{"id":426,"date":"2014-06-16T22:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2014-06-16T22:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:16:48","slug":"top-startups-echelon-2014-tech-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/top-startups-echelon-2014-tech-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Top startups from Echelon 2014 tech festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Echelon Singapore 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/e27.co\/echelon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Echelon<\/a>\u00a02014 has again proved that its concept of <strong>Satellite events<\/strong> happening before the grand finale in Singapore is the best way to get credible startups on stage.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>3 months roaming the Asia-Pacific region with 10 competitions<\/strong> to get the best of fast-growing countries (Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam), the e27 team did a final selection of 10 top startups to watch out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL7GA7TK-7TIxYJHOZd03kU6z5rtAauczB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Taamkru (e-learning), Ambiclimate (energy) and iChef (F&amp;B) are Echelon 2014 top startups<\/h2>\n<p>You can find here the full video coverage of the pitches of all 10 startups including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The winner (aka <em>\u00ab\u00a0South-East Asia&rsquo;s most promising startup\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>) <strong><a title=\"Taamkru app\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/sg\/app\/taamkru\/id738569152?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taamkru<\/a><\/strong>, an education app from <strong>Thailand<\/strong> which plays on the shame of <strong>Tiger mothers who want to benchmark their kids&rsquo; performance<\/strong>. Yes, the game makes it fun to learn, and yes, it&rsquo;s an incredibly Asian behavior it&rsquo;s mimicking in a high-tech way. Congrats for an amazing stage performance as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-427\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Taamkru-e-learning-app-thailand-tiger-mom-mother-echelon-2014-winner-innovation-is-everywhere-martin-pasquier-3.png\" alt=\"Taamkru e-learning app thailand tiger mom mother echelon 2014 winner innovation is everywhere martin pasquier\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The People&rsquo;s Choice Awards (by popular vote on a dedicated app) went to <a title=\"AmbiClimate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ambiclimate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AmbiClimate<\/strong><\/a>, an internet of things hardware item made in <strong>Hong Kong<\/strong> which <strong>learns from you and me to adapt the air-con flow<\/strong>, solving again a very Asian issue. Since I&rsquo;ve met Julian and his team, I can&rsquo;t touch the remote control or my AC without thinking of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ambiclimate-hong-kong-startup-aircon-smart-home-internet-of-things-innovation-is-everywhere-echelon-singapore-2014-winners-3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-428\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ambiclimate-hong-kong-startup-aircon-smart-home-internet-of-things-innovation-is-everywhere-echelon-singapore-2014-winners-3.png\" alt=\"Ambiclimate hong kong startup aircon smart home internet of things innovation is everywhere echelon singapore 2014 winners\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The award provided by the Global Brain Foundation went to <strong><a title=\"IChef app Taiwan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ichef.tw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iChef<\/a><\/strong>, an B2B app from <strong>Taiwan<\/strong> for restaurants and food managers, to help them <strong>better manage the flow of clients, orders, and invoice<\/strong>, while also helping the queue management of venues and the stocks. Again, the whole team from Taiwan made an energetic show while not forgetting the main topic: they have the figure to back up their plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iChefEchelonJapanSatelliteInnovationiseverywheresingapore-southeast-asia-emerging-markets-startup-scene-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/innovao.cluster030.hosting.ovh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iChefEchelonJapanSatelliteInnovationiseverywheresingapore-southeast-asia-emerging-markets-startup-scene-3.jpg\" alt=\"iChefEchelonJapanSatelliteInnovationiseverywheresingapore southeast asia emerging markets startup scene\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find back our previous article covering Echelon Singapore 2014 on the <a title=\"future of e-commerce trends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/future-e-commerce-trends-singapore-based-redmart-founder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future of E-commerce <\/a>with Redmart founder Roger Egan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echelon\u00a02014 has again proved that its concept of Satellite events happening before the grand finale in Singapore is the best way to get credible startups on stage. After 3 months roaming the Asia-Pacific region with 10 competitions to get the best of fast-growing countries (Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,52,49,51,87],"tags":[46,173,169,61,174,90,57,102,103,175,176],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continents","category-events-innovators","category-innovators-category","category-markets-category","category-startups-innovators","tag-asia","tag-e-learning","tag-echelon","tag-education","tag-energy","tag-hong-kong","tag-singapore","tag-south-east-asia","tag-startups","tag-taiwan","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}