[tyro : a person who has just started learning or doing something : a beginner or novice]

Epicurio

 

Epicurio aims to be the #1 Asian Social Wine & Spirit App. The spirit of this app is taste, friendship and popularity. It is a social market place in wine and spirit which solve the pain that people feel when they try to decide what to buy and where to go to get wine or spirit.

 

Epicurio’s solution is a platform where users select wines with confidence based on their friends’ recommendations and expert suggestions then buy hassle-free on the go and get delivered for free. It offers a selection of more than 1200 wines and spirits curated, imported and stored by a network of cellar shops and distributors.

 

More than a shop Epicurio shares real-life experiences and offers information, to fulfil users’ accomplishment in their wine & spirit knowledge through community learning, updates and sharing. 

 

 

Styletribute

 

StyleTribute.com is the new destination to sell & buy pre-loved designer fashion, authenticated and curated. Its purpose is to enable high-end fashion lovers to sell their designer items in a hassle-free way and fashionistas to purchase luxury items they otherwise couldn’t afford. StyleTribute’s vision is to revolutionize the second-hand fashion industry by combining the premium shopping experience and assortment of Net-a-porter with the convenience and user-friendliness of a marketplace solution like Airbnb.

 

 

Tate & Tonic

 

Shopping for clothes is a painful process for most people, especially for men. Through their uniquely personalized approach & technology, Tate & Tonic is building a new model of retail that makes shopping simple and hassle-free.

 

They ship to their male audience a box with a curated selection of clothes, chosen with a mix of proprietary algorithms and human picking, guaranteeing to each of their users a unique customer experience.  The customer keeps the items he likes and returns the rest, free of charge. Tate & Tonic takes care of the rest.

 

 

GoRaydar

 

Current methods of finding the stock photos that the user wants consumes a lot of time as there are too many sites and filter functions that are not effective. GoRaydar helps users funnel options and find what they want through immediate user feedback.

 

 

 

Healint

 

Current methods of taking health history are inefficient and getting accurate snapshots of chronic illness conditions is ineffective. Healint is a platform that provides 360 analytics on patient care to doctors so that they can better diagnose and improve patient’s chronic conditions.

 

 

Protégé

 

Current mentorship programmes have a time-consuming and laborious process to match mentors & mentees – everything is done manually. In turn, these matches may not turn out to be effective (eg: different objectives, interests and schedules etc), causing relationships to fail.

 

Programme administrators lack visibility into the progress of relationships, and are usually kept in the dark about important issues until it is too late. Protégé provides a platform which allows convenient and hassle-free matching of mentors & mentees in the most suitable pairings, and track the progress & deliverables of the relationship.

 

 

Taggle

 

The objective of the Taggle is to provide a sustainable and cost-viable wellness solution for other healthcare games to be added in. Through this platform, it offers a wide range of wellness and health related apps and/or games by tapping on the potential of international crowdsourcing. It is also a platform where new innovative solutions such as wearable technologies, sensor technologies could be built on. In addition, Taggle platform would be able to collect data for individual and community for policy makers that could shape communities and individuals whom would like to improve their own personal situation.

 

 

 

KungFu Math

 

Kungfu-math.com is an Online Mathematics Enrichment Portal created to enrich and motivate students in the learning of Mathematics and improve their mathematics score. The portal is embedded with exciting games, enthusing pupils to deepen their understanding of mathematical concepts and sharpen their mathematics problem solving skills. The fun features of the portal motivate pupils to constantly practise and reinforce their understanding of mathematical concepts in a self-directed learning environment in school or at home.

 

Its comprehensive curriculum is based on the Singapore PSLE Math Syllabus which is easily customized into various International Syllabi. Questions are self-generating and unlimited from Grade 1 to 6. Kungfu-math.com’s system profile users and determine their academic strengths and weaknesses and generate the right questions for them to practise on. Kungfu-math.com effectively caters to every users' individual learning competency and improve on their scores. Users stay engaged without adults prompting them to do so.

 

 

PlaceMatch

 

Placematch is an online marketplace that allows owners, agents and expats to connect and transact long term accommodation rentals. This is a pain-point for over 20 million domestic and international expats and nearly 10 million home-owners across metropolitan cities of Asia. Although listing websites help get the process started, the large part of the user journey falls offline and is plagued by time delays, poor experiences, and are largely scam-prone. Placematch optimizes the user journey for speed, user experience and transparency, and allows expats to be accurately matched to properties for a pleasant, safe and secure experience.

