2025 Edition
Ready to slingshot your startup into the world through Singapore?
Compete for grant prizes worth over S$2 million when you take the global stage under SLINGSHOT 2025’s spotlight from 29-31 October and showcase your trailblazing solutions to the world!
Embark on the 9th edition of SLINGSHOT, a global deep tech startup competition from Singapore to the world, and make the pitch of a lifetime in the presence of key industry leaders and a global audience of investors. We are excited for our best startups to walk away with more - bigger and better prizes for our winners this year!
This year, more than 6,800 startups from over 150 markets participated in SLINGSHOT, with our Top 60 Global Startups joining us here in Singapore in October to forge connections with industry experts and key ecosystem partners. The competition will culminate in the Finals held at the SWITCH 2025.
Find out more about SLINGSHOT here
Competition Domains:
| Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity | Health and Biomedical |
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| Environment, Energy and Green Technologies | Transformative Digital Technologies |
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SLINGSHOT 2025 — Top 60 Global Startups
Meet our Top 60 Global Startups across four challenge domains. Explore their websites and quick elevator pitches below.
Transformative Digital Technologies
| Startup | Elevator Pitch |
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| AQSolotl | AQSolotl is the ARM of quantum computing. With a scalable architecture bridging classical and quantum, it enables seamless hybrid computing from cloud to research—accelerating quantum adoption. |
| BankVault — MasterKey | Invisible passwordless MFA for SaaS: drop-in, no software/setup for users, and one frictionless step (not two). Backs rapid adoption across platforms; supported by Whitfield Diffie and 14 patents. |
| Brelyon — Ultra Reality | Headset-free immersive displays for training, ops centers, entertainment and automotive; 30+ granted patents and partners incl. Lockheed Martin, LG Display, and Corning. |
| COBI | New architecture combining classical and quantum to accelerate optimization workloads—from data centers to low-power edge devices—making previously intractable problems practical. |
| DagsHub | From POC to production: unified platform for datasets, experiments, and model registry; supports on-prem and air-gapped environments for sensitive, large-scale AI. |
| Goldilock Secure Limited | On-demand physical isolation for data, devices, and networks. Out-of-band triggers connect/disconnect systems to minimize cyber exposure and transform attack surfaces. |
| Hudson AI | Audio intelligence for global media: cinematic-grade AI dubbing (“Timbr”) and real-time multilingual voice chat (“Pulse”) to make content borderless. |
| Innowave Tech Pte Ltd | Industrial AI for zero-defect manufacturing and factory autonomy (Wave AutoPilot, iWave Insight, iWave ZeroDefects). Deployed with 30+ tech leaders across semicon/aerospace. |
| NeuralGarage | “VisualDub” eliminates visual dissonance in dubbing by matching lip/jaw movements to dubbed audio—enabling seamless, high-impact storytelling for non-native content. |
| Peris.ai Cybersecurity | AI-powered SOC with modular agents that learn from IOCs to cut detection/response times—reducing tool sprawl and analyst dependency across industries. |
| Tyrion.ai | Enterprise AI agent platform—unified hub combining generative AI, agents, knowledge graphs, and reinforcement learning to drive intelligent automation and decisions. |
| Wave Photonics | Integrated photonics design with fabrication-tolerant, high-performance devices across Si/SiN platforms—accelerating comms, quantum, and sensing products via design automation. |
| Zapdos Labs | The memory layer for the world’s video—transcription, segmentation, and frame-level semantic search to turn hours of raw footage into structured, searchable intelligence. |
| Zhejiang Polar Code Technology | Founded in 2022, Zhejiang Polar Code builds AI-driven intelligent terminals for smart grids—integrating sensing, decision-making, and control to tackle high renewable-penetration challenges. Its systems deliver high-precision equipment identification, multi-objective optimized decisions, and voltage–frequency stability control; proven in multiple demos to improve grid stability and raise renewable self-consumption. The company focuses on modular, cost-effective digital energy solutions for utilities and high-energy-use industrial campuses. |
Health and Biomedical
| Startup | Elevator Pitch |
