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Featuring the TOP100 stage, the 2023 Echelon Asia Summit is happening at the Singapore EXPO on 14-15 June 2023. Are you a startup founder, investor, corporate, or tech enthusiast? Don’t miss out on one of the most anticipated tech conferences in the region! For more information, visit the official Echelon page.
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.
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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 TOP100 stage of the Echelon Asia Summit slated on June 14-15 at the Singapore EXPO. Top contenders will proceed to the TOP100 finals where winners will be selected.
Without further ado, here is the second batch of startups that will be competing at this year’s TOP100!
15 more semifinalists for the 2023 TOP100
Hello3Dworld
Hello3Dworld is a Metaverse platform where users can create their own 3D Avatar from a single photo in just a couple of seconds.
Through Hello3Dworld, users can easily create their own Metaverse with only a few keywords and, through that Metaverse, participate in activities that replicate real-world experiences, such as shopping, entertainment, working, studying, and travelling, among others.
Staying true to their slogan, “Real World on the Internet”, inside Hello3Dworld’s Metaverse platform, users will have their own houses and assets; Brands will have their own offices, showrooms, real estate projects, malls, schools; and Governments can bring landscapes, tourist sites, museums — all within the Metaverse.
Castomize Technologies Pte. Ltd.
Castomize is revolutionising medical devices with 4D-printing technology, starting with orthopaedic casts and splints. Castomize’s 4D-printed casts provide a myriad of benefits to both doctors and patients. For doctors, they reduce the amount of manpower, time, and tools needed to apply and remove casts. For patients, they provide unprecedented comfort and ease of care throughout the healing journey.
As a pre-revenue spin-off from the Singapore University of Technology and Design that was established in late-2022, Castomize has progressed quickly in terms of traction, being in several feedback loops with orthopaedic experts from 5 different hospitals in Singapore and Korea. They have also gained market traction and interest, having signed several Sales and R&D LOIs and MOUs with organisations in the Asia-Pacific, including an upcoming clinical trial at a national hospital in Singapore. Additionally, they have been awarded several non-dilutive grants and awards from organisations such as the National Research Foundation of Singapore and have been onboarded on several incubators and accelerators such as Shinhan Square Bridge, SMU BIG, Temasek Launchpad, and SUTD.
FLEXWAVE CO., LTD.
FLEXWAVE builds an embedded PV energy harvester for IIoTs with 75% more power, which can reduce the size of the device and make the “wireless” come true.
Flexwave offers an innovative optical method to overcome the limits, naming the fibre-like technology as Flexible Waveguiding Photovoltaics. According to the nature of the waveguide material, PV panels can collect photon energy from a wider angle. Flexwave aims to solve the energy crisis of IoT endnotes. There will be trillions of IoT devices in the next decade, resulting in batteries that require huge maintenance costs. Flexwave provides an embedded energy harvester which gives 75% more power than the traditions.
Paladium Technologies
Paladium Technologies acquires and analyses first-party purchase data to help B2C merchants increase revenue with strong market intelligence. They are an up-and-coming data company that is focused on the collection and processing of consumer data, with analytics as an added layer to provide greater value to Consumer-Facing Businesses.
They offer actual monetisation of the consumer’s data to the consumer — a unique proposition unheard of in Developed Countries (DCs) within Asia Pacific, where consumers are starting to be aware of how the Big Tech Companies are exploiting their data without consent. Through this, they also enable consumers to monetise their personal data.
The venture is also privately invested.
eMobily
eMobily provides a mode of electric transportation to underserved communities and cities. Specifically, they exist to serve the e-bike and e-scooter community by providing sustainable transportation in the EV industry. Under its belt, eMobily develops technology based around micro-electric vehicle infrastructure, such as charging and security port stations for micro-mobility to organised fleets, including developing a localised machine learning/AI geolocation sensor that can help riders and robots pinpoint the exact location needed during trips in large areas that are not accurately listed on their maps.
eMobily is an all-in-one stop solution for the EV Market. It has a consortium group of specialities to solve manufacturing, distribution, and global expansion for accelerated electrification.
GeeTest
GeeTest, the leading bot management vendor and the creator of the SlideCAPTCHA, is the most intelligent and robust solution that frees your website, mobile apps, and APIs from malicious traffic.
For 10 years, GeeTest has been focusing on the field of cybersecurity, polishing innovative products and ideas to strongly promote the development of this industry. GeeTest believes that the imminent challenges perturbing the Cybersecurity landscape are the challenges between improving the quality of traffic (managing the proportion of fraud traffic) to enable companies to efficiently monetise traffic and combating the hidden and profit-driven bot threat.
The H2 World Inc.
The H2 World Inc. produces longer-duration energy storage and monetisation solutions for renewable energy. Their turnkey H2 solutions provide cleaner, more flexible lower cost energy independence and security.
