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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!
14 more semifinalists for the 2023 TOP100
Pajak.io
Pajak.io is a leading tax software provider that offers advanced automation solutions to streamline VAT invoice management for modern businesses in Indonesia. With its innovative Host-to-Host (H2H) solution, they revolutionise the way businesses handle their tax compliance, providing a seamless and efficient experience.
Their comprehensive suite of tools and features empowers businesses to automate the entire process of VAT invoice generation, management, and reporting. Through seamless integration with the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) system, Pajak.io enables businesses to effortlessly generate accurate and compliant VAT invoices, eliminating manual errors and reducing the risk of penalties.
One of their key offerings is the H2H solution, which allows businesses to integrate their internal systems with the DGT system, enabling real-time data exchange and automation of tax-related processes. This integration streamlines the production of VAT invoices, ensuring seamless compliance and reducing administrative burdens.
Broom
Broom is a digital platform for the Indonesian mobility ecosystem.
Established in 2021, Broom provides integrated business tooling for car dealerships that offer tech-enabled access to working capital financing in one platform. In 2022, Broom has more than 2,000 used car dealership members in the Greater Jakarta area and has productively financed dealers’ inventories.
Broom is co-founded by experienced leaders in reputable ride-hailing startups, subject matter experts in the automobility sector, and serial entrepreneurs. Together, Broom combines a deep understanding of the business and clarity on how technology can revolutionise the industry.
FAzpass
FAzpass is a Multi-Factor Authentication Solution Service Provider that helps enterprises engage with Omnichannel and Multi-Provider with just Single API Integration. They help companies have an improved Two-Factor Authentication or (2FA) experience for their users, enabling you to connect all OTP vendors like SMS, WhatsApp, email, sim-based verification, and others to FAzpass’ single platform solution.
Established in 2016, Fazpass always guarantees 99.9% uptime service quality. They are also committed to always innovating their solutions to the various needs of customers, both professional and personal.
Fazpass’s mission is to help millions of people and businesses take advantage of the potential of the internet to build success through user authentication services that meet the criteria of being safe, reliable, and transparent.
MOVE IT MOVE IT LIMITED
MOVE IT MOVE IT is an AI logistic platform powered by big data and AI, advocating for the tech-innovation of green logistics and a comprehensive property ecosystem. The platform connects clients and service suppliers, including the moving firms, logistics firms, recycling firms, resell furniture store, etc., for residential, commercial, and event relocation. Through utilising furniture detecting technology and integrated solutions, MOVE IT MOVE IT delivers data visualisation of properties’ and customers’ status.
They provide services such as a SaaS platform for B2B clients to streamline fleet management for delivery and relocation progress.
MOVE IT MOVE IT’s vision is to build an integrated property ecosystem that provides hands-on services to its customers. They target to integrate interior design recommendations visually before relocation with the AI method and post-moving, including cleaning services, home insurance, and electronics and furniture purchase discount channels.
Nicslab
Nicslab, a fabless chip company, is developing electronic and photonic integrated circuits for future optical solutions in data centres, AI, and quantum computing. Their solution controls the light to process information and transfer data faster and more efficiently.
Industries and labs do not want to spend budget for an expensive and inefficient device that is hard to control, bulky, operates at slow speed, and with high power consumption. Nicslab has created a device — a source measurement system with photonic transceivers, enabling the industry to manage their work and transfer data faster, with an easy-to-use, compact, and affordable device.
Nicslab is going to revolutionise communications at the speed of light for infrastructure in data centres, instrumentation, AI, and quantum computing with chip-scale integrated electronics and photonics.
Hangles
Hangles is a Recommerce enabler with the mission to drive sustainability through everyday fashion and take the lead to make zero-waste fashion possible. They are extending the life cycle of clothes and encouraging shoppers and fashion brands to Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle for more possibilities.
Hangles transforms resale by providing a trusted and convenient resale fashion marketplace for shoppers to shop secondhand easily and clean out their closets. Not only for individuals, but they are also extending their platform to B2B to enable brands and retailers to easily participate in the resale economy.
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StickEarn
StickEarn is an Advertising Technology startup based in Jakarta, Indonesia focusing on creating solutions for Outdoor Advertising through Data and Technology that provides brands with impactful, intelligent, and accessible advertising. The company’s first-of-its-kind advertising platform allows brands to efficiently reach and engage their customers on their everyday journeys and activities.
StickEarn was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company has grown rapidly and now has a presence in over 30 cities across Indonesia. StickEarn has worked with a wide range of brands, including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Samsung, and McDonald’s.
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Smudg
Smudg is a unique B2C app for hyper-personalised beauty products and skin routine recommendations that help beauty shoppers discover the right products for their skin, saving them money and time wasted on product trials, while also minimising returns and product wastage in the industry.
The process of discovering and using beauty products is overwhelming with thousands of products on the market and a one-size-fits-all approach to recommendations.
