Why Corporate-Startup Relationships in Southeast Asia Are Different
Joyce Tay, Chief Strategy Officer of StartupX, tells Yaniv Corem at the The School of Innovation why Southeast Asia needs to look at corporate innovation with a different lens, and the biggest misunderstanding people have about corporate-startup relationships.
WASTE 20/20 winner Magorium shares how it intends to save SEA with its plastic recycling solution
Soon after being announced as the winner of Singapore’s waste-tech startup competition WASTE 20/20, organised by StartupX in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and The Incubation Network, e27 decided to interview Magorium co-founder Chu Xian to find out more about its vision.
This Singapore start-up hopes to make roads with plastic waste
Magorium, founded in mid-2019, breaks down shopping bags, bottles and other plastic trash into a material that can partially replace the tar-like, oil-based bitumen in the mixture used to build regular roads.
Health-tech start-up SenzeHub uses wearables to monitor patients’ condition
Health-tech start-up SenzeHub develops wearables that monitor patients’ vital signs such as heart rate and temperature. These devices help flag any deterioration in the user’s condition and provide an early alert for emergencies.
Inaugural Waste-Tech Startup Competition WASTE 20/20 Crowns Local Startup, Magorium, as Champion
The inaugural Singapore waste-tech startup competition, WASTE 20/20, hosted by StartupX, and in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and The Incubation Network, today officially crowns local waste-technology startup Magorium as the grand winner. With their proprietary technology that converts plastic into high quality asphalt premix used for road construction, Magorium managed to stand out among tough […]
Agri-Tech Asia: These 9 Sustainable Startups Are Fixing Our Food Systems
Without further ado, below is a round-up of the startups hailing from all over Asia who are slated to pitch at the Summit next month and the disruptive technologies that they’re bringing to the table.
Innovative ideas take flight at the 5th P.A.K. Challenge
Coming in second place with a prize of $12,000 was Team Augmentus from National University of Singapore (NUS) with their idea of a unified and code-free industrial robot programming software enabling non-technical users to develop and deploy robots with high speed and accuracy. https://www.augmentus.tech
Meet the Asia-Pacific innovators shaking up the agri-food system
Accelerating innovation in supply chain resilience, urban food systems, alternative proteins and affordable nutrition, a powerhouse of dynamic early stage start-ups from the Asia-Pacific region will pitch their ground-breaking technologies at this year’s virtual Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit on November 18-20.
Singapore startup launches instant rooftop solar assessment tool
Solar AI Technologies has launched a free online solar assessment tool that lets homeowners and building occupants in Singapore instantly find out the solar potential of their roof and how much they can save.
This 26-Year-Old Started A Dating Service In Singapore
Like many Singaporean millennials, Lee Jing Lin once thought online dating would be the solution to finding love in this digital age.
Accredify, SGInnovate partner to launch Digital Health Passport that will accelerate travel post-COVID-19
The passport will allow individuals to store their medical information –including COVID-19 testing and vaccination reports digitally signed by accredited bodies.
Suntec Lays Off Half Its Workforce – How Long Can The Industry Cope With No Events In S’pore?
Nearly half the workforce of Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SICEC) will be retrenched. Suntec Singapore jointly announced the news with the Building Construction And Timber Industries Employees’ Union (BATU) yesterday (28 August).
Coronavirus: Tracking workers’ health with mobile apps, wearable devices
Massive effort to ensure safety made possible with use of mobile apps, wearable devices.
To cut down the cost of building robotic systems, Augmentus enables people to create one using an iPad
Founded by student entrepreneurs at NUS, this startup aims to create the “Canva for robotic systems”.
Digitalising Hackathons: How The “Hack” They’re Going Online, And What To Expect
Hackathons seem to have disappeared from Singapore’s start-up scene since the outbreak of Covid-19 earlier this year.