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The Competition
IPHatch® Day is an OPEN-INNOVATION COMPETITION looking for enthusiastic START-UPS or ENTREPRENEURS* who ambitiously want to scale their business to a greater height by incorporating the use of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIOS from renowned companies. You may stand a chance to win:
UP TO USD 500K
*NOTE: Small and Medium Enterprises are also welcome to join to IPHatch® Day competition. However, SMEs will be required to create a spin-off by incorporating a new business entity.
Individual
Eligibility
Are you in mid-career making your first venture into the startup world? Or are you a fresh graduate or an
ambitious student brimming with fresh ideas with an eye for execution? Maybe you're part of an innovative company seeking to unlock new markets and revenue streams? We are searching for the next Microsoft or
Bill Gates, the next Tesla or Elon Musk or the next Alibaba or Jack Ma with inventive ideas or a team of
like minded individuals to participate this competition.
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Enterprise
The Golden Prizes
After a round of pitch presentations, entrants will be carefully screened and hand-picked by our panel of judges. Those that are chosen will be entitled to gain some of the valuable resources below. We hope that with the support of these tools provided by some of the event organiser, partners and sponsors, our winners' will be better primed to bring their ideas and vocations into realisation.
Past Winners
Our 2017 winners consisted of three startup companies which either received funding to help facilitate their business further, professional support to guide the idea to progress to the next level or a nurturing foundation for the startup to establish a sound base to excel from. Through the incubator program, all businesses were able to achieve the following milestones.
2017 WINNER : ENGAGE NOVA
Engage Nova is a Field Service Technology solution provider that creates a new value and possibility to all workers by providing innovative products such as wearable devices, augmented reality and smart factory applications. Engage Nova aims to achieve “Enhance Capability" where the people can work efficiently and effectively regardless of their age and gender.
2017 WINNER : EASY ZIPPY
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Founded in 2015, Easy Zippy is a local technology company that provides last-mile services and solutions, with a focus in Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) and PMD storage services. Easy Zippy champions Singapore’s push towards a Smart Nation and strives to be a trailblazer in the Car-Lite movement through its various services and initiatives.
2017 WINNER : KANG HEALTHCARE
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Kang Healthcare was founded in 2017 with a vision of developing and leveraging modern technologies in a number of areas including database architecture, data mining, data modeling, data integration, applied analytics, and natural language processing, to develop products and tools that address the unique needs of both medical professionals and patients in the Complimentary Alternative Medicine industry (also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine).