Registration for TOP100 is now open and we are looking forward to seeing your startup on the list!
TOP100 Program gives you the one golden chance to connect with hundreds of investors, showcase your startup at Echelon, pitch on the TOP100 stage, and access special programs. Find out what’s new in TOP100 and join here: https://bit.ly/TOP100_2023
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Now that Echelon Asia Summit is coming back in full swing, e27 is determined to make one of its key features, the TOP100, one of the best yet!
The TOP100 program is an annual initiative organised by e27 to showcase and recognise the most promising startups in the Asia-Pacific region.
The program is open to exciting new startups from the Asia-Pacific region with innovative ideas that break barriers across different industries. The selection of the TOP100 involves a rigorous screening process, including an evaluation of the startup’s product or service, team, market potential, and traction.
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The selected startups are given the opportunity to pitch their business ideas at the Echelon Asia Summit this June 14-15, 2023, at the Singapore Expo. The program also provides exposure to investors, mentors, and potential partners, enabling growth among participating startups and helping them expand their networks across the larger global tech ecosystem.
The TOP100 program has become one of the most prestigious startup competitions in the region, attracting thousands of applicants each year and providing valuable visibility and support to the most promising startups in the region.
15 startups closer to competing at this year’s TOP100
Being a frontrunner refers to startups close to making it to this year’s TOP100 program.
With all the amazing startups sprouting across the Asia-Pacific region’s vibrant tech startup ecosystem, we now present you with 15 frontrunners closer to competing at this year’s TOP100. Get to know them here!
Fraxtor
Fraxtor is a real estate tokenisation platform that provides bite-sized access to global real estate investment opportunities.
The Fraxtor digital platform bridges investors and real estate investment opportunities originated by private equity managers and small to mid-sized property developers. They promote financial inclusion by enabling investors’ easy access to investments with a digital platform and by lowering capital outlay.
Private equity funds and developers can similarly leverage Fraxtor’s digital platform as an alternative avenue to raise funds from a pool of accredited investors in an efficient manner. To date, Fraxtor has tokenised real estate assets worth more than US$250 million in Singapore, Australia, and the UK.
treasure
treatsure is a Singapore-based startup tackling the problem of food wastage through its innovative technological solutions. Its flagship product is a mobile platform connecting businesses such as hotels and grocers with surplus food to consumers to tackle food wastage. With treatsure, users can purchase a takeaway buffet-in-a-box from $10 or surplus groceries up to 80% off.
In 2018, it created Asia-Pacific’s first takeaway buffet-in-a-box concept in collaboration with global hotel brands. In 2019 and 2020, treatsure also ventured into surplus and sustainable groceries respectively. In 2021, it started an offline concept store. The company also offers educational experiences and collaborates with corporate and governmental partners to drive sustainability lifestyle awareness and adoption.
ALGOGENE FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
ALGOGENE is the next-generation investment platform that enables users to engage in algorithmic trading through a seamless process of learning, developing, testing, executing, and investing in automated trading bots. The platform is supported by patents, ensuring top-level security for users.
Through ALGOGENE’s patents-backed web platform, you can easily create any algo-strategies, and connect to multiple brokers/exchanges for live trading. ALGOGENE boasts a thriving trading community that users can leverage to expand their trading knowledge. Users can follow and learn from successful traders and even copy their winning strategies into their own portfolios. ALGOGENE thus provides a comprehensive and dynamic platform for users to develop their algorithmic trading skills and grow their investment portfolios.
NodeFlair – Tech Career SuperApp
NodeFlair is a Tech Career SuperApp. Specifically designed for Tech talents, it is one place for job discovery, job researching, job securing, career uplifting, and more. They provide a Career Transparency platform with verified career data such as salaries, culture, benefits, and more. Our mission is to help Tech Talents make better career decisions. For Companies: we help hire top-tier Tech Talents across APAC.
NodeFlair aims to create a world where developers can code where they love. They strive to provide valuable resources that help technology talents in Asia make smarter career decisions. By doing so, they hope to create a more informed and empowered workforce that can thrive in their chosen fields.
Furthermore, NodeFlair is not only beneficial for tech talents but also for companies seeking top-tier technology talents across the Asia-Pacific region. The platform helps connect companies with qualified candidates, making the hiring process more efficient and effective.
ACKTEC Technologies
ACKTEC’s vision is to provide an environment for all learners to nurture the spirit of learning and the spirit of excellence. The company’s mission is to develop in all its students the passion to learn and the confidence to become self-directed.
With the vision of automating knowledge through technology, ACKTEC aims to create a vibrant and innovative community that provides professional development for all educators, trainers, and teachers to ensure high-quality learning for all levels. The company has developed KiQs, an educational platform for early childhood.
The KIQS Learning App is now available on the Google Play Store.
DIFISOFT Viet Nam JSC
Difisoft Viet Nam JSC (Digital Finance Software) is a rapidly growing fintech company that was established in 2018. Their core focus is on creating cutting-edge financial solutions and content for major financial institutions in Vietnam. They have been successful in partnering with some of the leading financial institutions in the country, including VCSC, KIS Vietnam, KB Securities Vietnam, Mirae Asset Securities Vietnam, and KB Fina.
Difisoft’s expertise in the financial IT sector, coupled with its technological advancements, has enabled them to create innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of these institutions. As a result, they have established a reputation as a reliable and forward-thinking fintech company in the Vietnamese market. They are currently working on the development of a community-based investing platform that will enable more retail investors to access financial products and services.
