Open Category

Avetics

Avetics Pte Ltd is a company that focuses on UAV development for non-military applications. Our first market is aerial mapping which has applications in surveillance, monitoring and planning.

Semantics3

Semantics3 makes structured data from the web easily accessible for software application development and analytics by means of a web-based API.

GPallets Builder

GPallets Builder creates, delivers and captures values in a truly sustainable way. It is the way to deliver commercial success, within environmental limits, while delivering products and services that improve people’s quality of life.

Humus

Humus is a company that leverages a patented technology to produce high grade, natural, unique colour silk in an environmentally friendly and efficient manner. Humus strives to put the needs and well-being of the people it serves at the forefront. This includes its customers, employees, world community, partners and shareholders. Humus believes in setting new standards on quality of silk production while providing employment opportunities in developing countries in a responsible manner. Unlike the typical agro-based business, Humus employs continuous innovation to satisfy evolving and unmet customer needs.

Referoll

Referoll.com makes it easy for market research companies to recruited the needed respondents for their research studies. Using social media tool and data matching techniques, recruitment of specific respondents can be made faster and more precise.

Start Now

Start Now is Singapore first volunteerism advocacy social enterprise. We actively engage schools, companies and non-profit organisations to grow volunteerism and social responsibility in Singapore.

Youth Category

Gourmet Guru

We understand the importance of retaining traditional crusine by passing it in to the next generation. This transition of knowledge can be made more meaningful by engaging the less fortunate or needy people in Singapore, especially the elderly.

Niar_B

Just a fellow Developing and Implementing ideas, which is the important bit!
With one of the boldest as the first – brain technologies to enhance the brain and possibly treat Brain Dysfunctions such as Autism, ADHD, stress, dyslexia and many more.

Tumeric Dynamic

4 Students, 1 Curry. Or rather, lots of Curry.

Captivaid

Captivaid looks forward to a future where badly designed slides become a thing of the past.
Clarity at its best.
The aim is to establish a local and accessible service for aspiring speakers and presenters to achieve their full potential with the use of visual aids.

GoldPlus

Team leader and highly motivated participant to challenge the relentless oil prices, car hardware limitation and engine care.
Seek to market the solution of using natural processed oil, in this case, palm oil to augment normal fuel, diesel and petrol to all vehicles.
It will alleviate oil costs by stretching distance travel with same petrol amount, increase Horsepower for the racing lifestyle and in return cause no damage to the engine.

Mos Calceus

Mos Calceus start on the idea to target youths and young adults who wish to buy a pair of shoes, customized and suited to their needs. Our shoes are customisable in 3 parts, first the shoe body frame, second the different function of insoles and thirdly, the add-on modules that will provide more function to the shoe. We are also able to detach shoes and re-attach them back. Therefore, if any part of a customer’s shoes are broken (e.g. soles worn out, a hole in a body of a shoe, etc.), we are able to detach the broken part of the shoe and re-attach a new part. Therefore, this concept that we adopted, enables customers to recycle their shoes.

This year, Start-up@Singapore (S@S), Singapore’s largest business plan competition, received executive summaries from up to 275 teams and 1100 participants – a record number in its 13 year-old history! Among these enterprising hopefuls, a total of 52 teams from the Open, Youth and SE/Co-op categories were shortlisted and brought together for the annual Biz-Clinic session on 16 March. To prepare them for the challenges ahead, semi-finalists were treated to a series of lectures on Financing, Pitching, Marketing and Intellectual property. Semi-finalists were also given the unique opportunity to improve their business plans through individual consultations with guest mentors.

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Speakers (in no order of merit)

• Dr Alex Lin – Entrepreneur-in-Residence of NTU Ventures Pte Ltd, Executive Director, Visonedge Ventures Group Pte Ltd
• Mr. Jonathan Kwan – Owner and Principal, Kwantum Leap Career Coaching.
• Mr. Allan Lim – Senior VP (Business Development), SilverLake Ltd
• Mr Sourabh Sharma – Co-founder and CEO, Milaap
• Mr, George Hwang – Associate Director, LAWHUN LLC

Mentors (in no order of merit)

• Mr Mark Lee – Partner, Eden Strategy Institute LLP
• Ms Grace Sai – Co-Founder and CEO, The Hub Singapore
• Mr Choo Jin Kiat – Executive Director, O’Joy Care Services
• Ms Vivian Claire Liew – Founding Director, PhilantropyWorks
• Ms Jean Soh – Founder and Manager, Aamor Pte Ltd
• Dr M. Prakash Hande – Associate Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Mr Edward Chia – Co-founder, Timbre Group
• Mrs Tay Mee Lee – Integrated Health Information Systems
• Dr Yoong Siew Lee – Director, Clinical Planning and Development
• Mr Chan Khai Leok, Partner, CRC Group Pte Ltd
• Mr Kristav Childress – Managing Director, Kris Consulting
• Mr Lee Han Kiat – Vice President Outsourcing Sales, Asia Pacific, IBM
• Mr Tony Tan Lay Thiam – Co-founder & Managing Director, SmartLab Education Group
• Mr Gan Thiam Boon – Consultant, Copper Perkins
• Mr Harry Lee – Manager, Singapore National Co-operative Federation

Open Category

• Semantics3
• BizNinjas
• Avetics
• Hummus
• NPH
• Umbrella
• Fab Fit
• Nyleve Inc
• Gpallets Builder
• Cleano ventions
• RMV
• Plantrac
• AceTech
• SKREEN
• Referoll
• Taskbook123
• GreenDot
• IKnowRight
• InstaX
• Splink
• Towards IT Technology
• Shock minus
• MadeByMe
• Bru Innov Edu
• SocialDeal Brunei

