climate resilience and sustainability. We help governments and enterprises harness the power of data and analytics to manage climate risk and optimise for the low carbon future.
Kinetic Analysis Corporation
Kinetic Analysis Corporation specialises in the generation and delivery of a multi-model view of hazards, damage, and impact data for tropical cyclones and other extreme perils occurring anywhere in the world. This information can provide crucial insights into the potential impacts from a peril and support planning and response perspective.
KinetiCast by Kinetic Analysis Corporation is a web app that helps you develop scenarios of what might happen so you can respond to what does happen. With a multi-model approach to generating high-resolution (~2 km) geospatial hazard footprints and economic impact estimates in near real-time, you will be able to develop scenarios and contingency plans and execute the optimal response as conditions evolve.
Maxi
Maxi is a mental health startup that leverages artificial intelligence to provide hyper-personalised care for mental health. The platform is designed to match users with the best-suited resources to address their specific needs. The Maxi platform utilises machine learning algorithms to analyse user behaviour, preferences, and other data points to create a personalised experience. Users are matched with various resources, including mental health professionals, audio exercises, self-screening tests, and discussion forums.
Disasters have a significant impact on mental health, and Maxi’s personalised approach can help disaster victims cope with their challenges. Maxi can provide disaster victims with resources tailored to their specific needs. For example, someone experiencing anxiety during a natural disaster can be matched with audio exercises and relaxation techniques to help them manage their symptoms. The platform can also connect users with mental health professionals specialising in disaster-related trauma and provide them with the support they need.
Solvation Analytics
Solvation Analytics is a Malaysian green tech company dedicated to developing sustainable energy solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. Our team of experts works with clients to create customised strategies that optimize energy consumption, reduce waste, and improve efficiency.
The company has developed a hazard mapping technology that provides early warnings to affected communities to protect the most vulnerable members of society during disasters such as children, disabled individuals, and pregnant women. Their solution incorporates cutting-edge AI and machine learning models to process satellite data, IoT data, and social media listening, generating visualisations and warnings to disaster-affected communities. This critical information is disseminated to emergency response teams, who share regular updates with communities. Their alerts are also broadcasted based on proximity to cell towers, ensuring the fastest possible response times.
DayZero Water LLC
DayZero Water LLC is a group of engineers, scientists, business professionals and even a philosophy professor working to address a disaster response need: safe drinking water. Often, cholera or other diseases follow disasters — such as in Malawi and Mozambique, following Cyclone Freddy. These diseases are easily prevented by DayZero Water’s product, the water box.
The water box is a household water treatment device using UV that quickly treats a 4-litre batch of water, whether electricity is available or not. It’s a batch process. This is important since people are often without running water after a disaster.
USHER
USHER is the most advanced earthquake and structural health monitoring system that ensures the integrity and resilience of infrastructures before, during, and after a seismic event.
IronYun
IronYun’s SIA award-winning Vaidio AI Vision Platform offers more than 30 advanced AI video analytics that works with any IP camera. AI vision analytics are deployed in many industries including smart cities, manufacturing 4.0, smart retail, building automation, public transportation, stadiums, and international airports.
Vaidio can search, monitor, alert, and analyze video with twenty AI-enabled video analytics on a single platform. Vaidio detects and alerts on objects, vehicles, behaviours and conditions with market-leading speed and accuracy. Vaidio adds layers of superhuman intelligence to existing camera and video infrastructure to deliver safety, security, and operational efficiencies. Vaidio next-gen AI delivers faster processing, faster alerting, and more analytics per stream using fewer resources than alternatives, which lowers overall solution costs.
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The 2023 SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards
The startups taking part in the 2023 SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards Virtual Pitch stand a chance to win 150,000 USD in cash prizes, AWS product credit worth 55,000 USD, and access to investor networks and mentorship. Finalists will be able to showcase at the Echelon Asia Summit 2023 at the Singapore EXPO on 14-15 June 2023.
Catch these amazing startups and more at the 2023 SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards virtual pitch! For more information, visit the official page here.
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