Selangor Accelerator Programme reveals top 30 qualifying startups

The SAP targets startups based in New or Emerging Technologies applicable across industries and verticals such as AI, Blockchain, Cloud computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, IoT, Smart City, and e-Commerce.

After a month of intense promotion, the Selangor Information Technology & E-Commerce Council (SITEC) has concluded its shortlisting of startups eligible for the Selangor Accelerator Programme (SAP) at its Opening Ceremony held in i-City, Shah Alam.

The ceremony, which flagged off the start of the four-month intensive programme, was attended by YB Dato’ Teng Chang Khim, Senior Executive Councillor and Chairman of the Standing Committees for Investment, Industry & Commerce, Small & Medium Enterprise (SME), who gave the opening speech; Gopi Ganesalingam, Vice President, Enterprise Development, MDEC who gave the keynote speech, and Yong Kai Ping, Chief Executive of SITEC, who gave the welcome remarks.

30 teams were chosen out 102 applicants, with many from fields and industries such as e-Commerce, AI, Blockchain, Cloud, IoT, Logistics, Agritech and Biotech, among others.

The SAP targets startups based in New or Emerging Technologies applicable across industries and verticals such as AI, Blockchain, Cloud computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, IoT, Smart City, and e-Commerce, offering them fully-sponsored local and overseas trips, valuable networking opportunities, peer support communities, hands-on workshops, pitching clinics and 1 to 1 mentoring sessions.

“We notice that these Digital Economy trends are not exactly new, and have been around for the past few years. As consumers increasingly look to digital means to obtain goods and services, it is only natural for businesses to upgrade themselves with cutting edge technology to deal with the demands of the Digital Economy,” said Yong Kai Ping, Chief Executive of SITEC.

“The Selangor Accelerator Programme, which would not be possible without the support of the Selangor State Government, allows us to play a direct role in nurturing startups of the future by prepping these startups to be investor ready through refining their business processes, products and operations. It will expose local startups to pitching and networking opportunities with international investors, companies and innovators, as well as access to mentoring with some of the best leaders around.

“Our programme has been incredibly popular since its first run in 2018, with many of our alumni going to greater heights. Alumni Dropee even obtained a USD 350,000 investor funding, and others also received Cradle Fund’s CIP 300 funding”, he added.

After the speeches, all 30 teams went on stage to present their 60-second elevator pitches, which summarises their businesses and aims. The first mentor speed dating session for the programme took place soon after.

List of Qualified Startups

1. Anak2U

Anak2U is an easy all-inclusive solution designed for teachers and parents when managing children day to day activities in Early Education centers. We help the centers by digitalizing student report, managing attendance, reducing manual administrative work allowing teachers to focus on student’s education progress while bringing classroom experience to parents.

2. BEWE (Melon Network Tech)

BeWe is a Community powered Platform, where members of this community will be able to stand side by side to contribute, manage and share resources to protect each other from future risks on medical & accidental expenses. Not an insurance. Not a charity. BeWe is a Crowd sharing platform.

3. BlueBee Technologies Sdn Bhd (ERTH)

ERTH: E-waste Recycling Through Heroes is a service that provides free on-demand pickup of electronic waste and pays a portion of the recycling revenue to consumers and businesses to encourage a higher recycling rate. The company was selected among the Top 3 Social Innovations in Malaysia 2019 by Alipay-NUS.

4. Chupspace

A website that allow users to discover, list and book a unique space that is otherwise unused

5. Datashi

An A.I. Backup Cloud & Archiving Solution. (SAAS Application)

6. Deemples Golf

Deemples helps thousands of golfers find their next golf game to play at. Golfers either join available games on the app, or create one and let others join them. Available for courses in MY, SG, ID, PH, and Brunei.

7. Easy Pay Transfers Sdn Bhd

EasyPay Transfers is a disruptive online money transfer platform and licensed as a remittance service provider under the Money Services Business Act by Bank Negara Malaysia. By harnessing the power of financial technology, we are able to provide a cheaper, convenient, transparent, faster and interactive medium to our customers to perform overseas remittance or trade payments.

8. EatFun Sdn Bhd

Eatfun.my is empowering housewife, retirees and talent chefs who can stay at home to cook authentic homecooked food and we provide a platform to market to consumer. Our main purpose is to help homecooked chef go start business easy and earn a living for a simple way.

9. Engage Blink Sdn Bhd

Engage is a self-managed loyalty program pioneering a low cost yet powerful solution that empowers any retailer to design, create and launch personalized loyalty campaign in just 10 minutes.

10. Everleaf Eco Solutions Sdn Bhd

Everleaf is a transparent grocery platform that allows purchaser to know their food source and it gives a helping hand to the local farmer by transforming the way they sell and market. Consumer able to purchase trustable food produce with doorstep delivery service in Everleaf.

11. GetRunner

GetRunner is on-remand runner services and a professional platform that connects customers with runners. Our services is food delivery, dispatch, surprise delivery, shopping, bill payments and speacial task. The reason why we started this business is for helping management officer mainly who have no time to go out to buy food and do personal errand because they are tied up with office hour and for helping exisiting runner who had problem in unstable income and no Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in runner services. Besides, we want helping business owner who had no time and much money to do delivery service and COD especially business owner in food industry.

