A Singaporean battery recycling start-up has been crowned overall winner at this year\u2019s EPIC start-up investment competition hosted by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp.<\/p>\n
One hundred semi-finalists from 28 countries and regions gathered at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on Friday as they competed for the top cash prize of US$60,000 and valuable exposure to dozens of the region\u2019s top investors.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s EPIC \u2013 short for Elevator Pitch International Competition \u2013 marked the ninth edition of the city\u2019s top start-up pitching event and the first time its final was held at the 850-metre-long Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on Victoria Harbour.<\/p>\n
The competition featured three tracks \u2013 fintech, digital healthtech and greentech \u2013 with the winners in each track taking home US$20,000.<\/p>\n
Singapore\u2019s Belli, which builds air cargo software for airlines, won in the fintech category.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s KA Imaging took the prize in digital healthtech, impressing judges with its claim to have created the world\u2019s first spectral X-ray system capable of separating different materials. The firm has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canossa Hospital in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Singaporean battery recycling start-up has been crowned overall winner at this year\u2019s EPIC start-up investment competition hosted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2944,77201,114,77198,45624,1494,1436,3448,77200,85,46,77204,6121,77202,31166,2252,77199,77203],"class_list":["post-121695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alibaba-cloud","tag-baidu-venture","tag-business","tag-canossa-hospital","tag-epic","tag-fintech","tag-greentech","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-science-and-technology-parks","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-ka-imaging","tag-kai-tak-cruise-terminal","tag-nue-battery-materials","tag-paul-chan-mo-po","tag-singapore","tag-takeda-china","tag-terry-wong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}