The Fan Choice award goes to DesignBold, a Vietnamese startup providing visual editing tools
Poladrone, a Malaysian startup that builds drones used in plantations, has bagged the Judges’ Choice award at Echelon Asia 2017, one of the largest technology events in Southeast Asia.
The Fan Choice award has gone to DesignBold, a Vietnamese startup that provides an easy-to-use visual editing tool.
The two winners were selected from the 10 startups pitched to a group of four judges, comprising Jeffrey Paine, Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures; SaeMin Ahn, Managing Partner at Rakuten Ventures; Atsushi Taira, Chief Growth Officer and Representative Director at Mistletoe; and Albert Shyy, Principal at Burda Principal Investments.
Poladrone was founded by Jin Xi Cheong in June 2016, with a vision is to accelerate the drone revolution. The company provides aerial solutions to help businesses optimise their business operations and maximise results. It believes in continuously gathering data using autonomous systems to predict future events through Big Data analytics.
For instance, its machine learning algorithms automatically counts palm trees with high precision for inventory management. The firm’s proprietary neural network categorise palms based on leaf colour for health estimations and disease detection. The sensitive differentiation algorithms compares changes in terrain and infrastructure over time for maintenance decisions.
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The startup’s next milestone is become a platform where designers and anyone who loves and has designing skills contribute their works and benefit from passive income generated from their designs; and users can search and use the templates they like in less than no time and tell their own stories in the most intuitive way within the shortest time span.
Both the startups will get two seats at Platform E’s co-workings space for 12 months. Additionally, they will get full market access support through 2017 and 2018 alongside Echelon conferences.
More over, both Poladrone and DesignBold will be fast-tracked to the SLINGSHOT@SWITCH powered by Startup SG Grand Finals on 20 September 2017. They will also vie for a US$200,000 grant from SLINGSHOT.
SLINGSHOT@SWITCH aims to give promising startups a platform to showcase their technology and business ideas, gain early exposure to investors, corporates, industry leaders, mentors, media, and tech-savvy early adopters.
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