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The first 15 startups that made it to this year’s TOP100

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The TOP100 program is an annual project spearheaded by e27 with the goal of recognising the most promising and innovative startups in the Southeast Asian region and beyond. The program is a highly anticipated event that provides a platform for exciting new startups to showcase their ideas, gain exposure to investors and potential partners, and receive valuable feedback from industry experts.

Through the TOP100 program, startups have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges comprised of investors, corporates, and industry giants. The judges evaluate each startup based on various criteria, including innovation, market potential, team strength, and overall execution.

Winning the TOP100 program can have a significant impact on a startup’s growth trajectory. The program has helped many startups secure funding, gain media attention, and expand their customer base in the regional market.

With its rigorous selection process, 100 startups get to pitch their products and services at the Echelon Asia Summit slated on June 14-15 at the Singapore EXPO. Top contenders will proceed to the finals where winners will be selected.

Without further ado, here are the first 15 startups that will be competing at this year’s TOP100!

The first 15 semifinalists for the 2023 TOP100 

myFirst

TOP100

myFirst is the world’s first KidsTech ecosystem that has safely and securely connected over 1 million kids, families, and friends globally. The company is responsible for enabling kids to access devices, safe apps, connected services, and kids’ social networks through smartwatches, cameras, headphones, smart sketch boards, 3D pens, and more — all in a safe and secure environment.

Connected services enable kids to message, voice note, and make video and voice call to stay connected. Kids can also take and share photos, set reminders, listen to music, track their steps, and monitor their heart rates. Parents can keep track of their kids’ location and geofence with advanced GPS, WiFi, and GSM for accurate positioning, and connect with them anytime. In case of an emergency, an SOS button will also alert parents.

Howuku

TOP100

Howuku is a full-package suite that is intuitive and easy to use so users can make informed UX improvements, and in turn, increase their business revenue and create lasting relationships with customers for life.

Howuku helps product and marketing teams to improve user experience and increase conversion rates with the most comprehensive list of optimisation features such as dynamic heatmap, session recordings, a/b testing, web personalisation, feedback, and many more.

Whether you are a marketer, product manager, or UX designer, Howuku has all the tools you need to make a better product and convert more sales!

Boost Capital

TOP100

Boost is an award-winning B2B2C SAAS platform that allows Financial Institutions to onboard loan and savings account applicants digitally in 5-10 minutes without any app download.

Boost transforms Financial Institutions, expanding their client reach through chat-based financial services.

While banks in Southeast Asia traditionally operate in-person via brick-and-mortar branch locations, Boost allows these banks to enable their clients to apply digitally for loans in 5-10 minutes without an app download. This means massive new reach in new customers. Boost built their tech platform to have simple integrations so they can launch a new Financial Institution in 2-3 weeks.

GuruInovatif.id

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GuruInovatif.id is a Learning Management System that operates as a source of information in the world of education. They provide information on teaching and learning; a source of data sharing for schools; local government, and central government for continuous development.

GuruInovatif.id is also connected to various schools throughout Indonesia to provide the best experience in teaching and learning. The team behind GuruInovatif.id is always working to improve literacy and numeracy scores as learning outcomes, provide motivation and encouragement in teaching, and build structured relationships and communication with all education stakeholders.

Through competency development, skill-supporting training, and socialisation of educational content through technology, GuruInovatif.id has become an agent of change for the transformation of Indonesia’s education landscape.

HeyHi Pte Ltd

TOP100

HeyHi is a unique AI-enabled assessment and personalised learning system that empowers educators to teach and personalise education efficiently and seamlessly in a highly collaborative learning environment.

With teaching versatility for both live and self-paced instructions in a flexible learning environment — online, on-site, and hybrid, HeyHi magnifies learners’ opportunities and enhances their borderless learning journey.

At its core, HeyHi is an AI-enabled assessment and personalised learning system to Teach, Collaborate, and Personalise learning, in a highly collaborative learning space.

CAWIL AI

TOP100

CAWIL AI is an industry-agnostic artificial intelligence solution with custom machine learning models that can be deployed locally and through cloud integration. CAWIL AI’s value proposition is its experience in utilising data-driven information for digital transformation, providing a seamless and easy-to-integrate cloud-based platform for an on-demand transaction. They provide digital transformation through AI.

Their solutions address Sustainable Development Goals #9 on Innovation and Infrastructure through their digital platform for environmental and corporate management, utilising AI & IoT, and SDG #12 on Responsible Consumption and Production from Agriculture, and Supply Chain Management.

CEREBRO

CEREBRO helps teachers jumpstart online teaching with the least preparation possible, allowing them to save up to 400 hours per year through ready-made digital content on a managed cloud platform as a solution for reducing faculty workload and improving the quality of online teaching.

It completed the Ideaspace Acceleration Program in 2020 and was recognised among the Top 20 RESQUE Startups vs. COVID-19 of QBO Innovation Hub.

As a solution, CEREBRO® employs its pool of instructional designers to develop digital teaching materials that are aligned with the Department of Education’s Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) and the Commission on Higher Education’s New General Education Curriculum (NGEC). In addition, CEREBRO® also manages its clients’ learning management systems (LMS) so schools can worry less about maintaining their own IT teams or tech infrastructures and focus more on pedagogy.

Xctuality

Xctuality is an immersive technology startup that is connecting people everywhere by developing the next evolution of social networking that connects people with immersive experiences.

