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Due to incomplete copyright database and the limitations of existing technology, 25% of royalties from digital music platform is unpaid or paid to the wrong artists and creators. For payments identified, intermediaries are taking up to 52% commission for royalties processing.

Powered by our proprietary AI Audio Fingerprint, Fairphonic identifies both the artists and creators behind each music, tracks the music usage and empowers platforms to issue direct payment to the right artists and creators.

Fairphonic has onboarded 3 music platforms and are currently in advanced talks with major music companies controlling 70% of the music market.

Tang Heng Yang has been in the music industry for 13 years with key expertise in music licensing, audio engineering and creative production. Having previously founded a music distribution startup in South Korea and concert production company in Singapore, he has extensive experience working with artists and industry professionals of all scales across multiple disciplines.

Majdi Rabia has received two Masters in Applied Probability and Statistics from ENSTA Paris and National University of Singapore. With key expertise in data modelling and machine learning, he has previously developed and deployed Derivatives Compression tool for the fintech industry, namely with Capitalab.

FALCONBIO builds Smart Bacteria: a pioneering drug delivery system to
fight cancer.

Current cancer drugs target normal cells along with cancer cells causing severe side-effects, suffering, and patient death. Reduced drug effectiveness leads to 50% increased mortality leading to drug failures. At FALCONBIO, we develop ingestible cancer therapeutic solutions with our proprietary Smart Bacteria (SB).

Our SB are engineered to specifically seek, sense and destroy cancer cells completely without damaging the health of the patient. FALCONBIO is in negotiations with 3 pharma giants to co-develop SB-based cancer therapies for colorectal cancer. Our vision is to revolutionize cancer therapy by 2025.

Stylianos Makrogkikas has a Ph.D. in genome engineering from NUS, Singapore. He has 15 years of unparalleled experience in genetic manipulation of bacteria, zebrafish and mice.

Akshay Bhat has a Ph.D. in cancer biology from NUS, Singapore. He was awarded the prestigious President’s Graduate fellowship for exceptional promise and accomplishment in research. He has 8 years of experience in spearheading collaborative projects with cancer clinics and has key publications in high impact journals.

Manufacturing companies lose up to 40% of their sales revenue because of poor quality products or defects. What’s worse, these defects could be prevented by using data that is already flowing through manufacturers’ production lines. At FireVisor, we provide AI powered software platform that understands manufacturing data to reduce the cost of product failure. We are saving 15-55 billion every year , and our client list includes leading giants in high volume manufacturing.

Surbhi Krishna Singh has a Master’s in Engineering from the NUS. She has extensive experience in manufacturing and industrial automation, and worked for industry giants like Micron and Seagate. She has 2 award winning engineering projects under her belt, and has built an integrated systems that saved 80% cost.

Long Hoang has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He built machine learning models that analyze millions of transactions for outliers. He also designed data pipelines that scales to tens of billions of requests per month. He started the largest hackathon in greater China region, and attended a fully funded Entrepreneurship program at Stanford.

Gallenco delivers AI medical imaging diagnostic solutions to automate archaic laboratory tests.  Our first product combines Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision to automate the 600 million blood films tests performed each year.

The peripheral blood film test serves as a screen for Leukemia, Anemia and other conditions. Today, 20% or 600 million blood tests require manual review under the microscope.

Adonis Panagidis

Adonis Panagidis did presales and technical consulting for multinational corporations across the region during his time at Amazon. He is a computer science graduate and holds a nanodegree in self-driving cars where he gained expertise in computer vision and AI.

Nicholas Capel

Nicholas Capel holds a Masters degree in AI from Cambridge University. Most recently he held the position of CTO in a chest X-rays diagnostic startup and was previously a fullstack developer for TripAdvisor.

Greywing is the world’s first digital platform unifying the physical security market.

Physical security today is a big market that still suffers from problems that other industries have overcome. Pricing and discovery is difficult, contractor pay is low, and supply and demand are spread across verticals that have no contact between them. Trust is at an all time low.

