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SLINGSHOT 2020 - FINAL RESULTS

After 3 intense days of virtual pitching and hybrid deliberations, SLINGSHOT 2020 successfully concluded on Wednesday, December 9th. As part of the SWITCH x SFF held virtually in Singapore. All top 100 global startup finalists had 2 minutes to present their disruptive ideas to tier-one industry leaders.

Out of those top 100 startups, 10 projects (two per industry) were selected to continue to the final round in which only one grand winner was selected. But it didn't stop there, several prizes to different startups were given by all the sponsors of this year's edition of SLINGSHOT. 
 
BIG congratulations to all startups that were part of this incredible event, the level of disruption and grown-breaking projects we witnessed during this competition was outstanding! Here're the final results:
 
 

1st Runner Up

Prize: 
Cash Prize S$25k  

GyroGear

GyroGear has the ambition to become the only medical device company utilising gyroscopes in the world. The GyroGlove is a wearable that mechanically stabilises uncontrollable hand tremors, bringing instant relief and independence to sufferers.

2nd Runner Up

Prize: 
Cash Prize S$10k 

KeyLess Technologies

Keyless is a deep-tech, cybersecurity company building the world's first privacy-preserving biometric authentication and personal identity management platform.

TOP 10 - Finalist

For each of the Top 2 Startups from the 5 SLINGSHOT industry sectors:
 
S$50K Startup SG Grant 



  • Digital solutions, Consumer products and services

    Billions of consumers today demand relevant recommendations and experiences. Yet banks continue to treat them alike, despite knowing their every transaction.


  • FoodTech & AgriTech

    eggXYt’s CRISPR technology allows non-invasive pre-incubation sex detection in chicken eggs - saving 4 billion male chicks, saving billions of dollars and adding 4 billion eggs to the global supply.


  • HealthTech, BioTech & MedTech

    ELITONE® tones weakened pelvic floor muscles non-invasively, clinically proven to treat stress urinary incontinence in women. The externally-placed technology is discreet, comfortable, and worn under clothing for 20 minutes, making treatment EASY.


  • HealthTech, BioTech & MedTech

    GyroGear has the ambition to become the only medical device company utilising gyroscopes in the world. The GyroGlove is a wearable that mechanically stabilises uncontrollable hand tremors, bringing instant relief and independence to sufferers.


  • Digital solutions, Consumer products and services

    Keyless is a deeptech, cybersecurity company building the world's first privacy-preserving biometric authentication and personal identity management platform.


  • Urban Solutions, Sustainability & Energy

    Lauretta uses existing cameras to infer occupant activity, behavior, and intent. We are used by military, police forces and for social distancing and optimization space in 4 continents since COVID hit


  • Manufacturing, Logistics & Transportation

    NBmaps, the first product of NBai is an AI-powered mapping solution that provides enterprises with customisable features like routing, navigation, direction and distance matrix.


  • FoodTech & AgriTech

    ProAgni is focused on improving economic outcomes for producers, whilst helping the industry tackle key global challenges, such as: food security, antimicrobial resistance, and reducing emissions.


  • Manufacturing, Logistics & Transportation

    We're building tunable lenses with lossless zoom to revolutionize smartphone cameras, among many other optics industries. We’ve built prototype lenses, raised $90k, begun patenting, got 2 LOIs, and scheduled 2 demos with major smartphone companies.


  • Urban Solutions, Sustainability & Energy

    TransferFi is creating the world’s first long-range, safe, and efficient Wireless Power Network (WPN). The vision of TransferFi is to provide access to wireless power to anyone, anywhere at any time.

 

Other SLINGSHOT 2020 awards

Covid-19 Challenge Winner

Prize: 
Cash Prize S$10k sponsored by L'oreal
Startup SG Grant S$50k

Surfly

Surfly provides co-browsing and video chat technology that helps you support remote customers as if you are sitting side-by-side, seamlessly upgrading any conversation from any channel or device

Most Investible Startup Award

Prize: 
Cash Prize S$10k 
 

TeleMedC

TeleMedC provides an affordable suite of intelligent portable hardware & AI-based software solutions for screening eyes in both urban and remote settings. We are saving eyes and improving lives.

 

Audience Choice Award

Prize: 
Razer Book 13 

OCTOPUS

Octopus is a new waste management app that efficiently collects and connect valuable waste to the recycling Industry while doing deep learning analytics to track human daily consumption

 
 

Corporate Challenge Awards

  Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
 
Naluri
 
Naluri is a human-driven, AI-augmented digital chronic disease management program that delivers quantifiable health outcomes and helps healthcare payors save on avoidable healthcare costs
 
STIMSHOP
 
In some places, radio waves don’t work. Instead of wiring, STIMSHOP data over ultrasound technology makes wireless data transfer under any circumstances: explosive, humid, metallic, electrosensitive.

 

 Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Qritive
 
A cancer diagnosis is facing a crisis due to a critical shortage of pathologists. Qritive is building clinically-validated AI to dramatically increase the capacity of pathology labs.
 

  Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Vizzio Technologies
 
We have built an automated AI platform consisted of hardware + software for 3D capture, model computation, accurate geospatial analytics & visualisation using GPU-embedded AI deep learning machines.

 Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Noodle Factory
 
A Conversational AI platform built for learning and development. We use NLP to automate curation of content into conversations, enabling instant learner engagement, and helping educators work faster.