Altent Renewables Crowned as Grand Winner of TECH PLANTER Demo Day in Singapore 2024!
On 25th May 2024, Leave a Nest Singapore had conducted the TECH PLAN DEMO DAY in SINGAPORE 2024 at NTU Innovation Port@North, 63 Nanyang Drive, The Arc-Learning Hub North (LHN). This is our 11th year of TECH PLANTER since started in 2014. We are continuing our TECH PLAN Demo Day in Singapore to support deep technologies emerging from Singapore that could solve deep issues in the Singapore or around the world.
This year, 9 finalists were chosen from 38 applications to pitch their core technology, business model and issues that they want to solve in front of a panel of judges from Leave a Nest Singapore, Real Tech Holdings Singapore, Delightex Pte. Ltd., National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC), Procter & Gamble, Ezaki Glico Co. Ltd, JR East Business Development SEA Pte.Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Centre Pte. Ltd. and participants who were present at the event. The finalists were grouped as Innovative Automation, Bio Pathology and Green Tech.
GRAND WINNER Award
Team Name: Altent Renewables
Award inclusions: S$ 3,000 Cash prize and Invitation to TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2024
Theme: Altent Hydrothermal Process transforms wet waste into fuels and minerals.
Mr. Wee Han Tan receiving Grand Winner award from (from the left) Mr. Long Quan (P&G), Dr. Ho Chaw Sing (NAMIC) and Dr. Aya Wada (Delightex)
LEAVE A NEST Award
Team Name: Spinoff Robotics
Award inclusions: Invitation to TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2024
Theme: Aerial Laundering and Inspection with Corded End-effector (ALICE) drone helps simplify and automate costly, inefficient and dangerous high-elevation cleaning jobs.
Dr. Shawndy Lee receiving Leave a Nest award from Mr. Sohei Maekawa, LVNS SG Director (left)
JR EAST Award
Team Name: MYCL
Award Inclusions: S$ 2,000 Cash prize
Theme: MYCL Develop mycelium-based material as a leather replacement and composite for building and automotive application.
Mr. Adi Reza receiving JR East award from Mr. Kouhei Miyajima (JR East) (left)
GLICO Award
Team Name: Cuprina
Award Inclusions: S$ 2,000 Cash prize
Theme: On-Demand Insect Pollination for Fruit and Seed Generation for Vertical Farm
Mr. Carl Baptista receiving Glico award from Mr. Norio Asahara (Glico) (left)
MITSUI CHEMICALS Award
Team Name: i2start
Award Inclusions: S$ 2,000 Cash prize
Theme: Decentralised Immune Profiling for Point-of-care Sepsis Diagnosis
Dr. Kerwin Kwek Zeming receiving Mitsui Chemicals award from Dr. Ryo Niishiro (Mitsui Chemicals) (left)
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Award
Team Name: Eureka Robotic
Award Inclusions: S$ 2,000 Cash prize
Theme: Robotics and AI technology for Industrial Automations.
Mr. Pham Tien Hung receiving Mitsubishi Electric award from Mr. Kenji Minefuji (Mitsubishi electric) (left)
REAL TECH HOLDINGS SINGAPORE Award
Team Name: Craft Health
Award inclusions: S$ 2,000 Cash prize
Theme: Craft Health 3D Printing Platform. Brief issue: Automating Mass Customisation in Pharmaceutical Compounding 
Dr. GOH Wei Jiang receiving Real Tech Holdings Singapore award from Mr. Henry Tao (RTHD Singapore) (left)
Congratulations to all Winners and Participants!
We look forward to the contribution of the winners as well as the finalists in solving world issues. Also, We would like all the TECH PLANTER in Singapore 2024 applicants and Leave a Nest would like work with them in the future.
The Leave a Nest team would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all the judges for their invaluable feedback and wise advice. We believe that their contributions have played a crucial role in the growth and progress of all the finalists, empowering them to further develop their technologies and ventures. Additionally, we would like to extend our deep appreciation to our partners, Real Tech Holdings Singapore, Delightex Pte. Ltd., National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) , Procter & Gamble, Ezaki Glico Co. Ltd, JR East Business Development SEA Pte.Ltd, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Mitsui Chemicals Singapore R&D Centre Pte. Ltd.
The journey of TECH PLANTER is far from over, and we are excited to announce that TECH PLANTER ASIA FINAL 2024 will be happening on the 24th of August 2024 at Aerodyne Campus, Cyberjaya in Malaysia! Stay tuned for further updates and announcements regarding this upcoming event.
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