Last 15 semi-finalists Announced for Ideas.Inc Competition
December 31, 2009 by SGEntrepreneurs
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As a roundup before a brand new year starts, the Ideas.Inc competition organized by Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre, NTU and SPRING Singapore have finally unveiled their last 15 semi-finalists. About 200 teams have registered for the competition with 500 participants falling below the age of 26, with 30 ideas selected for the preliminary round by 40 preliminary round judges. Here are the list of the last 15 semi-finalists
Update: We have 6 finalists!
The last 15 semi-finalists will be provided with funding up to $15K to develop their product or service with the assistance of mentors provided by the business challenge. Here are their team names:
- Care Inc.
- Catch the Crowd
- Coating Concepts
- Forget Boundaries
- Full Water
- GIVE.SG
- i-Free
- In Vitro
- Joint Tech
- Manga Castle
- Outliers
- Paredigm
- Phoenix
- Soyato
- Tinkrbox
Care Inc is a solution provider for Indian hospitals to eliminate medical errors caused due to nurse negligence with the right help of a middle wear application. Delivering Right Patient, Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Time and Right Root of Administration.
A new power in interactive ‘on-the-road’ crowd engagement!
We help brands/institutions catch the attention of the crowds by offering an interactive brand immersion experience through the innovative application of technologies like SMS and dynamic displays.
Our main focus is to provide companies/institutions interaction with the people ‘on-the-road’. ‘On-the-road’ engagement refers to interaction in locations/situations where it is not possible to interact with a large number of people directly using traditional media.
Our flagship product – CrowdMagnet – consists of a dynamic digital display which is made interactive through the use of SMS. Advertisers will be able to run simple campaigns like games, surveys and quizzes that capture the attention of the crowds and expose them to their brands.
By providing an immersive and interactive experience that the consumer chooses to take part in, CrowdMagnet enables the brand to reach the crowd in an engaging, fun and non-intrusive manner. Additionally, the advertiser is also able to obtain crucial consumer data gathered from surveys and polls.
Coating Concepts Pte Ltd is founded by Kevin Tan and Cai Fei, both are final year undergraduates from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. With inspiration and guidance from Professor Huang Yizhong, the founders are committed in turning their innovative coating technologies into products. The company is funded by SPRING Singapore.
The first product is a coating poised to be commercialised designed to enable self lubrication in high speed cutting operations. The company’s vision is to provide state of the art coating solutions for industrial and consumer applications.
Forget Boundaries is a team of passionate and experienced travellers. Aadil, an NTU engineering undergraduate, has extensive experience in sales and management as a financial consultant with Prudential. Syazanah is an SMU graduate, specialized in marketing and psychology. Zafirah and Adeline are NUS graduates with respective strengths in finance and market research; and public relations and events management. Faisal, an SIM computer science undergraduate, is excellent in website development and programming. He completed numerous assignments such as one for the New Zealand Embassy. Zafirah, Adeline and Syazanah are working full-time on Forget Boundaries.
Forget Boundaries aims to change the landscape of travel. We provide opportunities for youth to explore sustainable and responsible travel. Our platform presents a unique and interactive experience for users to put together their travel itineraries. Users can map their travels and share the memories by creating digital scrapbooks of their travel photos and videos.
Full Water is a functional drinks company that is in the business of making low calorie, fat free, vitamin enhanced water. Our mission is to develop and supply a leading brand of next generation functional drinks to the Asia-Pacific market, with the aim of promoting healthy eating practices and improve the health and wellbeing of youths and working professionals.
Our team is a passionate, intellectually diverse, and coachable team comprised of four founders with backgrounds in the engineering, business, health and chemistry.
Team GIVE hopes to inspire a social movement for good. Our website, www.GIVE.sg is here to help you get involved and make a big difference. You can build a shelter and feed the homeless children. You can preserve our dying forest and protect endangered animals. Together, we can change the world. Stand up and be part of the solution. For my birthday, I’m celebrating by getting my friends to make a gift to children education. I love to run so I’m challenging a marathon to raise funds for breast cancer. Next holiday, I’m having a dinner party and serving only vegetables to encourage my friends to eat healthy and go green for our environment.
iFree is founded by Mr Aung, Mr Li and Mr Wang. We specialize in electronic devices design and development. Mr Aung is in charge of business plan, marketing research and customer analysis. Mr Li is specialized in product control. Mr Wang is in charge of technical support and product development.
iFree provides a platform that combines computer vision, computer graphics and GUI interface design. Our products have potential applications in areas such as banking, automobiles, health and education. We aim at changing the life style, improving the living standard and connecting the people. Company spirit: “You are all set”.
