About Stellarate

Stellarate is Stellar Lifestyle’s Innovation Programme that aims to establish a platform that encourages corporations to engage with investors for co-innovation and product co-creation with a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and boosting revenues.

The initiative aims to construct new business venture verticals that generate additional revenue streams while delivering unique experiences and conveniences that cater to the lifestyle preferences and interest of commuters in Singapore.

Sector Wide Challenge Winners 

BeLive Technology builds easy-to-install video players that allow the world’s most loved brands like Grab, Trendyol, Bukalapak, and Zalora to broadcast interactive videos directly on their websites and mobile apps.” Their solutions has broadcasted more than 5 billion minutes of video for businesses across 9 countries including Japan, Indonesia, Africa and Turkey.

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UniStop Tech is a provider of intelligent retail solutions, dedicated to delivering comprehensive technology support and innovative solutions to the retail industry.

By integrating cutting-edge technologies such as automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data to offer efficient, intelligent, and personalized solutions with time-saving convenience, improved access, reduced costs, and data-driven insights.

Enterprise Challenge Winners

BuzzAR offers a proprietary AI-powered “Face to Avatar” experience to create fun immersive experiences with consented user data through interactive gestures that transforms into actionable business insights for business owners.

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Yzel is a AI platform which help brands to explore potential physical spaces for product display and consignment purpose.

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TapTiles designs and produces smart kinetic tiles which can generate electricity and data from footsteps.

The goal is to set up tiles in high footfall areas to generate enough energy to power the lighting of the area and sufficient data to detect anomalies in crowd movement and even predict disasters like stampedes or over-crowding.

Javis is a fully-automated smart robotics bubble tea vending machine that offers a personalized customer experience by tailoring bubble tea to individual preferences. 

It provides a futuristic convenience, allowing customers to order through an app and collect their drinks within 10 minutes. For those who order on the spot, they are entertained by gamification panels as the drink is freshly prepared for consumption.  

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Introducing the first ever domestic automated lapis baking machine which helps produce freshly-baked kueh lapis 4 times faster than traditional methods to deliver quality products in an efficient manner. 

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Lunchbox Smart Restaurant App is Singapore’s fastest growing Android POS with 1,200+ outlets onboard!

The solution transforms food and beverage outlets to the efficiency of an international fast-food chain.

Armed with more than 300 features, the solution is effective to any form of F&B format – Full Service, Quick Service, Self Service, Grocer Retail and even Cloud Kitchens. 

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UniStop Tech is a provider of intelligent retail solutions, dedicated to delivering comprehensive technology support and innovative solutions to the retail industry.

By integrating cutting-edge technologies such as automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data to offer efficient, intelligent, and personalized solutions with time-saving convenience, improved access, reduced costs, and data-driven insights.

BuzzAR offers a proprietary AI-powered “Face to Avatar” experience to create fun immersive experiences with consented user data through interactive gestures that transforms into actionable business insights for business owners.

BUZZAR

UniStop Tech is a provider of intelligent retail solutions, dedicated to delivering comprehensive technology support and innovative solutions to the retail industry.

By integrating cutting-edge technologies such as automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and big data to offer efficient, intelligent, and personalized solutions with time-saving convenience, improved access, reduced costs, and data-driven insights.

UNISTOP

Yzel is a AI platform which help brands to explore potential physical spaces for product display and consignment purpose.

YZEL

TapTiles designs and produces smart kinetic tiles which can generate electricity and data from footsteps.

The goal is to set up tiles in high footfall areas to generate enough energy to power the lighting of the area and sufficient data to detect anomalies in crowd movement and even predict disasters like stampedes or over-crowding.

TAPTILES

Javis is a fully-automated smart robotics bubble tea vending machine that offers a personalized customer experience by tailoring bubble tea to individual preferences. 

It provides a futuristic convenience, allowing customers to order through an app and collect their drinks within 10 minutes. For those who order on the spot, they are entertained by gamification panels as the drink is freshly prepared for consumption.  

JAVIS

Introducing the first ever domestic automated lapis baking machine which helps produce freshly-baked kueh lapis 4 times faster than traditional methods to deliver quality products in an efficient manner.

MARIE’S LAPIS

Lunchbox Smart Restaurant App is Singapore’s fastest growing Android POS with 1,200+ outlets onboard!

The solution transforms food and beverage outlets to the efficiency of an international fast-food chain.

Armed with more than 300 features, the solution is effective to any form of F&B format – Full Service, Quick Service, Self Service, Grocer Retail and even Cloud Kitchens. 

LUNCHBOX

Benefits of Our Innovation Programme

Obtain up to $495,000 worth of grants

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Exclusive Innovation Support and Resource Package

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Participate in SUTD’s ARISE Programme and SUTD’s ESG Impact Lab

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Exclusive opportunity to penetrate the Japanese market

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Gain access to IMDA Pixel innovation and incubation space

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Up to 10 startups

to
receive

Up to $70,000 each

with a
comprehensive

Innovation and
Support Package

Up to 10 startups

Up to $70k each

Innovation and Support Package

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Upcoming Sector Wide Challenge

Omnichannel Shopping Experience

Sector-Wide

How might we encourage online shoppers to visit physical stores, engage with the products, and make in-store purchases, thereby creating a seamless omnichannel shopping experience?

Fully-Automated Retail and F&B Concepts

How might we imagine new fully-automated and sustainable innovations that improves efficiency, reduce costs and optimise operations for retailers and customers in the retail and food & beverage sectors?

Novel Retail Products and Service Offerings

How might we create new retail product/service offerings that are relevant to commuter needs, and help revitalise and create vibrancy within the retail ecosystem of train stations?

Driving Community
Engagement

How might we transform train stations into destinations that will appeal to the commuting community, using data-driven insights about their interests?

Optimising Marketing with Commuter Demographic Data

How might we effectively capture and analyse the demographic, commuting, and location data of commuters in and around train stations and Out-of-Home media assets near roads, to gain deeper insights into commuters’ needs and preferences and optimise marketing efforts for targeted engagement?

Reimagining Co-Working Spaces

How might we differentiate our Staytion co-working spaces in unique ways that are meaningful to customers (both B2C and B2B), enrich our station ecosystem and create new revenue streams?

Automated Goods Delivery

How might we create a manpower-saving, safe and scalable technical solution to transport large volumes of heavy goods via the staircases of SMRT train stations?

Our Innovation Goals

Optimising Capabilities

Develop the ability to enhance operational efficiency and boost revenue as a solution offered to retail tenants and advertisers operating within the transit network.

Growing Revenue Streams

Establish novel verticals for business ventures based on cutting-edge technologies to generate fresh sources of revenue.

Curating Novel Experiences

Design unique retail and advertising experiences that cater to the lifestyle preferences and interests of commuters in Singapore.

Upcoming Events

Hive Anniversary

Jan 2024

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Milestones

Launch of Hive 2.0 – a showcase for the future of retail through tech-driven solutions, at Esplanade MRT Station.

22 January 2024

14 & 23 August 2023

In partnership with Enterprise Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and East Japan Railway Company, Stellarateheld shark-tank pitches pick the winners of this years’ programme.

Enterprise Singapore and Stellar Lifestyle unveil $500,000 funding to accelerate start-up innovation within the MRT network

25 October 2022

20 October 2022

Launch of a new living lab for SMEs’ business experiments, an Incubation Hub for POC, opens at Esplanade MRT Station

Stellar Lifestyle partners NUS Enterprise to kickstart its inaugural corporate Innovation Programme

1 June 2022