At Smudg, they are addressing this problem by providing hyper-personalised recommendations that take into account each user’s individual skin and preferences. Their app is revolutionising the beauty industry by making it easier and more accessible for consumers to find the products that work for them.
Smudg goes beyond generic recommendations by combining AI-driven algorithms with the expertise of dermatologists, makeup artists, and cosmetologists. This ensures that their recommendations are not only personalised but also informed by industry best practices and scientific knowledge.
cWallet
All nations are racing to Net Zero Emission missions. However, in Thailand, only 0.03% of organisations have access to their carbon footprint due to its complexity, limited services, and high cost. Three million organisations in Thailand are left behind when it comes to the world’s mission.
To address this issue, cWallet provides carbon accounting in one place as a comprehensive solution for tracking carbon footprint, monitoring and reducing carbon emissions and meeting environmental standards. The platform also enables users to offset and trade carbon credits, making it a hassle-free way to manage their carbon footprint. Such an innovation can help bringing 3.1 million organisations in Thailand closer to meeting Environmental standards and essentially drive the country towards achieving the Net Zero goal.
cWallet was developed by three founders, each one specialising in Environment, Enterprise software, and Technology development with extensive experience in founding a CMMS Platform for factory customers, which has been used by over 6,000 customers with more than 120,000 users worldwide.
The Posture Lab
The Posture Lab is a registered social enterprise focusing on online and offline solutions to improve posture and reduce common chronic pain problems. Their clients come from a diverse mix of backgrounds from the sedentary, desk-bound, underserved communities, and amateur to professional athletes and performers.
The Posture Lab’s team has a strong practitioner pool of sports science graduates with an understanding of sports, performing arts, and skills to work with the sedentary and underserved communities.
They offer two platforms:
ONLINE: AI end-to-end fitness posture app (https://www.bodynetic.co/).
OFFLINE: Managed gym facilities integrated with their app solution and in-person team.
Bizbaz
Bizbaz offers comprehensive customer intelligence and risk assessment solutions that analyse and assess the lifestyle and social as well as financial data of an individual. Using the latest insights from applied behavioural sciences, anthropology, and machine learning technologies, Bizbaz enables and empowers its corporate clients to acquire new banked and unbanked customers, make better risk-related predictions, mitigate costs, and generate additional revenues.
Financial-history-based credit bureau scoring as a means of assessing a person’s risk became a mainstream technology used by financial institutions in the late 1970s, this made sense at that time as the only digital data available about the person was their bank account-related records, if such existed. Fast forward 50 years, and while there are a handful of innovators in risk assessment, unlike them, Bizbaz is taking a holistic approach to analysing data and assessing risk.
Filmplace
Filmplace is a marketplace that helps connect brands with creatives, where brands can hire locations, cast, talent, crew, equipment, props, etc all at Filmplace.
Headquartered in Singapore with branch offices and teams in South Korea and India, Filmplace is the first full-fledged content creator marketplace.
Filmplace is considered an AirBnB for the creator’s economy. Their platform is solving problems commonly faced throughout the entire film industry worldwide, which ranges from securing a film location up to hiring your talents within the shortest time while lowering their cost and reducing resources. Filmplace’s target audience is the brands and the content creators. They have over 10 products in their pipeline and plan to expand to over 100 countries by 2026. Their platform includes freelancers’ wage payments, bidding for local and international projects, and their very own cloud-based video editing solution.
Ayo Indonesia
Ayo Indonesia (ayo.co.id) is Indonesia’s leading Sports Tech Startup. They operate a sports community app that allows users to meet players and communities, find sparring partners, join sports competitions, book venues, and try new sports.
Ayo is building an end-to-end ecosystem for sports players. Ayo also works with sport venue owners to manage their venues more efficiently and increase their sales. Ayo allows sport venue owners to receive online bookings and gives them access to Ayo’s growing sports communities. Ayo also provides venue owners with online tools to manage their schedules, pricing, staffing, reporting, memberships, etc.
Their vision is to improve the sporting experience of all athletes. They are building a complete sporting ecosystem in order to make it easier for athletes to participate in sports. Currently, there are over 9,000 sports communities registered on Ayo Indonesia with over 180,000 players in the ecosystem.
Bioma
Bioma is an asset-light product-as-a-service platform.
Bioma offers asset rentals such as electronics, furniture, kitchen appliances, and medical devices to businesses with the goal of minimising upfront spending, risk, and operational hassle.
Bioma generates and captures demand for asset rentals, then collaborates with asset owners to meet supply needs and orchestrate a network of service providers for rental fulfilment (logistics, cleaning, and maintenance). Bioma manages this ecosystem in an asset-light manner for scalability; to meet exponential customer demand, diversify into various product categories, and extend the geographical footprint.
Also read: Connect with this year’s TOP100 startups at Echelon 2023!
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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