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| Airway Shield | Airway Shield™ simplifies and protects endotracheal intubation (100M+ procedures/year), guiding the tube, reducing trauma, and lowering aerosol transmission risk. |
| AxcynsisTx | Next-gen antibody-drug conjugates via AxcynDOT payloads and advanced bioconjugation—highly homogeneous ADCs with broader therapeutic windows and superior efficacy. |
| BetaLife | BetaLife is a pre-clinical biotech developing a functional cure for severe diabetes using immune-evasive induced pluripotent stem cells to generate billions of insulin-producing islet cells. Spun out of A*STAR, its platform combines an ethnically diverse cell bank, precision gene editing for immune tolerance, and scalable manufacturing to enable a universal, off-the-shelf islet replacement therapy—aiming to restore natural insulin production and eliminate lifelong injections and immunosuppression. |
| Birmingham Biomat LTD | Drug-free mucosal barrier tech with products like NoriZite® nasal/eye sprays and anti-HPV gel; platform extends to wound care and women’s health, distributed across 10+ countries. |
| CRESEN Inc. | DUOBLADE: FDA-cleared monopolar electrosurgical device that reduces surgical smoke/tissue necrosis; precise, low-temperature dissection with reliable hemostasis. |
| DolbomDream Co., Ltd. | Non-contact AI biometric monitoring for seniors; Carearly detects early signs and alerts caregivers—$1.1M revenue and growing global traction. |
| Gisens Biotech | Ultra-accurate, rapid medical diagnostics beyond the lab—fast, accessible testing that brings immediate insight to patients and clinicians. |
| iBody Inc. | Proprietary platform for rapid, comprehensive monoclonal antibody discovery against challenging targets; patents in JP/US/EU and pharma partnerships. |
| iLoF – Intelligent Lab on Fiber | AI + photonics to analyze biofluids and identify disease-specific molecular patterns—fast, affordable, non-destructive screening and stratification for complex diseases. |
| LIFESCAPES Inc. | Stroke cases have risen 40% in the past decade, and current options are ineffective for severe hand paralysis. LIFESCAPES develops a Brain–Computer Interface therapy offering new hope for patients previously considered untreatable. |
| Loop Diagnostics | SeptiLoop®: CE IVDR Class C and UKCA certified rapid immune-based sepsis test—actionable results in <2 hours to improve triage and antibiotic decisions. |
| Nalagenetics | Offers pharmacogenomic testing and clinical decision support (e.g., RXmax panel covering up to 240 medications) to reduce adverse drug reactions and personalize treatment. |
| Physiologas Technologies | Waterless hemodialysis using proprietary dialysate regeneration—compact, plumbing-free system for treatment anywhere; reduces burden and strengthens resilience. |
| REVIVO BioSystems Pte. Ltd. | 4D tissue-on-chip (ReleGO) + bioanalytics for rapid, human-relevant efficacy/safety testing—reducing animal use and accelerating translatable preclinical insights. |
| Jingrui Biotech (SingenBio Therapeutics) | SingenBio is building an extrahepatic drug delivery platform using breakthrough silica biomaterials—offering high tissue specificity, low immunogenicity, large drug-loading capacity, and strong tissue permeability. The proprietary system efficiently delivers peptides, oligonucleotides, nanobodies, radioisotopes, and small molecules to hard-to-reach tissues, enabling new treatments in precision immune tolerance, RNAi, and radiotherapy. Founded by researchers from Princeton, Cornell, and Tsinghua, the team targets major unmet needs in autoimmune disease, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. |
| WomenX Biotech Limited | PadX sanitary pad detects HPV with 99.2% accuracy; 3.8% Hong Kong private screening share in 7 months. Expanding to SEA (2027) and beyond. |
Environment, Energy and Green Technologies
| Startup | Elevator Pitch |
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| Allye Energy | Intelligent battery storage with grid-forming capabilities—scaling to cloud “Energy Banking” for shared storage 100× more affordable and resilient. |
| Aruna Revolution | Transforms agricultural residuals into compostable absorbent fibres for hygiene markets—expanding to incontinence, medical textiles, and hydroponics. |
| Avalve | AI-powered smart farm solutions to predict harvests, maximize yields, and enable sustainable, data-driven farming. |
| Ayrton Energy | e-LOHC™ liquid hydrogen carrier compatible with existing fuel infrastructure—safe, storage-stable, and cost-effective to accelerate hydrogen adoption across industry/mobility/power. |
| BUYO – Biowaste to Bioplastics | 100% nature-based, biodegradable bioplastics converting bio-waste into materials for flexible/rigid packaging and medical applications. |
