Facebook has announced the completion of its second accelerator programme in Singapore.
The programme is being run in partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and is powered by Plug and Play.
The event saw 14 startups participating for partnerships and investment opportunities.
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Before the pitch day, all companies underwent a rigorous six-month training programme, which provided them with mentorships and networking opportunities to accelerate their business.
For this edition, startups were required to demonstrate the use of Facebook tools and trends, such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Messenger, and social commerce.
They were also intended to adopt trusted data and AI practices, such as IMDA’s trusted data-sharing framework and/or model AI governance framework.
All startups that pitched in the event will join Facebook’s startup “alumni programme” that will continue to connect them to a global network of startups.
“Supporting the startup community has never been more important as we all face the impact of COVID-19 and the disruption to our regular in-person programs. This cohort has demonstrated incredible resiliency as they worked to not only keep their startups going but take the opportunity to assess and realign their business priorities for the better,” said Virginia Yang, Director, Platform Partnerships and Programs APAC.
Below is the brief of the 14 startups:
Lucep (Singapore)
A sales and marketing tool that connects leads from FB ads directly with their sales agents.
Outside Voice (Singapore)
Helps enterprises conduct interviews with customers at scale via video chatbots.
Privyr (Singapore)
A mobile CRM for sales professionals who run their businesses from their phone.
Trabble (Singapore)
A SaaS platform that helps businesses in the travel and hospitality industry automate guest engagement on their channels.
UIB (Singapore)
A virtual assistant that facilitates frictionless on-boarding and seamless communications between people and devices.
Aris (Thailand)
A Facebook live tool that helps businesses to create a home-shopping experience on Facebook Pages.
Assemblr (Indonesia)
A platform to create, discover, share augmented reality experiences.
AVANA (Malaysia)
A social commerce enabler that helps businesses convert social media from promotional to transactional and automate business processes.
Ecomobi (Vietnam)
A social selling platform that enables brands to sell products directly to end-users via a social seller community and AI chatbot technology.
Halosis (Indonesia)
A social commerce platform that integrates AI chatbot and personalised solutions to help social media sellers convert chat into sales.
Infofed (Thailand)
An online platform to operate online e-sports management. It manages interactive contents created by tournament participants.
Qiscus (Indonesia)
A conversational platform that helps businesses deliver excellent customer experience.
Social Light (Philippines)
It places WiFi in low-income communities and monetises by collecting plastics and exchanging free WiFi subsidised by brands thereby giving them sales, consumption, competition data and CSR.
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TravelFlan (Hong Kong)
A B2C digital solution provider that uses AI, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide end-to-end digital solutions.
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