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Feb. 6, 2024
Asia’s Promising Entrepreneurs Platform The Big Spark takes off
Mediacorp’s new business reality programme The Big Spark, has made its highly-anticipated premiere on CNA. It aired last Friday, 2nd February, from 7.00pm to 8.00pm. By: Dylan Low
With the first episode, it showcased seven of 25 total shortlisted participants which makes their first ever appearance on screen in a segment titled, The Quick Pitch. This features them unveiling their most creative yet riveting proposals in an enthralling two-minute showcase.
In a segment with Sopnendu Mohanty, Chairman of Elevandi and Chief FinTech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, his message to the participants was for them to “clearly articulate what problem they are solving for”, and to introduce long-term solutions that could solve traditional and lasting problems.
The episode featured the first company Cellivate Technologies, who described how they revolutionised the world by innovating cells that may replicate and potentially replace animals, in a shocking innovation that might impact the future.
Fellow startup Bixie unveiled its objective of improving financial literacy among women through an educational application that they had created. TenangAI earned its passage to the next round when resident judge Roshni Mahtani Cheung gave the sole “Yes” vote, having felt strongly about their “sincerity and desire to make it work”. Alteredverse and Snap Robotics also secured their places in the next round with their passionate and clear pitches.
Alteredverse demonstrated a Scan-To-Metaverse Services that benefits clients in creating large scale immersive “phygital” worlds that can be adapted into facility management, among many other functions; and the latter showcased their unique “Multimodal Soft Gripper” that removed the needs for pricey tool changes in the food industry.
While every group attempted their best efforts to convince the judges in The Quick Pitch, two participants which was Nutriient, which produces low glycemic index food ingredients, and Talk Your Heart Out, a full-process digital platform that manages mental health support from professionals – failed to persuade the judges and hence dropped from the competition.
The next episode, which premieres on 9th February at 7.00pm to 8.00pm on CNA, features how the next participant groups pitch their innovations to find out who makes it to the next round – The In-Depth Pitch.
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