Asia’s most exciting deep tech startup competition returned for its fourth year. 

This year Slingshot called for entries for 5 challenge sectors, as well as the new SLINGSHOT COVID-19 Challenge horizontal for solutions that help businesses and society adapt in the post-COVID world.

Up to Top 500 shortlisted startups will also have the opportunity to participate in corporate challenge opportunities with corporates via the Corporate Challenge platform.

As part of SFF x SWITCH 2020 (Singapore FinTech Festival x Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology), the Top 100 Global Startups will pitch to a global audience at SLINGSHOT 2020’s Virtual Finals in December and compete for cash and grant prizes worth up to S$800,000!

The organizer Agorize helps businesses to innovate and identify the best talent by connecting them with a global community of 5 million innovators.  This year's competition is centered around 5 sectors: Manufacturing, Logistics & Transportation; Urban Solutions & Sustainability & Energy; Health-Tech, MedTech & BioTech; FoodTech & AgriTech; and Digital solutions, Consumer Products & Services

Now in its 4th edition, startups from all around the world were invited to join the challenge and submit their most innovative business or tech-related solution online. Agorize believes, now more than ever, there is a responsibility to continue supporting startups like your team and accelerating innovative solutions across different industries.

Through this event it is possible to engage with Asia’s dynamic tech ecosystem and gain additional funding from investors, partners and more.

This program includes also access to SWITCH 2020, to be held on 7-11th December 2020.  Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) 2020 is the leading startup innovation and technology festival in Asia. The event will see the global  technology community converge on Singapore to discuss the latest developments and insights into the evolving landscape of emerging technologies today and in the future.

SWITCH delivers highly curated content and expert discussions directly from from top industry leaders at the forefront of building the world's most innovative solutions and technologies.

Professionals from all parts of the innovation ecosystem, including startups, enterprises and researchers will come together for technology matching, robust discussions and high-impact networking. Unique in its scale, positioning and format, SWITCH sits at the cross section of startups, enterprises, entrepreneurs and the investor community.

Naxon Labs solutions fit in the Health-Tech, MedTech & BioTech category, where Explorer could address several applications. 

Naxon Explorer is a cheap and useful tool and neurofeedback system for researchers in Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine, Engineering and Information Technology. 

Naxon Labs wants to open to the world the possibilities of researching the brain. Our platform is integrated with machine learning tools and automatic pattern analysis so that both an experienced researcher or recently graduated professional can easily explore the brain.