12. Global Carpit Sdn Bhd

Carpit is an app that helps car owners find trusted tyre shops nearby to buy tyres at transparent prices. Carpit makes it easy to service car and tyres, ultimately improving car and road safety.

13. Gobuilders Netsoft Sdn Bhd (GOLOG)

GOLOG is a comprehensive delivery platform that offers different types of speedy delivery services that allow business owners (B2B) to hand off managing their delivery and focus on their businesses. GOLOG connect the logistic world and move into speed delivery from fastest 45minutes delivery until 24 hours delivery services.

14. Golazo Football

Centralized platform for social football games. The app connects teams, fields, referees and tournaments to make arranging football games faster and easier.

15. Jomparking (Jomparkir Sdn Bhd)

JomParkir Sdn Bhd is a homegrown Smart Parking Solutions Provider that was established in Selangor. Our End-to-End solution aim to solve pain-points in parking industry. We are steadily gaining traction and target to expand our operations through major cities in the nation and aiming Indonesia as our next market.

16. Kongsi Play

Kongsi Play is a peer-to-peer console game rental platform for physical PS4 and Nintendo Switch games. It is just like Airbnb, but instead of listing homes, users list their unused video games for rent. In this way, users can now generate passive income from their games and also rent games from their peers at a very low cost.

17. Kravve

Kravve is an impact-driven enterprise that aims to empower the low-income in Southeast Asia to breakout from their financial constraints. We enable them to make money from their cooking skills with our speciality marketplace, and grants them credit score so they can gain access to financial products even without a bank account.

18. Life Origin Enterprise

We are producing sustainable insect protein to become the alternative protein source for the fish and poultry market using food waste or disposable media. The production is a zero waste cycle and done in controlled and contained manner to ensure the quality products and operation sustainability.

19. MeLAB Global Sdn Bhd

We built an app that uses QR Code and facial recognition system as a smart lock for apartments, condominiums and gated properties.

20. MY Psychology (MY PSYCH PLT)

MY Psychology is Malaysia's first online psychology educational platform with more than 200k followers to date. On average, our post reached 1 million people organically per month. We aim to increase psychology literacy levels and promote psychological wellbeing through easily digestible and practical psychology knowledge for ordinary people.

21. MyWeekendPlan

My Weekend Plan is the leading events and team building company in Malaysia that develops and provides the world’s most unique and fun indoor and outdoor activities. We deliver exhilarating experiences for corporates through our variety of experience, games and concepts. My Weekend Plan is the perfect solution for team building, corporate events, large-scale events, birthday parties and more. We have over 1,000+ happy clients, working with a diverse clientele ranging from developer, multinational corporations, SMEs and consumers.

22. NEXPlatform Sdn Bhd

We help property developer to improve customer experience and property sales!

23. PrimeXcess (Oracle Worldwide Sdn Bhd)

We envision to create a platform where access and managing access is done in a much simpler manner with the help of smartphone capabilities and PrimeXcess hardware technology. PrimeXcess has evolved from a concept to a developed product with a proven working concept with the help of a great team put together. The next stage would be completing the balance development of the back end and focus on the market penetration

24. PadeeTech Sdn Bhd

PadeeTech currently has a patent product, known as a single seedling nursery tray for rice farming. The aim is to revolutionize rice planting by making it more efficient, precise and effective, whilst reducing costs, which helps to increase the rice yield thus maximize the income of the small-scale farmers.

25. Petotum Solutions

Petotum is a marketplace for pet hotels. Just like OYO but for pets, Petotum provide quality services from pet hotels such as pet boarding, grooming, taxi and training. Petotum aims to be the leader in the pet service industry with the largest Pet Hotel Branded Network in Malaysia by 2020.

26. Seeds Job Fair

An engagement focused virtual career fair for Southeast Asia top talents and companies. It is targeted based on specific job seekers demographic and industry. It is a white label event which allows it to be run and hosted by the community.

27. Sling App

Simplified job-hunting mobile app that instantly connect jobseekers to jobs nearby in a swipe. The app offers employers unlimited job postings that will be shown to applicants nearby in digital card format, ranked by nearest jobs first. Applicants who match the job requirements will be interviewed automatically by SlingApp AI.

28. The Wedding Asia

The Wedding Asia is an integrated wedding platform that connecting engaged couples and wedding vendors with our wedding planner tools to simplify wedding planning anytime, anywhere with just a mobile device. With our network of wedding vendors & venues, we can solve the problem of more than 200,000 engaged couples every year.

29. VITA

VITA is the first step to digital health where we make health accessible, easy to understand and give insight to the risk of future disease.

30. Whoop App Sdn Bhd

Whoop is an online platform that connects merchants and their consumers, for their contest management and marketing promotional needs. Say goodbye to paper form submission, the promotion banners you just missed, and lack of information about the promotions you are interested in.