SLINGSHOT 2024 - Deep tech startup pitching competition

Calling all startups: Asia’s most exciting deep tech startup pitching competition is back!

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SLINGSHOT 2024 - FINAL RESULTS

It’s a wrap! Our Top 50 finalists pitched their game changing innovations on the global stage at the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) which ended on 30 October 2024.

Prominent industry leaders and market experts who made up our judging panel selected 10 startups that advanced to the Grand Finals, where the Top 3 winners were crowned for this year’s edition. Heartiest congratulations to the champions of our Domain and Grand Finals!

A big thank you to all startups for being part of what made SLINGSHOT 2024 a success, and our team is in the midst of bringing you 2025’s edition of SLINGSHOT, Enterprise Singapore’s global deep tech startup competition! Click here to register your interest for SLINGSHOT 2025.

Congratulations to the Runner Ups!

1st Runner Up

Prize:
S$150,000 Startup SG grant prize
12 months’ rent-free space at LaunchPad

2nd Runner Up

Prize:

S$100,000 Startup SG grant prize
6 months’ rent-free space at LaunchPad

TOP 10 Finalists

The Top 2 Global Startups from the 5 SLINGSHOT domains will be awarded:

S$50,000 StartupSG Grant Prize

Consumer Media, Goods and Services

Ariadne provides physical organizations with comprehensive and detailed real-time customer and visitor analysis for the optimization of the operation of their stores and better customer service.

Consumer Media, Goods and Services

Umami Bioworks is developing an automated production platform for cultivated, 'not caught' seafood. Integrating stem cell biology, machine learning, and automation, we create the "Intel Inside" of cultivated fish production.

Environment, Energy and Green Technologies

Novac develops a shapeable solid-state supercapacitor, a high power energy-storage system, that can be embedded into the structure of any electric vehicle or satellite thus saving space and increasing safety.

Environment, Energy and Green Technologies

Matwerkz Technologies designs Thermorphous materials to enhance the safety and efficiency of batteries. They provide excellent heat dissipation at normal battery working temperatures, but quickly transforms into a fire protection barrier when the battery catches fire.

Health and Biomedical

SONIRE is developing an ultrasound-guided HIFU therapy system to treat an intractable cancer like pancreatic cancer. Now, we are conducting a randomized trial for pancreatic cancer in Japan, and also we start a clinical trial in the U.S. soon.

Health and Biomedical

STEMDEN developed a tooth dentin that can regenerate and tooth decay can be healed back naturally at an exponentially faster rate. The paradigm in dental industry will forever change in our generation from replacement therapy to regeneration therapy.

Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity

Leveraging deep learning technology, MENOU enables businesses to automate and streamline their inspection processes without the need for specialized personnel. Our user-friendly platform, MENOU-TE, allows companies to deploy AI inspection.

Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity

Holdson develops a post processing technology to enable the adoption of additive manufacturing for metal components in advanced manufacturing sectors such as med-tech, aerospace, green technologies and many more.

Transformative Digital Technologies

EinProt accelerates protein evolution through AI: our protein LLM generates digital twins for every protein (alt- sequences, similar structure yet better performance) to define Synth Bio 3.0 and reshape the future of medicine, sustainability and beyond.

Transformative Digital Technologies

Blumind is bringing machine-learning inferencing to the Far Edge, placing it on devices and sensors in all environments. Blumind’s patented analog semiconductor inferencing engine slashes power consumption, latency and silicon area.

SLINGSHOT 2024 PARTNER COMPETITION WINNERS

Winners will be awarded S$20,000 StartupSG Grant Prize.

Health and Biomedical

Partner Competition: JUMPSTARTER 2025

Allegrow Biotech is a biotechnology company that aims to bring quality and cost-effective cell therapeutic products to patients through AimGel Technology, their innovation that supports cell generation, meeting the needs of both research and clinical applications.

Health and Biomedical

Partner Competition: MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific 2024

Qritive provides AI-powered diagnostic solutions designed to improve speed, accuracy, and consistency in cancer diagnosis. Our platform helps pathologists and laboratories reduce slide reading time by up to 90%, while minimizing bias by 82%. By integrating into clinical workflows, we support pathologists in delivering faster, more reliable results for patients. With deployments across institutions in Singapore, the USA, India, and other regions, Qritive is helping to advance diagnostic care.

Health and Biomedical

Partner Competition: OLYMPUS APAC Innovation Program

Health and Biomedical

Partner Competition: Hatch's open innovation challenge

SpectraCann is building the world's first rapid onsite drug screening test, with unmatched speed, reliability, and accessibility!

Transformative Digital Technologies

Partner Competition: HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Competition

Rigpa.AI is developing the next-gen AI chip to accelerate future AGI applications by 10x better performance with a friction of cost.

Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity

Partner Competition: A*STAR Advanced Manufacturing Startup Challenge

Factorem is Southeast Asia's first AI-driven cloud platform to order custom manufactured parts ON-DEMAND. With Factorem, anyone can reduce time-to-market and get low volume, high quality parts from a highly vetted network of factories in Southeast Asia.

Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity

Partner Competition: NAMIC Start-Up Innovation Forum 2024

Syenta makes tools that manufacture advanced packaging for semiconductor chips 100x faster