In this 12 months’s version, the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) hosted by Enterprise Singapore, was held as a full in-person convention at Resorts World Convention Centre in Singapore from 25 to twenty-eight October 2022. It options two parts: the Year-Long Innovation Programme and Flagship Event.
SWITCH Flagship Event 2022
Following the Year-Long Innovation Programme, which has offered company programmes and year-round networking alternatives since July, the SWITCH Flagship Event featured a hybrid convention and exhibition that brings start-ups, SMEs, MNCs, traders, analysis institutes, multipliers, and authorities organizations collectively.
It additionally featured three curated tracks, together with SWITCH Beyond, SWITCH Global, and SLINGSHOT 2022, showcasing thrilling improvements and collaborative prospects.
SLINGSHOT 2022 is an exhilarating world pitching competitors that amazed the viewers as the highest 50 world start-ups vied for the highest prize through the grand finals.
The Grand Winner of SLINGSHOT 2022 obtained S$200,000 Start-up SG Grant, a further S$50,000 Start-up SG Grant, and 18 months of rent-free area at Launchpad, courtesy of JTC.
SLINGSHOT 2022
Peter Ong | Chairman of Enterprise Singapore giving the opening remarks for the SLINGSHOT 2022 Grand Finals
SLINGSHOT 2022 graced the SWITCH Flagship Event. The intense deep tech start-up competitors challenged 50 start-ups in 5 rising domains to showcase their game-changing options and merchandise on the SLINGSHOT Domain and Grand Finals. The prime 50 start-ups have been shortlisted from over 3,600 candidates throughout greater than 150 nations.
They have been launched to potential traders and company companions with whom they could co-pilot a undertaking, in addition to to business-specific choices and the Singapore panorama, to assist them perceive clearly the viability of building and constructing their firm in Singapore.
Okay-STARTUP Pavilion
The Okay-Startup Center Singapore is the primary Korean start-up supporting platform established in Southeast Asia. It is operated by the Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME), which performs a significant function as a Launchpad for Korean SMEs and Start-ups incorporating into the start-up ecosystem in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
KISED (Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development) is a public establishment beneath the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, and is accountable for startup promotion. KISED has already supported greater than 60,000 startups because it was established in 2008.
The Okay-Startup Center Singapore and KISED each hosted and helped for the 20 Korean startups to be a part of SWITCH 2022 and take part in SLINGSHOT 2022.
Both establishments have been additionally there on Okay-STARTUP Demo Day, held on 26 October 2002, whereby every firm had two minutes to pitch their thought to potential traders and company companions.
The 20 Korean start-ups that participated at Okay-STARTUP Pavilion are the next:
- AimbeLAB
- AIZEN Global
- Barun Bio
- CakepLabs
- CESeL Primus
- Coconut Silo
- DABIDA
- Doomoolmori
- DRIMAES
- GoQba Technology
- Lighters Company
- Meissa
- MicrobiotiX
- Monnit Korea
- MORAI
- Nuvilab
- Quota Lab
- RetiMark
- Sunny Side Up
- VideoMonster
Three of them superior to the SLINGSHOT Top 50 as semifinalists, particularly AimbeLAB, CakepLabs, and VideoMonster. CakepLabs and VideoMonster have been beneath the area of Consumer Media, Goods and Services, whereas AimbeLAB was beneath Environment, Energy and Green Technology.
AimbeLAB
Sein Kwon | Global Business Team Director of Aimbe LAB
Aimbelab Inc. supplies a complete and revolutionary livestock feed administration knowledge resolution known as Myfeed, which improves the feed monitoring, managing, ordering, logistics, stock, supply, and knowledge utilization processes for livestock farms and feed corporations.
It consists of Feed measuring IOT system (Feed Manager), Real-time feed-monitoring smartphone app (Myfeed), and Inventory and gross sales administration ERP. The key advantages AimbeLAB affords to corporations and farms embody a 10-minute self-installable system, 1/4 the worth of opponents’ options, and supply, labor, and CO2 discount.
CakepLabs
Joohyun Oh (Peter Oh) | CEO of CakepLabs
Focusing on Financial Technology (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) growth, CakepLabs affords an app known as Chaca Market, offering native service for neighborhoods 12 kilometers away, in addition to neighborhood options, all without spending a dime.
They intention to ship the simplest, quickest, most secure, and highest high quality resolution for Fintech. About 250,000 customers in 2,160 native villages in Indonesia are utilizing Chaca Market. CakepLabs can be planning to open the app for different Southeast Asian nations in 2023.
VideoMonster
Taylor Joo | Global Team Leader of VideoMonster
VideoMonster affords ViiV, a one-tap AI Vlog Maker that permits customers to create or edit movies effectively. By merely taking some clips and clicking “ready to edit,” ViiV will produce a vlog in only one minute, which is 100 occasions sooner than the guide course of. This is an informative and artistic strategy to create completely different video content material.
The real-time location-tagging characteristic allows ViiV to concurrently show detailed itineraries and spot info on vlogs synced with Google Maps. It will also be linked to on-line journey companies, permitting customers to make reservations instantly via ViiV. Users can monetize their content material because the saved uncooked clips might be channeled to the digital content material marketplaces.
SLINGSHOT 2022’s Grand Winner
Peptobiotics has emerged as SLINGSHOT 2022’s Grand Winner. They re-engineered nature’s most revolutionary anti-pathogen protection programs to be used as livestock well being merchandise. On the opposite hand, E3A Healthcare received the first Runner Up and Wasna because the 2nd Runner Up, respectively.