Xctuality’s solutions (Xctuality Interactive – VRAR 360/3D platform with innovative choose-your-own narrative interactive experiences, and Xctualyfe – Metaverse/Web3 platform providing Metaverse as a Service to businesses and ecosystems with functionalities that empower monetisation) help address issues concerning creators, brands, and businesses spending too much money in social media advertising while seeing organic traffic decline in the face of mysterious and often-changing algorithms. Furthermore, data is aggregated and controlled by a handful of large platforms that monetise from individual users’ data without benefiting the user.

Xctuality’s hypothesis is that by providing creators, brands, and businesses the ability to create and curate their very own branded experiences and bring in their base of customers, and having such worlds interconnected, these users could organically discover the various experiences and result in stronger customer loyalty and greater customer lifetime value, while at the same time democratising individual user data and enabling businesses to have better targeting and greater conversion.

ALPHACIRCLE Inc.

ALPHACIRCLE is a renowned startup that has created cutting-edge visual enhancement software called ‘ALPHAView’, which enables content creators to produce high-quality, original VR videos. Their proprietary algorithm is utilised during both the encoding and decoding process, enabling the distribution of four times more pixels to create the most immersive experience possible. This advanced technology allows for the viewing of videos in 8K 3D through smartphones and VR headsets, providing viewers with unparalleled visual clarity.

ALPHACIRCLE’s affordable and optimised VR software also addresses common issues related to image quality and playback synchronisation. This ensures that consumers can enjoy crisp image quality without the need for expensive, high-end VR headsets. Furthermore, their software helps eliminate playback problems and glitches, allowing for a seamless and uninterrupted viewing experience.

Red Dot Analytics

Maximising sustainability by minimising energy consumption for mission-critical infrastructures with Red Dot Analytics (RDA).

Their DCVerse platform harnesses the power of cutting-edge digital twin and AI technology.

With a decade of research from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore backing them, RDA leads the industry in “cognitive digital twin” technology, offering a virtual replica of real-world systems to simulate change before implementation, delivering optimal operating settings, and up to 40% lower energy consumption.

PriyoShop

When we talk about small businesses, we primarily focus on neighbourhood mom-and-pop shops, also known as retailers. These are the small shops we see around us on our streets. If we talk about the former, 97% of our country’s retail sales take place through them; e-commerce and modern retail play a smaller role. So, the majority of the retail transaction is actually taking place through neighbourhood shop retailers.

PriyoShop is a B2B e-commerce marketplace that is digitalising B2B trade for the unorganised retail sector in Bangladesh. The company’s platform connects small-scale retailers directly with manufacturers and suppliers. PriyoShop’s app allows small retailers to procure inventory from wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers at competitive rates.

BOOQED

BOOQED is a digital platform that empowers teams to truly work from anywhere and to help organisations become more agile in their approach to the office.

BOOQED simplifies how businesses deal with this process, making it an effortless outsourced tech solution for businesses. Its cutting-edge modular hardware and software platform provides an easy and cost-effective way for companies to create and manage private, flexible work and meeting spaces within their existing offices or buildings. Users can easily make bookings for spaces and gain access to meeting rooms via the mobile and web app. Modular furniture, smart booths, movable walls and a proprietary access control solution — along with the ability to deliver integrated amenities such as printing and automated coffee dispensers via the web app — provide a turnkey solution that can be deployed in any existing office or lobby space. Full automation reduces human resource requirements. Data analytics tools provide snapshots of how the space is being used.

Tictag.io

Tictag is a startup born in Singapore focusing on crowdsourcing data annotation. By simplifying data annotation tasks and putting them on a groundbreaking, gamified mobile application, Tictag aims to become the best way for people and companies to work with data. Whether it is for powering computer vision AI models or enhancing data analytics systems, Tictag offers high-quality, labelled datasets regardless of industry.

Tictag was designed to be extremely accessible and inclusive, allowing seniors and people with disabilities to perform micro-jobs on their phones. Through this, they aim to bring more opportunities to the community, especially to the disadvantaged and vulnerable parts of our population.

Ailytics

Ailytics is a Singapore-based company with the goal of enhancing safety and maximising productivity by leveraging existing cameras to receive real-time actionable insights and make better-informed decisions.

Ailyssa, their flagship product, is a video analytics solution that can connect to any current CCTV infrastructure to offer real-time warnings, trends, and reports.

Ailyssa is used by site staff and managers to evaluate subcontractor performance, track construction progress, educate workers on risky practices, and reinforce company safety standards. End-users such as project managers and safety officers can leverage this technology to have better visibility of their site’s overall safety and progress to make better-informed decisions for their operations.

Finext

Finext automates your personal financial management. Users simply have to snap receipts and Finext will automate your expenses tracking and personal tax calculations.

Messy receipts? Tedious and time-consuming to track your personal expenses? Have to keep physical receipts for 7 years for claiming tax relief? Finext helps you to automate all these work within one app. Just snap your receipt, and Finext will do the rest with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Users can submit their personal income tax with just one click, and Finext will calculate payables and rebates and submit them easily. 

Their vision is to become users’ everyday personal finance app.

To be battled out at the 2023 Echelon Asia Summit

Watch out for these exciting startups as they battle it out on the TOP100 pitching stage at the 2023 Echelon Asia Summit happening on June 14-15 at Singapore EXPO.

The Echelon Asia Summit is a leading technology conference that brings together experts from around the world to discuss the latest trends and innovations in the industry, share expert knowledge, and provide opportunities to network with peers. The event is a must-attend for anyone in the tech industry looking to stay ahead of the curve.

Catch these startups and more at this year’s TOP100 stage! To learn more about Echelon Asia Summit 2023 and to sign up for the event, visit the official page here.

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