Jagofon Pte Ltd
New smartphones are way too expensive in Indonesia — up to 6 times the local monthly salary and second-hand smartphones are not to be trusted: at least 20% are illegally imported, stolen, or counterfeited, more than 30% suffer from quality issues, and there is no warranty or guarantees.
Jagofon is Indonesia’s most trusted marketplace specialising in second-hand smartphones with stringent quality control. All of Jagofon’s smartphones are extensively tested, 100% functional, and guaranteed.
LEAN Social
As Asian students, we’ve long tolerated the traditional education experience. Rote learning, Disorientation, Societal Pressure, we have been through it all. Introducing: LEAN Social: a virtual study and workspace that helps GenZ feel less lonely and more motivated to be productive.
LEAN Social offers a study-streaming ecosystem with a practical incentive system that aims to promote self-directed learning. Utilising machine learning, the platform tracks and converts students’ learning time into tokens, which can be exchanged for gift vouchers (short-term incentives) or educational experiences like placement in Bootcamps or MOOCs (long-term incentives).
DashoContent
400 million small and medium businesses suffer from current options for content creation because they are expensive in time, resources, and energy. On the other hand, purely automated AI content is rarely on par with that of a human and ends up penalised by search engines.
DashoContent is an on-demand platform that helps you create consistent and quality content for businesses. Through a mediation platform with powerful AI-assistive tools, they combine the benefits of automation and handcrafted content through vetted expert content creators.
BGN
BGN is creating the next wave of community-owned Global Brands through DAOs. The company is helping blue-chip brands get up to speed with franchise readiness by improving access to the community, capital, and valuable supporting protocols that power franchises from operations, to talent management, to financing needs.
BGN operates on three philosophies. Shared Vision: Bonding brand owners, operators, staff and customers through a common vision. Equitable Governance: Making joint decisions on operational directives and optimising localisation efforts. Fair franchise pricing: Brand growth is market-driven, keeping expansion in tandem with market demand.
Qalboo
In Southeast Asia, conversations around mental health still carry a negative stigma. This is especially apparent in religious communities, as there’s a common belief that poor mental health equates to weak faith. For Muslims, the intersection goes much deeper. There are Islamic laws that aren’t aligned with modern techniques, making it harder for Muslims to seek help, let alone speak openly about it.
Qalboo is changing this narrative. The Islamic well-being app is faith-based — providing Muslims with evidence-based solutions that are integrated with Islamic values from the Quran and Sunnah, making the link between faith and well-being into actionable and easy-to-follow solutions.
EkkBaz
EkkBaz is an innovative and dynamic B2B marketplace that connects small businesses in the agriculture and food industries across developing countries in Asia, available in Bangladesh, Singapore, and expanding. The platform leverages cutting-edge technologies and data-driven financing solutions to help small businesses grow and thrive in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
With a commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility, EkkBaz is creating a supportive and collaborative ecosystem that empowers small businesses to reach their full potential. By facilitating connections between suppliers, buyers, and other service providers, EkkBaz streamlines the supply chain and makes it more efficient.
Kamilas4am Inc
Helping business owners scale their short-video content. Kamilas4am is connecting business owners and marketers who need short-video content with UGC creators — the next evolution of Influencer Marketing.
Unlike influencers who are leveraging their following, UGC creators are leveraging their capacity to create studio-quality and ready-to-post video content from home. Business owners use these short videos in their everyday posting on social media (eg Tiktok, IG reels, Youtube shorts) and in their social media ads.
Kamilas4am’s mission is to make social media marketing so easy and accessible that even a grandma can build a successful online business today.
BioMark
Biomark is owned by Texas Pacific Group (TPG), one of the largest global private equity firms, with business presence/entities/subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Australia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Their combined businesses result in seeing an annual flow of 10-11 million patients per year.
Regionally, BioMark is used across over 6,500 clinics and 63 hospitals, storing more than 24 million patient records. Their core business model is centred around being the conduit between laboratories, doctors, and patients. Broadly speaking, BioMark ingests blood and pathology reports and displays them to doctors and patients through their platforms. Clinics and healthcare providers (HCPs i.e. doctors and nurses) using their platform can effectively monitor their patients’ well-being, flag patients who need follow-up consultations (and follow-up tests), and order pathology tests and also medications. Patients using their platform are able to better make sense of their lab results, and monitor the progress of their health.
SECHA
Aiming to ease secondary home purchases, SECHA provides home improvement solutions to help buyers get qualified and move-in-ready houses at no extra cost for renovation. SECHA exists to help homeowners sell houses at market price without renovation cost cuts and agents to generate leads. Their platform helps close deals faster, enabling home buyers to get their dream homes hassle-free.
SECHA’s platform equips agents with the tools that have been proven to increase buyers’ intention to purchase by 35% through their platform consisting of a Shareable Digital Catalogue, Auto-Generated Digital Proposal, and House Unit 3D Viewing.
A step closer to the 2023 TOP100
After a rigorous screening process, these startups are a step closer to qualifying for this year’s TOP100.
If you are one of the founders of the startups above, a representative from e27 will be reaching out to you soon to discuss with you the next step in your application process. Feel free to get in touch with us for any inquiries.
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If you have an exciting startup with innovative ideas that can eclipse the best and the brightest in the region, join the 2023 TOP100 and stand a chance to pitch your ideas to some of the top investors in the Asia-Pacific at this year’s Echelon Asia Summit. Register for TOP100 here.
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