Youth Category

• CustoMee
• TransMedi
• LoveLife
• Tumeric_Dynamic
• Mos Calceus
• GoldPlus
• The Big Picture
• Rainology
• Niar B
• Verdure

SE/CO-OP Open Category

• E4PID Cooperative
• Heels Academy
• Agrinet
• Bagosphere
• BambooBee
• Sidewalk Gallery Café
• Silver Horizon Travel Cooperative
• StartNow

SE/CO-OP Youth Category

• Makan Heros
• Papyrus
• RISE
• Graceful Kids
• LaNouvelle
• Ungovernable
• Urbane
• YAR

Calling all budding entrepreneurs – the moment you have all been waiting for is finally here! The 13^th S@S business plan competition has been declared open, and in spectacular fashion at that.

On the 6^th of October, the Hon Sui Sen auditorium was abuzz with excitement as a full-house audience comprising students and members of the public eagerly awaited the opening of the 13^th S@S business plan competition. Despite the rainy weather, the evening’s programme did not disappoint.

Why entrepreneurship? What’s the right time to launch a product? What if a potential entrepeneur lacks funds? The star-studded panel, comprising Mr Teo Ser Luck, Mr Karl Chong, Mr Edward Chia, and Mr Alan Phua (see speaker profiles below), deftly fielded these questions and more, in what was arguably the highlight of the opening ceremony. Each panelist shared personal yet relevant anecdotes and gave the audience invaluable advice on what it takes to successfully launch a start-up company. The evening’s discourse continued over a networking session, where a sumptuous spread of food awaited our guests.

“I thought the panel discussion had many learning points for the participants”, said a member of the audience. “Just do it”, said another when asked what the main take-away for the night was. Overall, The launch of the 13^th S@S was well received and left a firm impression on its audience with its many learning points.

In their keynote addresses, Dr Lily Chan, CEO NUS enterprise and Mr Vivek, lead of the 13^th S@S, affirmed that the key focus of S@S was to help its participants along their entrepreneurial journey. With the 13^th S@S business plan competition off to a flying start, S@S looks set to groom yet another generation of budding entrepreneurs. So what are you waiting for? Sign up and take part in the entrepreneurial experience of a lifetime!

Mr Teo Ser Luck – Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry

Mr Karl Chong – Founder of Beeconomic and Groupon Singapore CEO

Mr Edward Chia – Founder, Timbre Group

Mr Alan Phua – Founder, Soyato and 11^th S@S winner

“If you’re working on something you’re passionate about, it gives you extra energy to do it.”

This energy is what keeps Vincent Lauria going in his entrepreneurial endeavours.

Vincent Lauria was a co-founder of Lefora.com, a forum hosting service for communities on the web, in San Francisco. The success of Lefora was obvious in less than 3 years and was later acquired by CrowdGather Inc. Vinnie also started the Silicon Valley NewTech meet-up and helped shape how IBM was approaching social software as an emerging and disruptive technology earlier in his career. He is now a mentor for start-ups.

On 15th September 2011, Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) had the pleasure to invite Start-up geek Vincent Lauria for a conversation with their internal members. The unforgettable evening began with Vincent sharing about his own entrepreneurIal experience–of how he bravely quit  his stable job to jump into the unknown and get his first start-up running.

The panel later proceeded on with enthusiastic audience throwing out series of questions at Vincent, through which they earned valuabe advice on getting started and what it truly means to have an entrepreneurial mindset. When asked to comment on the Singpore’s local startup scene, Vincent’s eyes lit up, claiming it to be the most vibrant in Asia, and even one of the fastest growing in the world!

So what are you start-up wannabes waiting for? Go out there and take your first step now!

Extraordinary Welcome Tea for NES and S@S

100 goodie bags, 350 seats and a booth for registration outside Lecture theatre 16 –a meticulously and tirelessly planned welcome tea by NES and S@S was no match for the overwhelming turnout rate that took the burgeoning society by utter surprise.
Long queues that were only witnessed when Liverpool came down to have a friendly football game with Team Singapore showed up at the registration counter, leaving the management team, for the first time, frantic and ecstatic.
Several of NES’s partners and sponsors from Spirit of Enterprise, Small and Medium Business Association as well as Nus Overseas College readily graced this event and shared precious information about entrepreneurship as well as many inspiring stories.
It was a mind-blowing event that left hundreds of students inspired with a new found enthusiasm and perspective towards entrepreneurship. An amazing start for the new batch of NES and S@S committee, and might I add, this is only the beginning.

Open Category
Winner: Aqualnnova
First Runners Up: Silver Solutions
Second Runners Up: Milaap.org

Youth Category
Winner: Ms DeeDee
First Runners Up: yPower6
Second Runners Up: Vision

Co-operative Category
Winner: X-Change
Joint Runners Up: DINC & Shrooms in bloom

Youth Category:

Vision
yPower6
Ms_DeeDee
Thursday_Tales
RAFBLOOD

Open Category:

X-Change
MINDSTRAT
BioSyn
Milaap.org
Capsule
Zwinger
DeepScan
Giivee
Lobanz
AquaInnova
Silver Solutions

CO-OP Category

1. Shrooms_in_Bloom
2. dINC
3. SocialChic
4. Zipz
5. Rentella
6. X-CHANGE
7. A.LIFE