 

 

 

CallLevels

 

Call Levels reduces live asset price­tracking to a single function: it sends users push notifications when an asset hits a price level, or "call level" set by the users beforehand, either as an entry point, or to take a loss or profit.  Call Levelst will also provide snapshots for quick market analysis based on the customised alerts tracked by users. The app can be downloaded for free on iOS devices from the Apple iTunes Store. The Android version will be available in early 2015.

 

 

 

StartMyGig

 

Startmygig, is a developing pre-payment site to help concert promoters, musical artists and fan determine demand and ticket pricing of a concert in Asia-Pacific with a ticket platform that utilizes pre-paid pledging. It is a fan-funded pre-payment platform for fans to bring their favourite bands and artists to Asia-Pacific. It caters for i) promoters want to bring bands to Singapore but are unsure how strong demand will be, and ii) fans want bands to come to Singapore but are traditionally unable to pledge their interest directly with promoters

 

 

qlc.io

 

qlc is a career and lifestyle discovery platform for the restless millennial. Over 100 million millennials will change jobs 12 to 20 times over the course of their careers. They seek purpose and passion; they seek challenge and change. But existing career sites have not kept up with the personalized engagement that millennials expect.

 

qlc offers millennials a way to test-drive and sample their next career move through short term, flexible and remote programs. It could be a job at a startup; it could be volunteering with a nonprofit; it could even be a year off to travel and find themselves.

 

It reinvents career discovery for the mobile web, with user reviews, visual navigation, predictive recommendations, and a try-before-you-buy model, serving ambitious, global twenty-somethings wanting to relocate.

 

 

 

LongCube

 

LongCube provides software that supports the creation of secured private cloud. It solves the problem where currently users are not able to manage data residing in multiple devices and those hosted on the cloud.

 

LongCube provides the users with an easy to use management centre on their personal computer for their all data. It can help users to securely store, synchronise, manage and share their data in computers and mobile devices. LongCube also provides a way for users to back-up their files in their computer and other electronic products to their own portable hard disk encrypted using private keys set by the users.

 

 

Cialfo

Cialfo makes the college application process simple and efficient. It has become extremely stressful for students to navigate through the highly competitive and complex college applications. The various application requirements and deadlines only add to this complexity. Cialfo’s web/mobile platform combines all the resources the students need in one place, enabling them to ace the SAT test and get into their dream college with minimal effort.

 

Cialfo’s first product, Get-a-Plan, gamifies the learning process for the SAT test.  It has over 5000 users for this including some paying customers. Over the last 2 years, It has helped over 200 students to get into their dream colleges, 60% of which have been to top 20 US/UK universities (when the acceptance rate is 5-15% in such colleges) and made over $800,000 in revenue while doing so. Cialfo recently graduated from Blackbox Connect 2014, a Silicon Valley based accelerator program, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs and were listed among 20 hottest start-ups in Singapore 2014.

 

 

FundedByMe

 

FundedByMe was built to address the need for a user-friendly crowdfunding solution for entrepreneurs and everyday investors. FundedByMe is one of the first crowdfunding platforms in the world to offer both reward-based and equity crowdfunding. The platform has a major focus on cross-border investments that benefit both entrepreneurs and investors to assist with job creation and economic growth.

 

Armchair VC’s can get onboard the startup train and help find and fund great businesses through equity crowdfunding platforms. With many professional venture capitalists using crowdfunding as a mode of validation and a source of proof of concept, it will not be long before equity crowdfunding too shows its mettle.

 

 

Source Sage

 

In the commodities business, the most important piece of information that one can possess is what the other parties buy/sell price is. Source Sage intends to solve this with a proprietary algorithim that crowdsources and democratises these data points sources from a variety of trusted and verifiable outlets and crunch it down into its salient points.

 

While this market is like any other mature financial sector with their huge multinational conglomerates – there exists a large number of smaller but nimbler individual players with neither the financial nor material clout of the big boys – this is where Source Sage comes in to level the playing field. Accurate and up-to-the minute data means that the tables have suddenly evened out, having a bigger war chest does not mean being the most informed, and in a business where information is king, source sage is the king maker. 

