Live blog: DEMO Asia pitches by innovative tech startups

15.46

All right, so we hand you to the mobile pitches. Sharon I believe is covering that one. Have a good one!

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15.44

Amit: thoughts on events such as DEMOAsia  happening in Singapore?
Jeff: This is a helpful and good forum for Singapore and the entrepreneurial scene in Asia in general. It gives us a chance to look at new ideas and also for the entrepreneurs to expose themselves to venture capitalists as well.
Michel: yes this is good forum. Too bad not enough time for us to talk to the individual inventors.
Guy: yes this is a good forum. We are always looking at new technologies and new inventors to invest in.

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15.42

Michel: some of the products shown may have a problem breaking to highly regulated industries hence suffer from a problem in terms of adoption. So try to steer clear from highly regulated industries.

Guy: I need to emphasize on the strong IP protection. Of course, things are getting better in Asia now. However, if you do not have strong IP protection, chances are high, any interesting products or ideas will be quickly copied by competitors.

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15.39

Jeff: Some of the pitches we have seen they look for a problem and then they search for a solution. Some have it the other way round. They first develop a solution first. So when those with a solution first situation, they need to focus on 1 problem that fits the solution they have.

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15.37

Amit: Questions for all 3 gentlemen. Regardless the domain, there are some broad common steps that need to be done by entrepreneurs. Eg, IP protection espoused by Guy. What do you think the steps need to be covered by entrepreneurs?

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15.35

Guy: You will need to know how to pick a great market and setup IP which is getting better in Asia. Big players like Samsung will have no problems copying technology if you do not have technology patents.

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15.33

Jeff: I favor those doing the materials like TerraBarrier and Sofshell pad as they have a good chance for wide adoption.
Guy: the 3DI will have difficulties against the big players like Samsung, LG.
Michel: I have concerns if the circular form of the Sofshell Pad is crucial to the performance. If it is, it will have limits on the adoption of the product.

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15.30

Jeff Chi, MD Vickers Venture
Guy Proulx, MD of Transpacific IP
Michel Birnbaum, General Partner of iGlobe Partners
Amit Choudhury, Editor of BT Technology is moderating.

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15.27

And that is it for the pitches. It is time to hear the sages about their comments on the pitches.

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15.27

Next up is SafeDriver. A driver alert system that will pre emptively wakes sleepy drivers. They are looking for developers and funding.

TWare talks about how autistic children requires deep touch simulation and their TWare helps to provide the deep touch simulation as and when required to the children.

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15.22

time for 90 seconds pitch. and Lyrex is up first about bed sores. And it is a USD4billion dollar market. A product that will inform the patients when to move to prevent bed sores.

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15.20

Apparently, they just use blood samples that will help in instant diagnosis that usually take up to months.

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15.17

The company presenting this non-invasive cancer diagnosis method is CellSievo Pte Ltd.

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15.15

I see where 9degrees is going with this product. It is taking a data-analysis approach towards improving sports performance.

They have stopped and the next pitch is about non-invasive cancer diagnosis

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15.14

Okay I saw their software analysis tool. It is called WhackIT.

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15.13

Looks like their sensor works to track the strength of stroke, speed of ball when a tennis player uses their product.

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15.11

Ah.. apparently an avatar moves as the dancers move. They are using a infrared sensor tied to the wrists of the dancers.

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15.09

And they opened with a salsa number. I guess I can say I have seen them all in this year’s DEMOAsia.

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15.08

next pitch is about improving your performance…. in sports. Okay so I stole that line from Tim, the emcee. It is a good line.

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15.07

Okay the last thing Marc of TeraBarrier Films tell us is that they have SGD40 million in Customer Intent before summarily cut by the sound crew who obviously are very strict about the 6 minute limit.

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This TeraFilm also increases the performance and lifespan of solar cells dramatically.

I don’t know about you, but now I know how the non-geeks feel when they listen to those API related presentations.

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Apparently Tera-Barrier Films Pte Ltd are selling a different Tera Film compared with Plastic Film.

They claim that their TeraFilm only allows 1 droplet of water per meter square compared with 30 liters of water in the same area per year.

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15.00

Well the crowd loved the presentation. And we are starting a new pitch now. Tera-Barrier Films Pte ltd.

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14.59

The iPhone was still working after that bowling ball!

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14.58

Ha. They just dropped a bowling bowl. Not 6, not 8 but 12 pounds of bowling ball on an iPHONe!!!

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14.57

They protected the watermelon from being nailed with the Sofshell pad.

And then they proceeded to hammer a demonstrator’s hand wearing a Sofshell pad.

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14.56

I think the Sofshell just dropped a giant nail into a watermelon.

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14.55

Elgin just gave the customary “Kids don’t try this at home ” line.

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14.54

Elgin is presenting Sofshell as a gel-based impact protection solution.

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14.53

Elgin started by smashing a brick with a hammer… to highlight about impact protection.

He started on fire.. sounding like a tv commercial. Ha.

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14.53

Apparently, Elgin the presenter from Sofshell had downed 5 RedBulls this morning according to Tim.

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14.52

3DI went slightly overtime but they showed 3 tv screens — 1 SuperStreetFight4, 1 Transformer movie, 1 photo album

and we now have the next pitch by Sofshell

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14.50

Apparently they are doing 3D without the viewer wearing 3D glasses. They are doing it with a piece of glass and  a one-time install of software. I have to say the 3D effects are there, but not very obvious to me.

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14.47

Woo.. they are showing a StreetFighter4 game. 3DI thinks the best market for their product would be the games market.

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14.46

Okay a little bit of drama, Alfred just threw away a pair of 3D glasses.

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14.45

Alfred Chong is presenting from 3DI.
3DI wants to change the way games are played on large screen tv and 3D

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14.44

All right, time for the 6 minute demo pitches.

3DI is up first with a demo involving Chromatic Light Deflector. It is patent pending Optical element.

We are waiting for them to set things up with 3 LCD screens.