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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.
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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 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 is the third batch of startups that will be competing at this year’s TOP100!
15 more semifinalists for the 2023 TOP100
TABLE – Lifestyle & Beyond
TABLE is Asia’s up-and-coming, end-to-end online platform serving as a curated marketplace for premium lifestyle bookings.
TABLE, through its curated and managed marketplace, www.tablebooking.co, has become Thailand’s go-to platform for premium lifestyle experiences. From convenient online table reservations in the FnB space to exclusive lifestyle deals, unforgettable experiences, event discovery and booking, and concierge services for high-value clients, TABLE ticks all the boxes.
TABLE has experienced 300%+ quarter-on-quarter organic growth, already having served thousands of customers across Thailand, including Bangkok, Koh Phangan, Koh Samui, Pattaya, and Phuket. TABLE plans to expand its reach even further, with two new locations in Thailand in Q2 and one new international location in Asia in Q3 of 2023.
DashoContent
DashoContent is an AI-powered B2B content creation platform designed for marketing. 400 million small and medium businesses suffer from current options for content creation because they are expensive in time, resources, or 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 a pay-as-you-go content platform to create marketing content for businesses that is consistent in their brand voice. Through a platform with powerful AI-assistive tools, they combine the benefits of automation and handcrafted content through their community of vetted expert content creators matched to businesses to help create content that helps with their marketing online.
Qalboo
Qalboo is an Islamic well-being platform to help Muslims find peace. In Southeast Asia, conversations around mental health still carry a negative stigma. This is especially apparent in religious communities, as there is 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 wellbeing app is faith-based — providing Muslims with evidence-based solutions that are integrated with Islamic values from the Quran and Sunnah, turning the link between faith and wellbeing into actionable and easy-to-follow solutions.
Biomark
BioMark is a tech startup that operates in the health and wellness space. The company is owned by Pathology Asia Holdings (PAH) and Texas Pacific Group (TPG), one of the largest global private equity firms, with business presence/entities/subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Australia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Their combined businesses result in them 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 medications. Patients using their platform can better make sense of their lab results and monitor the progress of their health.
Parlon
Parlon is a beauty technology platform where you can discover, book, and buy best-in-price beauty and wellness deals in the Philippines. Parlon has partnered with over 450 salons and wellness brands with a combined number of 1,500 branches in more than 60 cities/provinces in the Philippines. With the widest salon network in the Philippines and expanding soon in Singapore, they are on the road to becoming Southeast Asia’s largest beauty services discovery and fintech platform.
They provide their merchant partners with a world-class multi-channel ecosystem, enabling them to accept bookings and payments, not just in the Parlon app and website, but also via the biggest platforms like Grab, Google, and GCash. With their proprietary technology, they have helped their merchant partners go digital by enabling them to sell their deals online and manage their daily operations.
AI Communis
AI Communis is a Singapore-based startup with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies through its flagship product, Auris AI.
Auris AI is a web-based platform that automatically generates transcripts and subtitles from audio and video files. It also translates between English and other languages, particularly Asian languages like Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, and Hindi. Utilising its own ASR technology, Auris AI is able to specialise in Asian languages and drive down operating costs, making it more affordable for users.
In a nutshell, AI Communis is the leader in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software.
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Microtube Technologies Pte Ltd
Microtube Technologies is a wearable sensing technology University spin-off focusing on soft, stretchable sensing technologies that can be incorporated for fitness, gaming, healthcare, and metaverse interactions. Its solution allows objective data capture using these imperceptible wearables, building a seamless integration between wearables and activity tracking in both the real and virtual or metaverse worlds.
ARIS is a wearable developed by Microtube Technologies Pte Ltd to revolutionise gym strength performance. Weighing less than 35g, it is capable of providing accurate and real-time muscle analysis and deriving more than 15 data metrics, including muscle expansion/contraction, range of motion, stability, control, consistency, fatigue level, power, speed, estimated 1 rep max, tempo, uniformity, rep count, total volume, and time under tension, among others.
