Registration for TOP100 is now open and we are looking forward to seeing your startup on the list!

TOP100 Program gives you the one golden chance to connect with hundreds of investors, showcase your startup at Echelon, pitch on the TOP100 stage, and access special programs. Find out what’s new in TOP100 and join here: https://bit.ly/TOP100_2023

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Now that Echelon Asia Summit is coming back in full swing, e27 is determined to make one of its key features, the TOP100, one of the best yet!

The TOP100 program is an annual initiative organised by e27 to showcase and recognise the most promising startups in the Asia-Pacific region.

The program is open to exciting new startups from the Asia-Pacific region with innovative ideas that break barriers across different industries. The selection of the TOP100 involves a rigorous screening process, including an evaluation of the startup’s product or service, team, market potential, and traction.

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The selected startups are given the opportunity to pitch their business ideas at the Echelon Asia Summit this June 14-15, 2023, at the Singapore Expo. The program also provides exposure to investors, mentors, and potential partners, enabling growth among participating startups and helping them expand their networks across the larger global tech ecosystem.

The TOP100 program has become one of the most prestigious startup competitions in the region, attracting thousands of applicants each year and providing valuable visibility and support to the most promising startups in the region.

15 startups closer to competing at this year’s TOP100

Being a frontrunner refers to startups close to making it to this year’s TOP100 program.

With all the amazing startups sprouting across the Asia-Pacific region’s vibrant tech startup ecosystem, we now present you with 15 frontrunners closer to competing at this year’s TOP100. Get to know them here!

CAWIL.AI

CAWIL AI is an industry-agnostic artificial intelligence solution with custom machine learning models that can be deployed locally and through cloud integration. CAWIL AI’s value proposition is its experience in utilising data-driven information for digital transformation providing a seamless and easy-to-integrate cloud-based platform for an on-demand transaction.

CAWIL AI provides digital transformation through AI. Their solutions address Sustainable Development Goals number 9: Innovation and Infrastructure through their digital platform for environmental and corporate management, utilising AI & IoT, and SDG number 12: Responsible consumption, production from agriculture, and supply chain management.

TrinityEco

Founded in 2019, TrinityEco Pte Ltd is an aspiring sustainability tech company in Singapore that provides sustainability reporting products and services for assets, both physical and digital. They have also developed Trivity, a platform that helps to create sustainability reports that encourage collaborations and financing between companies and their corporate partners. TrinityEco’s data analytics platforms help organisations to sustainably scale by providing predictive decision-making and intelligence-backed actions.

Ever AI Technologies

Ever AI is the first No Code AI Platform where everyone can build their own AI model without writing a single line of code.

Ever AI helps businesses and education organisations adopt AI with affordable cost and reduced time to market from 3 to 6 months to just 3 to 6 hours. Users can build their own AI model using their data and deploy it as a web application without writing a single line of code.

RAPUTA

RAPUTA is an online virtual world streaming platform and digital content distribution service that allows users to play and interact with customised 3D avatars in AI-generated virtual worlds.

The RAPUTA platform enables users to chat and interact with others with photorealistic 3D avatars in digital worlds on an internet browser. Their solution provides the best metaverse social networking experience without the need for VR. RAPUTA’s vision is to transform text messaging and video image processing into a movie-like 3D virtual world.

Cerebro

Cerebro is a courseware featuring ready-made lessons and quizzes for Philippine schools, reducing teachers’ workload by up to 400 hours per year.

Cerebro helps teachers jumpstart online teaching with the least amount of preparation possible, allowing them to save up to 400 hours per year through ready-made digital content on a managed cloud platform as a solution for reducing faculty workload and improving the quality of online teaching.

Xctuality Pte Ltd

Xctuality is an immersive technology startup that is connecting people everywhere by developing the next evolution of social networking that connects people with immersive experiences.

Xctuality was born from years of on-the-ground experience with renowned cultural events and festivals, such as Slush Singapore, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Streats Food Festival, the Singapore National Day Parade 2020, Singapore International Arts Festival, and Majulah Festival with the company’s experiences in providing E-ticketing and smart event solutions aside.

LTS Ventures

LTS Ventures is a Lao FinTech and Investment company. They are developing businesses and creating software for the financial sector. LTS Ventures is digitising every transaction of 850 village banks to provide risk metrics, credit scores, and predictive loan analytics. Their platform allows many verticals to build in such as climate change protection, social payments, and food safety. 90% of customers are small-hold farmers that the company can directly strengthen and support through their digital platform. Finally, LTS Ventures also offer financial literacy training so that people learn sustainably how to manage their money.