Greywing is a security marketplace that unites these verticals, simplifies due diligence with instant bookings and easy price discovery.

We’re working on securing the world and improving the lives of the men and women that protect us. We have 4 operational verticals and $86K in revenue, and we’re growing fast.

Nicholas John Leishman Clarke spent 10 years as a Royal Marine Commando before building his own security company from scratch, which he ran for 8 years.
He understands every level of our market as an experienced start-up founder, security contractor and director.

Hrishi Olickel Arumaraj has spent 10 years building tech products for non-early adopter markets. Ex-CTO and full stack engineer building products with over
100k users, he has worked with the Singapore Exchange and National Geographic among other leading companies. He has 1 patent and 2 publications in leading conferences.

In the last 10 years, autonomous vehicle companies have been using laser spinning systems called LiDARs for navigation. Although LiDARs have improved in resolution, they can’t penetrate rain, dust, or fog due to physical limitations of lasers. Hertzwell is developing high resolution 3D imaging radars to help driverless vehicles navigate in all weather conditions.This approach uses all weather radar technology from the aerospace industry and miniaturises it for autonomous vehicles.

Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta has over 6 years of experience in developing autonomous driving platforms. During his time in TATA, he was involved in research and development projects related to autonomous systems. He has also developed several automotive products for Fiat Chrysler and Delphi. He has a masters degree in Mechatronics from the National University of Singapore.

Ram Vignesh Palaniswamy is an aerospace engineer with deep knowledge in radar systems that are predominantly used in the aerospace industry. He recently won an award for his work on radars from Technical University of Munich and Nanyang Technological University.

Hydroleap is making wastewater treatment cheap, fast and easy. Their patent-pending design is revolutionising pre-treatment of wastewater by replacing chemical treatment with electrical treatment at scale. This leads to saving of 15 billion dollars a year.

Mohammad Sherafatmand did his PhD at National University of Singapore, researching the development and application of novel electrochemical technologies in water and wastewater treatment. He has more than 6 years of experience in the water industry and has collaborated with well-recognized water companies such as the Public Utilities Board (PUB).

Immerzen Labs is using advanced signal processing, machine learning and computational optimization techniques to create next generation audio technologies for simulated worlds to replicate natural hearing. Our technology will power the hardware and software for VR/AR applications including communication, gaming and education.

Rishabh Ranjan is an expert in the area of 3D audio, adaptive signal processing and active noise control. He has a PhD from NTU and applied machine learning and audio signal processing in developing headphones for augmented reality.

Ronak Bajaj completed his PhD from NTU, Singapore. His research focused on fast and efficient implementations of computationally intensive signal processing applications on FPGAs. Prior to joining NTU, Ronak has worked at Xilinx Research Labs, India.

Lokesh Dhakar is an award winning scientist with a PhD from NUS in sensor design. He also holds an MBA from NUS Business school.

Businesses leak close to 10% in top-line value every year due to poor visibility over internal data, particularly in finance and operations.

inPact processes contracts, invoices and other unstructured documents, using AI to extract and analyze complex commercial terms and provide companies the missing insights needed to plug the value leak.

In a few months, inPact has built a growing clause database and trained NLP models that beat leading contract management software on contract term detection, launched an Alpha version with early adopters, and signed two pilots for working capital optimisation and vendor management.

After graduating from Columbia Law at 21, Jose Sampedro Mazon became a corporate lawyer at global law firm Linklaters in London. Following an MBA at INSEAD, he joined the Boston Consulting Group leading Strategy & Ops transformations at Asian banks as a project leader. He then worked as a business development director at Oracle Cloud.

