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.
Find out moreUniStop 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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Innovators who are shortlisted and have demonstrated success in Stellar Lifestyle’s Innovation Programme, as well as the potential to scale quickly, may be evaluated for investment opportunities of up to S$495,000 throughout the program.
Exclusive Innovation Support and Resource Package
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Innovators who make it to the shortlist will receive an Innovation Support and Resource Package that includes various resources such as mentors, consultants, workshops, labs, co-working offices, and incubation platforms provided by SMRT, SUTD, iMDA, and JRE.
Note: These resources are in-kind contributions and are subject to change.
Participate in SUTD’s ARISE Programme and SUTD’s ESG Impact Lab
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Innovators who are shortlisted are welcomed to take part in two programs, namely the SUTD ARISE Program and SUTD ESG Impact Lab.
The ARISE Program is a series of workshops designed to assist innovators in creating a venture from their technology. During these workshops, participants will develop business strategies, operational plans, financial projections, and pitching strategies.
The SUTD ESG Impact Lab is a series of masterclasses aimed at educating innovators on developments and opportunities in ESG, as well as how they can achieve their corporate social responsibility objectives.
Exclusive opportunity to penetrate the Japanese market
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The initiative includes the integration of mentorship into the Japanese market, providing language barrier support to facilitate smooth communication, and offering POC validation platforms in the Japan Rail Club ecosystem. These efforts aim to help innovators navigate the market and increase their chances of success in Japan.
To facilitate co-working on-the-go, One&Co offers complimentary services to shortlisted start-ups to use their conducive space.
Gain access to IMDA Pixel innovation and incubation space
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Prototyping Lab
ARVR Lab
UI/UX Lab
Production Facilities
Co-Working Spaces
Meeting & Events Area
PIXEL is an incubation and innovation space by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. It focusses on helping corporates build customer-centric digital experiences through design thinking, UI/UX and digital storytelling consultancies. PIXEL also scales start-ups in the areas of data & AI, Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality, the Internet of Things and Robotics. PIXEL brings together an ecosystem of startups, corporates, government, ecosystem partners and global players.
Gain access to these extra resources by signing up on IMDA’s Open Innovation Platform.
Up to 10 startups
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Up to 10 startups
Up to $70k each
Innovation and Support Package
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Upcoming Sector Wide Challenge
Omnichannel Shopping Experience
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What is a sector wide challenge?
A sector wide challenge seeks for a solution which encompasses challenges forced by the industry as a whole, in this case – the retail industry. This sector wide challenge is supported by the Singapore Retail Associaton (SRA). SRA will support Stellar’s outreach efforts, and will assist in raising awareness and knowledge of the problem statement and solution to the greater sector, if appropriate, after success (or failure) of the pilot, through our media channels and engagement tools, such as our events, EDM and FB.
Sector Wide Grants from IMDA
The shortlisted Participant of this challenge will receive the above larger pool of grants from Stellar Lifestyle and IMDA.
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?
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?
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
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