| Carnotfleet | Cold-chain accessibility + error-prevention to curb perishables loss—deployable, cost-efficient products for post-harvest logistics. |
| enaDyne | Non-thermal plasma catalysis to convert CO₂/waste gases into feedstocks, produce ammonia, and remove PFAS/PFCs—modular, energy-efficient drop-in reactors. |
| MatNex | AI-driven materials discovery with synthesisability focus; cuts timelines from years to months for refrigerants, magnets, green H₂ components, and more. |
| OKOsix | OKOsix makes certified compostable, low-carbon materials to replace fossil plastics in healthcare. Using SLINGSHOT as a launchpad, the team aims to build SEA partnerships to make healthcare safer, cleaner, and truly sustainable. |
| Pertinent eco-solutions | Nature-derived pest-control as effective as chemicals but safer than conventional options—and more effective than current biocontrols. |
| Plastic-i | Dynamic water intelligence from multi-sensor satellite imagery and proprietary AI—risk scores, habitat maps, pollution alerts, climate resilience indicators. |
| Remedium Energy | Limeloop synthetic limestone + novel process cuts carbon capture costs by >80% to ~$13/tCO₂, while acting as a heat battery to offset energy costs. |
| spotLESS Materials | spotLESS Materials develops PFAS-free, nature-inspired non-stick coatings. Its proprietary Liquid Entrenched Smooth Surface (LESS) creates ultra-low-friction surfaces that repel liquids, solids, and biofouling—commercialized via consumer products and scaled industrial/medical partnerships to set a new standard for sustainable non-stick materials. |
| Tersa Earth | TersaClean engineered microbes neutralise acidity, remove contaminants, and recover critical metals from mining waste—turning liabilities into assets. |
| Veridi Technologies | AI-powered automated microscopy for soil biodiversity and plant disease diagnostics—backed by EIC and partnerships with major agrochem players. |
Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity
| Startup | Elevator Pitch |
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| CIT Co., Ltd. | Atomic Sputtering Epitaxy for ultra-flat copper and beyond—boosting speed/reliability for AI-era interconnects and advanced materials. |
| Cyclopic Core Technology | Patented electric drive integrating drive/steer/brake/suspension with a centerless wheel—AMRs for logistics and last-mile with 360° maneuverability. |
| Eztia | Eztia engineers advanced cooling materials to maximise human performance in extreme heat. Its HydraVolt™ tunable polymer platform integrates into existing clothing/gear and has been shown to reduce skin temperature by ~10 °C for up to six hours of strenuous activity. HydraVolt recharges with only water—no batteries, refrigeration, or electricity—and is deployed by U.S. military personnel and international construction conglomerates. |
| GROUNDUP.AI Pte. Ltd. | Cognitive Maintenance using proprietary sensors + AI agents to detect hidden faults, predict failures, and prescribe actions—cutting downtime across industries. |
| Hyphen SCS | India’s largest integrated warehousing/fulfillment platform: 65k+ verified warehouses, marketplace of 8.2k products, and proprietary SaaS Warehouse Book. |
| SmartForge Polymers Limited | “SmartForge” bridges proto-to-production for precision plastics: single-micron, production-ready parts in 2–4 weeks—10× lower cost, 20× faster. |
| Phasetrum Inc | CMOS/GaN fabless RF design house (S–Q band PAs, LNAs, beamformers, up/down converters) with turnkey IC/PCB/antenna for SatCom and AESA radar. |
| Photosynthetic B.V. | Volumetric Micro-Lithography for micro-3D polymer structures—sub-micron resolution at high speed; enabling microneedles, membranes, and cell-capture chips. |
| SpeedPox GmbH | On-demand, seconds-fast curing for highly filled, opaque epoxies—>99% energy and process time savings; validated with Tier-1s; Asia scaling via licensing. |
| steelboso | AI-driven procurement for the steel industry—matching buyers and suppliers, reducing sourcing time/costs, and enabling safer, simpler transactions. |
| Stroma Modular Edge AI Systems | Rugged edge-AI devices + node-based workflow engine for industrial safety, quality, and efficiency—on-site processing without privacy trade-offs. |
| Studio Galilei Co., Ltd. | Physical-AI mobility: MaaS Information Platform integrating rail/bus/tourism; on-demand Smart Call Buttons; RIKAride tourism mobility across Korea & SEA. |
| TACTUN | AI-ready controllers + no-code app builder to launch intelligent machinery 5× faster with zero upfront engineering; introducing “vibe coding” for natural-language configs. |