Dr Siddhartha has a PhD in Computer Science with 10 years of experience working in multiple R&D teams for institutions such as Imperial College London, NTU Singapore, and the University of Sydney. He has extensive experience in various machine learning domains, and in particular, Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Modern workforces require soft skills that are hard to assess from a resume. According to Deloitte, soft-skill intensive occupations will account for two-thirds of all jobs by 2030. At Interviewer.AI, we are focused on building the penultimate step to hire great talent. We want to combine the application process with the first round of interview to help hiring Managers and recruiters not just get a holistic view of all candidates, but spot top quality talent as soon as they apply.

Sunny Saurabh

Sunny Saurabh worked for over a decade in the digital industry, working on sales strategy and product ideation for companies such as LinkedIn and Google while they were still startups in Asia.

Boon Khai Lim

Boon Khai Lim has built large scale web application serving millions of travelers at Skyscanner. He is passionate about the use of disruptive tech, particularly the use of AI to enhance the lives of the human workforce.

INVOLT is developing the next-generation energy storage, using the inherent advantages of supercapacitor technology. This will pave the way for an accelerated adoption of renewables as primary energy sources in the future power grid. Existing battery technologies are not a durable and cost-effective solution.

Kinexcs is a building state-of-the-art monitoring products for the physical rehabilitation industry. We combine advanced sensor technology with intuitive software platforms to ease remote patient-clinician interaction and provide actionable clinical data for timely intervention. This makes recovery up-to 40% faster while improving patient compliance, raising clinician productivity by up-to 1.5x.

Abhishek Agrawal (CEO) has previously worked in high precision manufacturing sector, where he built monitoring solutions used by companies such as Foxconn, Boeing and Airbus. He has also worked on implantable medical devices and sensor design. He possesses a joint masters in biomedical engineering from Nanyang Technological University and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

Mahdi Rasouli (CTO) has rich experience with force and tactile sensors, which have earned him accolades such as Medtronic Industry Choice Award. He received his PhD in biomedical engineering from National University of Singapore and possesses more than 15 years of research experience. 

Jagjit Singh (COO) He worked at Boston Consulting Group and as a General Manager of MOOG, where he managed 250 employees and more than $100 million in annual sales. He holds an MBA degree from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Konigle is building the layer of intelligence for traditional small and medium sized businesses using automation and intelligence. Our mission is to build the simplest user experience for small business owners to harness their unstructured and silo-ed data to make in time data driven decisions.

Jatin Khosla has spent 7+ years as a product leader architecting, building and scaling adoption of data driven digital products in traditional businesses, development agencies and the government.

Ashish Kumar has a PhD in Machine learning from Nanyang Technological University. As a researcher he has developed a highly scalable framework for pattern detection from unstructured data. He has 8 publications in top journals and conferences.

KroniKare provides a platform for automatic and non-invasive chronic wound assessment, as well as tracking, predicting, and data-driven reporting. Chronic wounds (wounds that do not heal for at least 3 months) are a rapidly growing problem that is common in patients with diabetes, obesity, cardio-vascular diseases, and aging population, costing more than $250 billion worldwide. KroniKare’s platform runs on a normal smartphone and mimics how a medical professional examines and reports on a chronic wound faster and more accurately.

KrossLinker develops the world’s best insulation material for bio-pharma packaging.

$318B temperature-sensitive biopharma products such as vaccines, blood, and drugs were shipped in 2018. Ineffective packaging contributed to $22B loss of wasted products and delayed clinical trials. Our patented aerogel technology provides 200% better insulation performance, higher payload capacity, and offers multiple usage (sustainable). This translates to $4.2B savings to biopharma companies. We have confirmed pilots with 2 of the biggest temperature-controlled packaging companies with 8 more in the pipeline. We will soon spread our wings to other insulation verticals (aerospace, oil and gas).

Dr Gayathri Natarajan has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from NUS with 8 years of experience working with industries and government agencies to commercialise innovations in sustainable chemical processes.

Dr. Elmira Soghrati is a technical expert with 6 years of experience in product development, material chemistry formulation and design of advanced material. She has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from NUS.

