SiTF announces SiTF Awards 2016 winners

Source: SiTF. Startup and student winners at the SiTF Awards 2016.

Twenty-five startups, schools and individuals who have contributed to growth in the Singapore technology scene were awarded at last week's SiTF Awards 2016. Winners were chosen from close to 200 submissions.

This year’s awards featured two key categories: startups and schools. "Startups in the industry have the potential to change Singapore’s infocomm media (ICM) landscape and create new industries. They can contribute to the economic dynamism of the country by spurring innovation and competition. Our students are budding innovators and future drivers of change. Together they both represent the lifeblood and next generation of entrepreneurs which is critical for growth,” said Shirley Wong, Chairman of the SiTF Awards 2016 organising committee.

Winners were awarded based on technology and innovation, value to the consumer, the functionality and features of their product, solution or application and their presentation during the judging rounds. “We saw a lot of innovation during the presentations. More startups are using new technologies ranging from machine learning to Internet of Things, in line with Singapore’s vision of creating a Smart Nation. Many entrepreneurs came with strong backgrounds and experience. They already are proven companies with customers buying and using their solutions,” said Altona Widjaja, VP, Fintech and Innovation Group (The Open Vault), OCBC Bank, and one of the judges at this year’s awards.

Nine startup organisations representing industries ranging from trading to education technology and data management to online ordering systems received acknowledgment for their outstanding contribution as award recipients. Ten schools from tertiary to primary levels were also recognised for their entries.

Startup winners

Best Innovative Start-up – Early Stage
Gold: Aly
Spiking - A website that enables the investing public to track their favourite stocks for moves made by sophisticated investors.

Silver: Invoice Interchange
Invoice Interchange is a peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice trading marketplace that allows businesses to auction their outstanding invoices.

Silver: Miao Technology
MIAO - Miao is an educational technology company specialising in machine learning and natural language processing.

Bronze: GameWare
RezaSword - the world's first laser tag sword, sensor belt and kungfu tag vest for part-real-part-virtual gaming experiences

Bronze: SoundEye
SoundEye ARK - A monitoring system for home monitoring, surveillance and emergency monitoring.

Best Innovative Start-up – Growth Stage

Gold: Dynaoptics
DynaOptics WALA Cam is a wide-angle, low-aberration camera with a high field-of-view and low distortion. View the comparison video

Silver: Nugit
Nugit transforms data into informative reports. Request a trial

Bronze: Arcadier
Arcadier Online Marketplace Solution - An e-commerce platform enabling anyone to build, operate and manage marketplaces, and to do it quickly, inexpensively and without any programming knowledge.

Bronze: The Oddle Company
Oddle provides a smart online ordering system that enables food and beverage business owners to manage their own takeaway orders.

School winners

Best Innovative ICM Student Project (Tertiary)

Gold: Nanyang Polytechnic
Emotional Analysis Buddy (EAB) - A self-managing emotional wellness app aims to help early detection and management of emotional stress.

Gold: Singapore Polytechnic
Nyx - Artificial intelligence service that helps business owners that organise events - big or small, to provide great customer service through chat.

Silver: Singapore Polytechnic
Happy Wheel - A navigational platform built for the wheelchair community.

Bronze: Institute of Technical Education
The Efficient Ward - An online game which aids students in critical thinking and problem solving.

Best Innovative ICM Student Project (Secondary)

Gold: Raffles Institution
Lexi - A dyslexia friendly mobile app that allows users to snap pictures of physical documents and displays the text in an assistive font. The Best Presenter award went to Joelle Lim Xue Qi of Raffles Institution for Lexi.

Gold: Raffles Institution
Ri-Hand - A device that provides a sense of feeling, achieved by directly 3D printing a resistive force sensor array onto the hand.

Silver: Dunman High School
Eduto - A revolutionary integrated school administration and learning management system which uses Bluetooth to record a student’s attendance.

Silver: Dunman High School
Lighthouse - A game that helps students learn maths and science by making it fun and easy.

Bronze: Victoria School
Chemical Formula Challenge Application - A mobile application that ‘gamifies’ the formulation of chemical formulae.

Best Innovative ICM Student Project (Primary)

Gold: Fuhua Primary School
Learning Music Through Play! - Painted piano keys are transformed into a ‘real piano’ through a Makey Makey circuit, encouraging students to play and at the same time learn how the musical chords come together to compose a tune. Avanie Joshi won the Best Presenter award.

Gold: Rosyth School
Coding A CyberWellness Project - A programme comprising videos, quizzes, online games as well as talks and outreach activities to encourage cyberwellness.

Silver: Wellington Primary School
WeROCK: Wellington’s Rise Of Coding for Kids - A method called the ‘4F approach’ that enables young kids to use what they learn from coding to solve problems.

Bronze: North Vista Primary School
Saving Pocket Money For Rainy Days - Data analysis of students’ daily and weekly expenditure to reinforce the virtues of saving for rainy days.