 

 

 

BookQuickly

 

Consumers are faced with a number of issues before deciding to go to a local service – discovering services, especially close to your

current location, is a hassle and there is a fundamental lack of authentic reviews. Most troubling of all, booking an appointment can be incredibly difficult as businesses generally tend to be busy and as a result, do not pick up their phones and 24/7 booking is not simply not possible. Merchants do not have the required skills to attract and retain customers and they generally suffer from poor business during off-peak hours.

 

BookQuickly solves both sets of problems by providing a mobile app that lets consumers book appointments at the best local services 24/7 as well as empowering merchants to promote and sell their unfilled time slots on our mobile app to new clients searching for their business with the help of our proprietary Dynamic Pricing Algorithm..

 

 

The Singapore Receivables Exchange

 

The Singapore Receivables Exchange (SGRecX) offers a platform for the sale and purchase of accounts receivables. The platform connects qualified institutional investors with SMEs. Enterprises benefit in form of more flexible liquidity management options, mitigated credit risk and enhanced balance sheet management. Qualified institutional investors benefit in form of higher risk-adjusted short-term yields over traditional money market investments. 

 

 

Lomotif

 

Lomotif allows users to transform moments captured on their mobile devices into meaningful short music videos, optimised for social sharing. As an amateur-friendly tool, it takes only minutes to create and share a Lomotif, providing instant gratification for casual users who share content frequently.

 

 

Click-Storm

 

Click-Storm is a global web-platform for eSports casual gamers -- a market with 250 million users that grows by 25% in a year. Click-Storm has already partnered with some major game publishers in Asia and Europe to cross market its state of the art games tournament and social community platform.

 

Click-Storm combines social network and matchmaking mechanism and helps to reach and engage more gamers. Its main value is a combination of user base and connected publishers/developers.

 

 

Novelsys

 

Novelsys is a technology startup creating innovative products and solutions to power the world around us. Novelsys’ first consumer product is Ampere, the smart wireless charging phone sleeve set to reinvent the mobile charging experience. It solves the problem of insufficient battery life and bridge the current solution gaps. Ampere offers a better mobile charging experience through wireless charging, a control and monitor feature, and a premium leather sleeve for phone protection. Launched on Kickstarter on 15 Jan 2015, Ampere is on track to meet the needs of consumers. Besides Ampere, it is also developing Juice, positioned to be Asia’s first charging network. 

 

 

 

Jublia Pte. Ltd.

 

Jublia is an event-based, networking platform for fellow event attendees to reach out to each other. Only 28% of all name cards collected at events are acted upon after it has concluded, the rest are irrelevant. The biggest challenge events face is generating meetings that matter.

 

Jublia knows how much work it takes to plan a great event, and puts that same level of dedication into developing its technology to very personally suit each specific event’s networking needs and enhance event networking potential.

 

Jublia has a suite of two products, namely SENSE, which is an an analytics dashboard that allows organizers qualify ROI of exhibitors and delegates, gauge the health of your event as well as deliver superior control over data, and MATCH, which allows event attendees to connect via MATCH Concierge, which is a powerful tool that amplifies connections relevant to you to boost quality of meetings.

 

 

Kover Pte. Ltd.

 

Kover's vision is to enable privacy across the world’s social networks. Its business is sharing fearlessly because privacy matters. Kover is a mobile application for private sharing, based on an encryption platform that gives users complete control over what they share, who they share it with and how long content exists without concern for surveillance or data mining.   

 

What a person shares on Kover, nobody can uncover - not Kover, not third parties, or even governments.  When a user deletes a Kover, the user’s content inside the Kover are deleted forever from our databases and all mobile devices.

 

Kover extends private sharing across Facebook today and will do the same with all major social networks as part of our roadmap.  The business model of data mining for large social networks is not going away.  Kover provides the solution for privacy when you want it from within your current social landscape.  

 

 

sgFixIt LLP

 

When it comes to fixing the pipes or repainting the walls, people do not really care who does it. They just want the job to be done well and at a reasonable price and relatively hassle-free.

 

Currently, they use Google or print media (e.g. Greenbook). But there are so many service providers and no way to differentiate the good service providers from the bad ones. It is also costly for service providers to advertise their services and difficult to differentiate themselves from other.

 

sgFixIt solves this problem by adding crowd-sourced ratings and reviews to the online directory. We will also enhance user and service provider experience through our real-time online booking system and appointment management system. This will be supplemented with a call centre to provide added support and reduce the hassle for the users who just wants to have a service provider sent to their home.