Dr. Mahesh Nathan is an expert with 8 years of experience in insulation technology. He has several publications, patents and a book in engineering, manufacturing and commercialising aerogel material.

Lemnis Technologies is making VR/AR viable as the next computing platform. Their patent pending technology aims to eliminate VR sickness by providing natural visual cues in 3D displays. This technology layer will be fundamental in every VR/AR headset in the next generation.

Pierre-Yves Laffont is an expert in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. He was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and Brown University, holds a PhD from INRIA, and visited MIT, UC Berkeley, and NTU. He has 13 international peer-reviewed publications.

Ali Hasnain has an award-winning PhD from NUS with a wide range of expertise in optics, imaging, medical devices and robotics. He has over 8 years of experience building multidisciplinary solutions both in academia and industry

LEORIX manages infrastructure for high-frequency data pipelines.

Instead of paying for hundreds of developer hours to build complex custom solutions, companies can be up and running in days. Currently, the back-end stacks of data streaming applications require multiple platforms and a different set
of experts. Businesses today spend $72B per year to build efficient systems.

We designed LEORIX to solve this problem. Now, companies can save time and money because they don’t need to pay specialised developers to build the pipelines from scratch. So far, we have partnered with several leading cloud providers in Southeast Asia.

Thana Kuganesan built and exited his tech startup SparkGrid in Sri Lanka and scaled it from 2 to 15 employees in 2.5 years by bootstrapping as CEO. He is a computer science engineer from the University of Moratuwa and was a back-end engineer for robotics and multiplayer game applications for 7 years.

Sri Kuganesan has a Master’s in distributed systems at KTH-Sweden. He has 12 years of industrial experience and is a core member of Hadoop Distributed Platform. He specialises in data streaming and has worked at Spotify and Ericsson for 4 years. He owns 2 provisional patents for data distribution and compression techniques.

Lytehouse builds software that acts as a command center for security control rooms by pulling their sensors and response coordination into a single platform and enhances their capabilities with computer vision. 99% of alarms in private security are false and no pieces of their software stack talk to each other which is challenging to scale and is supported by excessive manpower.

Starting with our propriety real-time object recognition, we manage the flow of threat detection from identification to dispatch and have contracts for paid pilots with security companies and partners across South Africa.

Natalie Maria Doran has spent five years building early-stage startups in gaming, HR and Blockchain – doing everything from sales to product development. Her bootstrapped CSR platform signed household names and enlisted over 70 charities in Singapore, earning her a nomination for the United Nations ‘SheInnovates Award 2019’’.

Jean-Vicente De Carvalho is a hacker, full-stack engineer and machine learning expert. He has both practical and academic experience: he built a banking workflow platform that serviced 3000 corporates daily and worked closely with Google DeepMind to tutor 500 postgrads in the fundamentals of ML at their African Indaba.

Audio advertising is a $46 billion market due for disruption. Growing fastest is podcast advertising expecting to reach $2 billion worldwide in 2021. But podcast advertising model remains traditional, manual and time-consuming.

MatchCasts enable brands to scale their audio campaigns with our AI ad-tech platform. Brands use our platform to identify podcasts in line with their brand targets, analyze insights of their audio ads before launching the campaign into any podcasts through our platform.

Jaime Ng is a technical and data-driven Chief Marketing Officer with over 18+ years of experience working in the US, UK and SEA. She has built MarTech and AdTech platforms for MediaCorp, TripAdvisor (US) and MySpace (US). Most recently she led both marketing, product and technical teams as CMO in RedMart and NTUC Link.

Diabetic retinopathy is a common complication of diabetes affecting the eye. Diabetic patients go blind if untreated before noticeable symptoms occur. Screening for this disease is however massively inefficient. Diabetes doctors cannot detect this disease, and it requires scarce eye specialists. Medios Technologies builds deep learning software that enables every doctor to detect diabetic retinopathy in the absence of a specialist, allowing diabetes doctors to improve their practices and prevent blindness.

