SLINGSHOT 2021 - Deeptech startup pitching competition

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 SLINGSHOT 2021 - FINAL RESULTS

 
After 3 intense days of virtual pitching and hybrid deliberations, SLINGSHOT 2021 successfully concluded on Wednesday, November 10th. As part SWITCH 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, 12 projects (three 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 were outstanding! Here a recap of our event:
 

TOP 12 - Finalist

The Top 3 Startups from the 4 SLINGSHOT industry sectors will be awarded:
 
S$50K Startup SG Grant 
 
 

  • Sustainability

    Allozymes applies its proprietary microfluidic technology to generate 10M data set and develop custom-designed enzymes and microbes for cleaner and sustainable manufacturing of natural products.


  • Health & Wellness

    Biorithm: Femom is a comprehensive maternity care platform to improve perinatal outcomes through mobile technology and data science.


  • Health & Wellness

    Braingrade is developing a brain co-processor, the next-generation brain-machine interface to enhance human cognition. As its first indication, the company is targeting Alzheimer’s Disease.


  • Smart Cities

    Datakrew is a deep-tech startup with strong roots in IoT, AI & data security. Our no-code, scalable IoT platform expedites enterprise IoT projects by 500x, with turn-key implementation in < 48 hours.


  • Health & Wellness

    Quantumcyte has developed an AI-integrated tissue dissection solution for modern pathology, that provides deep insights to patients' diseases, who would have been missed, otherwise.


  • Frontier Digital Technologies

    ReverseAds is a keyword advertising platform for the open web, built to compete directly against Google Ads. It allows businesses to run cookie-less hyper-targeted ads and pay only for genuine traffic


  • Sustainability

    SOURCE Hydropanels make drinking water using only sunlight and air as input. Using circular bottling to serve hotels in Singapore and ASEAN, we can reduce water and plastic waste.


  • Sustainability

    SunGreenH2 is developing advanced nanostructured materials to build the world’s highest performance water electrolyzers that utilize renewable power to produce low cost green hydrogen.


  • Frontier Digital Technologies

    TransSiP breakthrough in electronic noise solved a long-felt and unsolved need for power conversion, significantly improving battery life, sensors, and systems performance by our 1M devices shipped.


  • Smart Cities

    ViAct: Our AI solution automates construction monitoring to improve safety and productivity in the job site.


  • Frontier Digital Technologies

    VisualCamp, the winner of the 2021 Glomo Award, provides eye-tracking software that lets you understand users while providing them with eye control on virtually any device without extra hardware.


  • Smart Cities

    Vixsystem: Lysa is an assistive technology for the visually impaired. Lysa is Brazilian, autonomous or teleoperated, has a navigation algorithm, pattern and image recognition, sensors to avoid obstacles.

Sponsored Prizes

 Prize:

JTC is providing 12 months of rent-free space at LaunchPad
 
Allozymes
Augmented Human Technologies
Biorithm
CYFIRMA
Datakrew
Eiko Techno Corporation
FathomX
Lifetrack Medical Systems
Protos Labs
RoPlus
SunGreenH2
Umami Meats
 

  Prize:
S$20,000 cash prize courtesy of P&G
 
Vidcare Innovations
 
Easy to use do-it-yourself diagnostic test for consumers at home. Patent-pending technology provides quantitative results without using any electronic reader.

 Prize:

S$20,000 cash prize courtesy of SECOM
 
QuantumCyte
 
Quantumcyte has developed an AI-integrated tissue dissection solution for modern pathology, that provides deep insights to patients' diseases, who would have been missed, otherwise.

  Prize:
S$10,000 cash prize courtesy of Cargill
 
LogMeal
 
LOGMEAL, the shazam for food with only one picture and our artificial intelligence you can get all nutritional information on your mobile.
 
 

  Prize:
$10,000 cash prize courtesy of The Yield Lab
 
Wittaya Aqua
 
At Wittaya Aqua, our mission is to help you save time and money by making your data work for you.

Corporate Challenge Awards

  Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Smart Tradzt
 
Realtime Shipment Tracking, Predicted ETA, Collaboration with Transportation Providers to capture planned, revised ETD/ETA & transit change, Shipment Milestones status tracking, incoterm logic.


 

 Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Enroute
 
A personalized, location-based commerce and loyalty SDK for mobility apps, allowing passengers to ride for FREE as they shop click&collect.
 

  Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
FathomX
 
Top AI Algorithm (as validated by US White House) for detecting breast cancer that can be implemented into existing hardware and be used in teleradiology.

 Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Aegis Packaging
 
A Manufacturer ultra-high barrier water-based coatings allowing sustainable/recyclable mono-material packaging to viable replacements to multi-material packagings.

 Prize:
S$30,000 Startup SG grant
 
Zero Cow Factory
 
A producer of milk proteins using bioengineering the microbes & microbial fermentation.