In Vitro Pte Ltd is a technology company founded by a group of NTU students who use their expertise to develop innovative lifestyle products like “Plant-in-a-Bottle”.
Our flagship product “Plant-in-a-Bottle”, has empowered customers with the ability to own a plant, that actually grows, WITHOUT THE NEED TO WATER OR MAINTAIN!
We are currently developing a spinoff product by adding functions to improve your well-being and quality of life at your personal space!
In Vitro promotes green conservationism, using recycled or reused materials to make their products which are alive, attractive and affordable while keeping it hassle-free!
Total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is the only solution for thousands of patients severely afflicted by osteoarthritis each year. The knee joint, consisting of the femoral head, tibial condyles and patella, is replaced by two or three prosthetic implants during a typical surgical procedure.
Currently, surgeons rely on experiences and visual observation to align the prosthetic knee. TKR surgery’s malalignment leads to fast wear-out of the tibial spacer and a consequential early revision surgery to replace this component.
Using JointTech’s real-time pressure-mapping system, surgeons can assess the pressure distribution at the bones’ interface. As prosthetic knees are aligned more easily and accurately, their longevity is improved.
With the first mover’s advantages and great market trend, JointTech has huge potential to be the world-leading company in pressure sensing technology for joint replacement surgeries. More importantly, thousands of people’s lives will be better with the development of this product.
Manga Castle is the most exciting, entertaining and engaging e?commerce platform for manga fans. Online shopping has never been more fun!
Look out for many features that generate interest-excitement! Play games and earn discounts? Meet people who share your passion? It’s all possible at Manga Castle.
Our team is truly amazing. Wu Di is the web guru armed with five years of industrial experience in web and game development as well as search engine optimization. Yao Xiaohui Sylvia is the business mind who is totally into marketing and social media.
Our web application, Wishii, is a wish list and events calendar hybrid that’ll both notify you of important events, and suggests not just appropriate gifts to buy, but also the best (cheapest) place to buy it.”
Currently focused on developing innovative green printing solutions, Paredigm has attempted to address the massive expenditure incurred by corporate houses and educational institutes, on purchasing paper and managing waste. By launching our twin pioneering products GraphitonTM and ErasonTM, we aim to make laser printed paper reusable.
Graphiton is a unique erasable dry toner catering to the laser printing market, while Erason is a one touch automated machine developed to erase paper which has been printed using Graphiton. The idea is to enable users to print on fresh paper using Graphiton, use it like they normally do and ultimately retrieve the fresh paper by passing the used paper through Erason.
Paredigm is a team of five highly motivated and entrepreneurially minded individuals hailing from diverse academic backgrounds. A good blend of technical knowledge and business acumen will definitely stand us in good stead, allowing us to develop unique yet commercially viable products.
We are a humble pair of recent graduates from the Communications and New Media and Electrical Engineering fields. We were both from NUS’s Raffles Hall, and Phoenix is the mascot of our Hall. It symbolizes the never say die spirit that is embodied by each and every Rafflesian. We hope that we can bring forward our synergy to the next level with this entrepreneur start up.
While we are in the process of patenting our business idea, we hope to share our simple but innovative online service with everyone soon.
Love soy milk and frozen dessert? How about combining the best of both worlds?
Introducing SOYATO! Made fresh with soy milk, SOYATO features a new category of frozen dessert- FROZEN SOY, which unlike ice cream, is low in fat, lactose and free of cholesterol. FROZEN SOY also misses out on the tartness of frozen yogurt, which makes it more palatable for our Asian tongues. It makes a perfect dessert for weight watchers and high-cholesterol patients, so you’ll never be deprived of your favourite frozen dessert again!
What’s more, SOYATO creates FROZEN SOY with many different flavours, so you get to eat your favourite chocolate-flavoured frozen dessert without the guilt of calories and cholesterol! Look out for this sin-less and tasty frozen soy dessert. SOYATO- Indulge the healthy way!
Tinkrbox makes sense of internet hyperlinks by converting links to actual content so you can access the content right in your Tinkrbox. Looking back in time, internet links give you one piece of information per link. Today, Tinkrbox allows you to put together different types of media; allowing you to simultaneously see, hear and read on your interested topic.
At Tinkrbox, you can easily collect and enjoy your favorite stuff in customizable boxes that can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. Create mashups of your favorite items (i.e. websites, videos, images, flash games, documents, etc) and share them effortlessly to friends via Facebook, Twitter and instant messengers.
We wish them all the best for the next round of competition and will look forward to hear from the Ideas.Inc organizers in the coming year.
Update: We have 6 finalists!
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