Bhargav Sosale is a software engineer and product designer from Nanyang Technological University. He has designed and built consumer products used by thousands and comes from a family of diabetes doctors.

Florian Savoy is computer vision and machine learning expert. He obtained his Master’s Degree form EFPL and has four years of research experience with the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, a Singapore based research lab of the University of Illinois.

We believe that by 2030, every consumer who makes a credit card payment or a bank transfer, would have used the blockchain without even knowing it. For this to happen, regulators would play a very important role. Our vision is to be the layer of trust between banks, regulators and blockchain companies.

Globally, there is a wave of upcoming cryptocurrency regulations for AML and fraud prevention (FATF, EU 5th AML Directive, SG Payment Services Bill). In order to comply, blockchain companies, funds and regulators need high-tech cybercrime tools.

Mriganka Pattnaik

Mriganka Pattnaik (CEO) has 6 years of experience across investment banking and technology. Before EF, he worked at Luno, a Naspers backed cryptocurrency exchange where he was responsible for business expansion as they scaled from 5 to 40 countries.

Nirmal AK

Nirmal AK (CTO) has 6 years of work experience as fraud data scientist at Paypal and Instamojo, an Indian payments startup. Prior to joining EF, he founded a startup which manufactured ethereum mining rigs.

You may not know, but you are surrounded by activated carbons. They determine your user experience duration of batteries in your cell phones and cars, and quality of the water you drink and air you breathe.

However, those in the market are unfit for these applications, which results in poor performance and low efficency. This is because their manufacturing and design rely on 75-year old technology. Mesotope is changing that. We use chemistry to bridge innovation, efficiency, and activated carbons resulting in up to 300% higher efficiencies across multiple applications: from water treatment to energy storage.

Gordana Ilic completed her PhD in chemistry at NTU. She has 7 years of research experience and 5-peer reviewed publications in chemical synthesis and water treatment. A scholar of 4 universities in 3 continents, internationally-awarded scientist, and a “Top change-maker of 2012”, as named by World Learning.

Akshay Jain holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from NUS and he is a specialist in activated carbon technology with over 8 years of experience. He has produced more than 250 different types of activated carbons. He published a patent and 15 high impact peer reviewed journals with more than 1000 citations.

MicroSec is bringing enterprise grade security to IoT and sensor networks. Their patent pending optimization techniques allow power and bandwidth constrained nodes to have enterprise level security as equivalent to any other Internet based system. MicroSec security design is network protocol agnostic allowing it to work on any communication technology.

Vishram Mishra is an award winning researcher and a certified information security professional. He has a PhD in wireless communication from NTU in the advance area of wireless communication. He has more than 8 years of experience in this area of security, network protocols and embedded systems.

Magzhan Ikram is a mathematician with a master’s degree in applied mathematics and computer science from LMSU. He has several years of experience in the area of computational topology and deep learning on the platforms like super computers and embedded systems.

Globally, shoppers face out-of-stocks once in every 5 shopping trips, costing retailers nearly $1T USD in lost sales. What is not on shelves, is not sold. Today large chain retailers know when a product arrives at the store and when they sell it. But they do not know if products are well stocked and accurately displayed on store shelves.

Our computer vision software gives them real-time shelf analytics, enabling them to optimise shelf space and enforce consistent merchandising standards to maximise sales performance.

We have pilot contracts with of 2 Fortune 100 companies and are live in 2 stores.

Eunice Wong Ern Sien is an award-winning retail professional with 10 years of experience in retail and tech, having worked at Microsoft, Shell and Dunnhumby. She has helped global retailers to digitise and monetise their data and grow $200M portfolio by 30%.

Sagar Setu is a Robotics and Computer Vision expert educated at IIT Kanpur with a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. As a researcher he has built a vision based navigation system and deep learning based autonomous emergency landing system for helicopters. He has previously co-founded a deep tech startup on natural water resource management.