With more renewable energy and electrification, electrical grids are more strained and less reliable. Fuels in widespread use such as natural gas emit far too much CO2e. As such, The H2 World Inc. provides affordable turnkey hydrogen generation through electrolysis and methane transformation, storage, and energy systems, pods for homes/small businesses, and containerised packs for larger customers. Their systems provide the lowest cost hydrogen, with near Co2e.
ERP360 (PT ERP SAAS INDONESIA)
ERP360 delivers Integrated Real Estate ERP Cloud in Indonesia, specialised for real estate developers and enhanced with Automation & Business Intelligence, all at an affordable price.
In 3-5 years, the company is poised to have BIG DATA Real Estate Analytics created by Artificial Intelligence (based on real data transactions), that provides insight to real estate mapping price, customer behaviour, buying capability, supply and demand in each area, and many other data or statistics all over Indonesia. If they can make this happen, the Big Data will create many other business opportunities such as feasibility study, consultancy, and even real-time available unit property portal, while also collaborating with other giant proptech like PropertyGuru, among others.
NextPay
NextPay empowers MSMEs to automate collecting, sending, and managing of money — all from one powerful platform. NextPay provides easy-to-use financial services without high fees and barriers to entry.
Since 2020, over 3,000 Filipino entrepreneurs have trusted NextPay to help them simplify their financial operations. It is their mission to build the right financial tools and technology so local businesses can thrive and scale. NextPay’s simple and affordable set of business banking services where business owners can easily sign up to start include Collecting Money: sending digital invoices, accepting payments via links and QR codes, automated reminders; Sending Money: salary payouts, supplier payments, etc; and Managing Money: real-time reporting, possible integration with HRIS and accounting systems.
Lokéin
Lokéin is a full-suite social commerce platform to easily help digitise and digitalise business owners, brand owners, and MSMEs including second-hand goods merchants while at the same time, managing their business easily, anytime, and anywhere. With their solution, those MSMEs can simply digitalise and digitise their businesses with a no-code omni-channel social selling software that enables MSMEs to sell seamlessly and manage their businesses efficiently.
The software includes an e-commerce storefront, full-suite seller dashboard, custom landing page builder, built-in marketing tools with AI assistant, Bahasa Melayu Chatbot AI assistant, affiliate system, and e-POS manager. The solution is a lightweight, fast, responsive e-commerce software that comes with a pre-fixed template where users can set up their store in just seven minutes.
PETSKITA
PETSKITA is a one-stop solution multi-brand e-commerce platform for all pet care needs with personalised “pet profile” features, transforming the way pet parents shop.
Some of the major problems being faced by the pet industry in Indonesia and Southeast Asia are the hassle that pet parents face, having to navigate through many different platforms. It’s also hard to access trusted and quality products and services, which makes the overall buying experience for pet products inconvenient. Currently, Indonesian pet parents are still getting their products from conventional pet stores or general marketplaces. There is still no trusted online platform specifically for pet parents, like Chewy (www.chewy.com) in the US or a large pet store chain in Indonesia.
PETSKITA is solving those problems by building the first integrated pet ecosystem in Indonesia. Making PETSKITA a household name by being a pet care brand that people love and that resonates with Millennials and Gen Z. PETSKITA aims to be the “Chewy” of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
ALGOGENE FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
ALGOGENE is the next-generation investment platform for learning, developing, testing, executing, and investing trading bots. They provide tick-level multi-asset, multi-event data for model development, backtesting, live simulation, portfolio analytics, and risk monitoring. Through ALGOGENE’s global exchange network, users can easily manage and deploy their trading strategies to multiple broker accounts. They also incubate outstanding trading algorithms by providing seed funding for pilot tests and building track record on the path to launch a hedge fund or fintech product with users.
Through their patents-backed web platform, users can easily create any algo strategies, and connect to multiple brokers/exchanges for live trading. They can also learn from ALGOGENE’s trading community and copy their winning strategies into their portfolio!
DIFISOFT Viet Nam JSC
Difisoft Viet Nam JSC (Digital Finance Software) is a fintech company founded in 2018 that is developing financial solutions and content for major financial institutions in Vietnam, such as VCSC, KIS Vietnam, KB Securities Vietnam, Mirae Asset Securities Vietnam, and KB Fina.
Based on the technology and experience in the financial IT sector, Difisoft is currently developing a community-based investing platform to serve more retail investors in Vietnam, Paave (coined from the words “Passion” and “Wave”. As a social investing platform with the mission of serving more retail investors in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, they pave the way to make financial freedom possible for everyone especially the Millenials.
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.
Instead of spending hours, kamilas4am has shortened the process of engaging with UGC creators to 10 minutes. No more hours of finding the right creator, negotiating contracts, and endless back-and-forth to explain the project brief. With a click of a button, brands can book a creator to work within their platform of 1,000 creators.
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, agents to generate leads and close deals faster, and home buyers get their dream homes hassle-free. Their 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.
To be battled out at the 2023 Echelon Asia Summit’s TOP100 stage
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.
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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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