Startup talent from around the region enter muru-D Singapore’s second round

16 AUGUST 2016, SINGAPORE – Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D has announced its
second cohort of startups in Singapore, which attracted hundreds of expressions
of interest and 130 applications from eight countries across Asia.

Over the weekend, the top
23 startups battled it out for their place in cohort #2, which kicks off in
September 2016.

Exemplifying some of the
best entrepreneurial and digital talent in the region, the 11 startups which
make up muru-D Singapore’s second intake include B2B and B2C startups focusing
on a variety of areas such as artificial intelligence for mobile app
development as well as solutions for logistics, fitness and micro-financing.

Annie Parker, Co-Founder
of muru-D said, “The achievements of our inaugural class of startups were outstanding,
with the majority of teams securing funding well before Demo Night. As the
applications started rolling in for this next cohort, we were blown away by the
quality of the ideas, passion and world class entrepreneurial talent wanting to
be a part of muru-D’s program in Singapore.”

muru-D provides each
startup with SGD$40,000 seed capital. muru-D also provides the founders with
access to six months of business support, a collaborative workspace in the
heart of Singapore’s central business district and introductions to world-class
mentors, coaches and investors.

“The 23 teams which came
through our doors for the weekend’s boot-camp and final judging round truly
exceeded expectations. I was particularly pleased to see that well over 40
percent of the teams at bootcamp had female founders. We are excited about
what’s coming out of the region and hope this encourages more budding
entrepreneurs, investors and organisations to contribute and get involved to
help our fantastic startups,” added Ms Parker.

The 11 startups selected
for muru-D Singapore which represent seven countries from across Asia Pacific
are:

·        amtiss, Indonesia – amtiss is a cloud-based asset management solution
that helps business and enterprise minimize an asset’s operating expenses and
maximize its lifetime through predictive maintenance.

·        CheckIt, Vietnam – CheckIt is a mobile app that helps people gain 80%
of the insight of an educational book in 20 minutesanytime and anywhere
they want.

·        FreightKart, Singapore – FreightKart is a comparator and aggregator portal
for end-to-end logistic solutions which integrates with ERP solutions, and a
RESTful API for instant freight shipping quotes.

·        Haftarent, Malaysia – Haftarent matches qualified tenants to vacant real
estate, simplifying rental packages and introducing a suite of online services
dedicated to both tenants and landlords.

·        MoreMate, Thailand – MoreMate is a social network and dating mobile
application for people looking to make new friends, spark a new romance or
share a new experience with people around them or in other parts of the world.

·        PlanforFit, Thailand – PlanforFit is an online tool for people who want to
improve their health and wellbeing.  PlanforFit’s blueprint feature allows
people to get customised eating and exercise programs from top trainers.

·        Kitset.io, New Zealand – Kitset.io uses artificial intelligence to help
novices build cross-platform mobile applications at a tenth of the time and a
fraction of the cost of hiring developers.

·        Teman Usaha, Indonesia – Teman Usaha is a micro-financing application which
connects lenders in Indonesia with high quality loan applicants.

·        Winimy, Singapore – “SeeChat” by Winimy is a
mobile CRM solution that enables consumers to interact with businesses over
messaging without the need to know how the mobile number.

·        YBIT Solutions, Philippines – YBIT Solutions is a modular enterprise
resource-planning solution that is simple and easy to use.

·        Zelos, Indonesia – Zelos is a creative recruitment platform
connecting new talent to brands. They help students and graduates get jobs
through a match-making algorithm, social analytics and assessment test.