ALPHACIRCLE Inc.

ALPHACIRCLE is a renowned startup that has created a cutting-edge visual enhancement software called ‘ALPHAView’, which enables content creators to produce high-quality, original VR videos. Their proprietary algorithm is utilised during both the encoding and decoding process, enabling the distribution of four times more pixels to create the most immersive experience possible. This advanced technology allows viewing videos in 8K 3D through smartphones and VR headsets, providing viewers with unparalleled visual clarity.

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Loyalty Data Co

Loyalty Data Co creates Whitelabel B2B platforms that power Status Match or Challenge offers for major loyalty program providers. Their Status Match technology facilitates high-value customer acquisition.

The B2C platform supports consumers in their status journey. The corporate sales and loyalty team collaboration platform app allows for faster, more transparent onboarding of new high-value customers. Airlines, hotels, cruise liners, car rentals, and loyalty programs — which offer elite status gifting to new customers — will benefit from Status Match invitation management.

Red Dot Analytics

Red Dot Analytics (RDA) Pte. Ltd. is a deep tech spin-off from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore that pioneers in the industrial metaverse space.

They envision transforming the applications of AI and digital twin solutions to digitalise, optimise, and automate physical operations and systems for businesses and organisations, beginning with data centres as their beachhead market.

The company is known for its award-winning cognitive twin solution and has been working with well-known data centre operators in the APAC market, ranging from hyperscale to colocation and enterprise data centre customers. Red Dot Analytics was co-founded by a team of professors and researchers from NTU and industry veterans from infrastructure sectors.

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 diverse backgrounds from the sedentary, desk-bound, underserved communities, as well as amateur to professional athletes and performers. The Posture Lab 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.

PriyoShop

PriyoShop is an on-demand B2B marketplace in Bangladesh that empowers retailers by connecting them directly to suppliers to fix the fragmented supply chain.

The company’s platform connects small-scale retailers directly with manufacturers and suppliers. PriyoShop’s app allows small retailers to procure inventory from wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers at competitive rates. When we talk about small businesses, we primarily focus on neighbourhood mom-and-pop shops, also known as retailers. These are the small shops we see around us on our streets. If we talk about the former, 97% of our country’s retail sales take place through them; e-commerce and modern retail play a smaller role. So, the majority of the retail transaction is taking place through neighbourhood shop retailers.

EMPAUWER Pte. Ltd.

Empauwer is an AI-driven platform that helps companies engage and employ​ neurodiverse talents to cultivate a more inclusive workplace. Their vision is a world of equal opportunities where neurodiverse individuals are recognised for their special abilities, not for their disabilities. They created Empauwer to help organisations embrace neurodiversity and create opportunities for neurodiverse professionals to thrive.

BOOQED

BOOQED is a digital platform to empower teams to truly work from anywhere and to help organisations become more agile in their approach to the office.

For many companies, the rise of “work from anywhere” has made office space decisions challenging. With the high cost of renovations and fit-outs, making changes to office layouts to grow or adapt to changes in the organisation is expensive and time-consuming. They also lack relevant data on the usage of their real estate assets to justify and calculate a meaningful ROI. BOOQED simplifies how businesses deal with this process, making it an effortless outsourced tech solution for businesses. Its cutting-edge modular hardware and software platform provides an easy and cost-effective way for companies to create and manage private, flexible work and meeting spaces within their existing offices or buildings.

LOAD2GO

LOAD2GO is an on-demand BIG TRUCK booking platform. Over the past 3 years, the company has achieved 15,000 bookings with a total revenue of USD 4MIL, and more than 3000 drivers and this number is still growing.

LOAD2GO digitises the trucking industry, provides a comprehensive automatic nationwide truck network matching system and achieves the following logistics solutions which have contributed a massive positive impact on society, the economy, and the environment in Malaysia.

A step closer to the 2023 TOP100

After a rigorous screening process, these startups are a step closer to qualifying for this year’s TOP100.

If you are one of the founders of the startups above, a representative from e27 will be reaching out to you soon to discuss with you the next step in your application process. Feel free to get in touch with us for any inquiries.

Also read: Why your startup deserves to take part in the 2023 TOP100

If you have an exciting startup with innovative ideas that can eclipse the best and the brightest in the region, join the 2023 TOP100 and stand a chance to pitch your ideas to some of the top investors in the Asia-Pacific at this year’s Echelon Asia Summit. Register for TOP100 here.

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