Potioneer
Potioneer is a private chef/dinner booking platform with the most number of active chefs in Thailand, providing venue alternatives for unique dining experiences. They empower both young and veteran chefs with an inspirational course menu that showcases their identity to bigger crowds.
To serve higher demand from many diners, the team behind Potioneer aims to launch an “Open Table” feature in mid-2023 to enable chefs to accept reservations similar to omakase/chef’s table manner, not limiting to private group dinners.
The team strongly believes that Potioneer can be beneficial to many more chefs in the Southeast Asian region and hopes to grow the number of chefs to 20,000 by 2027.
24 Solution Group (Thailand)
24 Solution Group is a VC-backed one-stop maintenance and technician service platform based in Bangkok, removing all the hassles so that clients can spend more time on mission-critical business operations. Especially for business accounts, 24 Solution Group’s service extends to areas such as material marketplace, inventory management, and predictive and preventive maintenance with the integration of their computerised maintenance management system. Today, they provide a spectrum of complex and specialised services in interior, renovation, and maintenance services.
Unlike other platforms, they are not just a matchmaker between clients and agents but a real end-to-end service provider. Recognising that property maintenance is an elaborate practice that requires specialised knowledge, they have a dedicated team that controls the process from start to finish, ensuring that their services are of the highest standard. Today, their ecosystem holds more than 500 active fixer teams and 500 material vendor stores.
treasure
treatsure is a mobile platform connecting businesses with surplus food to consumers to tackle food wastage. Users can purchase a takeaway buffet-in-a-box from $10 or surplus groceries up to 80% off.
They are a Singapore-based startup tackling the problem of food wastage through its innovative technological solutions. Its flagship product is a mobile platform connecting hotels and grocers with surplus food to individual consumers. In 2018, treatsure 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.
BuzzAR
Based in Singapore, BuzzAR is a location-based AR solution for retail and commerce.
Since 2018, BuzzAR has been building metaverse solutions in real life (IRL) and has been uniquely positioned for luxury brands — with its clientele including regional Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. They pioneer the offline-first offline to online to offline (O2o2o) traffic platform, turning offline traffic visible to venue owners, shopping mall operators, and hoteliers.
BuzzAR escalated to global prominence with its debut at London Tech Week where thousands turned up, including Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Heng Swee Keat, queuing up to play with their Pop Up Metaverse.
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Wallet Codes
A one-stop platform for gamers to buy digital vouchers with ease and redeem them in peace, Wallet Codes offers a wide variety of over 50 digital top-up vouchers and gift cards at affordable prices, including Mobile Legends, PUBG UC, Steam, iTunes, Nintendo, and many more.
Wallet Codes’ top priority is to facilitate fast, secure, and convenient transactions on its platforms across all payment modes. Additionally, registered users will be enrolled in their P Points loyalty reward program with any purchase. The accumulated points can be used to redeem any product available on the platform. The highlight? There are no expiry dates or redemption periods. Furthermore, Wallet Codes also offers B2B partnerships for brand distributors and resellers looking to expand their portfolios.
MedsGo
MedsGo was created with the goal of making medicines and healthcare supplies convenient for Filipinos. Founded in 2023, MedsGo is a digital service that allows customers to order these items on the web. They team up with registered pharmacies and distributors to guarantee quick access to essential medical products. Their services are continually evolving, which include same-day delivery, a telephone health line, and an online prescription option.
It is MedsGo’s ambition to become the principal e-commerce provider of medical items and healthcare essentials around the Philippines. The company seeks to revolutionise the purchasing process of medications, making it hassle-free, and dispensing without the need to queue up at a store.
MedsGo is devoted to providing a simpler way of obtaining medicines and healthcare goods. With the help of their partner pharmacies and distributors, they are committed to taking care of the medicinal needs of Filipinos. They are also making every effort to expand their products and services by including health-related assistance.
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.
Fraxtor promotes 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.
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.
EkkBaz is dedicated to supporting small businesses and promoting economic growth and development in local communities. Through its partnerships with local organisations and governments, the platform is working to identify and address the unique challenges that small businesses face in different regions and to develop customised solutions that are tailored to their needs.
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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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