The She Loves Tech Global Conference 2023 concluded on Friday with the announcement of Aprisium as the winner of She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition 2023. The startup was the first Singapore-based company to be named a winner of the competition.
In addition to Aprisium, She Loves Tech also announced The Coring Company and Rayo as second and third winners of the startup competition.
It also awarded Dark Kak with the Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship Award presented by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Aprisium builds a technology that allows industries to monitor and enable industrial waste treatment. By winning this competition, it won a US$20,000 equity-free cash prize and other prizes such as AWS credits.
The Coring Company aims to make mining more sustainable while Rayo builds a browser that helps people with disabilities access the internet more easily.
Dark Kak creates jewelleries that allows women to record and report criminal activities that happened to them.
As the world’s largest startup competition for women and technology, the competition hosts 29 regional rounds across 70+ countries, before culminating in the grand finals in Singapore.
The organising committee noted in a press statement that AI emerged as the top theme from the startups this year. Among thousands of entries across technology sectors, it is seeing a fascinating evolution and expansion of how AI is being used to solve problems.
She Loves Tech celebrates its ninth year with the She Loves Tech Global Conference October 26-27 in Singapore. The conference is the culmination of a worldwide startup competition celebrated over a two-day schedule of talks, workshops and the announcement of the winner on Friday.
This year’s theme of METAMORPHOSIS addresses the current ‘tech winter’, a period of prolonged, significant downturn in technology investments and business activities, and will debate the rising tension between rapid advancements in technology, such as AI and data collection, and the impact on life, society and the natural world.
Notable speakers at the event include acclaimed author Nir Eyal who shares insights from his latest book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, esteemed Singaporean VC Jenny Lee, and former Singaporean politician and entrepreneur Penny Low.
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