Top 20 Finalists Shortlisted in Asia Pacific tech startup competition OzAPP Awards

The OzAPP Awards have shortlisted the Top 20 Finalists in the 2014/15 competition that seeks the most innovative tech startups from the Asia Pacific region.

This year, the competition has seen over 210 startups enter their idea for a mobile, web or cloud app product or early-stage concept. Three finalists in the Top 20 were selected from outside Australia, with two coming from Hong Kong and one from Singapore.

The competition awards the finest young entrepreneurs and startups from the Asia Pacific region with cash and resource prizes to accelerate their ideas.

Most notably, QPrize Australia is awarded to the winner of the OzAPP Awards. A USD$100,000 convertible note from Qualcomm Ventures is on offer for the third year running in the OzAPP Awards competition. A prize that not only represents significant cash, but allows the winner to utilise Qualcomm Ventures’ global network reach, which spans almost every corner of the earth.

For the Top 20 Finalists there are also prizes from Rackspace and Hootsuite, both of which will provide further opportunities to develop and promote each startup’s app within the Asia Pacific region. Prizes for the Top 20 Finalists include $24,000 worth of hosting, education, mentoring and marketing support from Rackspace and 6 months free service on Hootsuite’s social media platforms.

The Top 20 Finalists, selected from all across the Asia Pacific region are:

• APE Mobile, Perth WA
• Assignmenthero, Melbourne VIC
• Churn, Pelican Waters, QLD
• Class, South Melbourne, VIC
• Disrupt., Sydney, NSW
• ePAT (Electronic Pain Assessment Technologies) For Kids, Perth WA
• Freight Exchange, Sydney, NSW
• High Ferritin, Perth WA
• JOBDOH, Hong Kong
• Joy Sprouts – Kids Preschool Education, Hong Kong
• Kindy, Sydney, NSW
• MobiMe, Sydney, NSW
• OnFlow, Surry Hills, NSW
• Pamperologist, Singapore
• PEERS (Paediatric Evaluation of Emotions Relationships and
• Socialisation),Melbourne, VIC
• realAs, South Yarra, VIC
• Simply Wall St, Perth WA
• Tap Into Safety Interactive Safety Training Tools, Gwelup WA
• Two Hoots App + Platform, Fortitude Valley, QLD
• WiseTime, West Leederville, WA

OzAPP Awards Advisory Committee Chairperson Larry Lopez endorsed the 20 exceptional finalist startups, ahead of what will be a busy period for the OzAPP Awards, “It has been difficult as usual to narrow down the list to 20, but we’ve selected some with terrific potential. We believe these teams are strong and that their startups have opportunity for some real traction” said Mr. Lopez.

OzAPP Awards Co-Founder Rohan McDougall, Director of IP & Commercialisation and Curtin University also oversaw the judging process shared his thoughts on a group of serious contenders, “It was encouraging to receive 210 entries from nine different countries and to review the quality across the board. There are certainly some entrants with global ideas, it is now a case for the final international Judging Panel to gather and select the Top 5 Finalists who will pitch at the West Tech Fest” said Mr. McDougall.

Before the Top 5 Finalists are selected, the Top 20 teams are required to undertake a live video pitch with a senior member of the OzAPP Awards Judging Committee. The live video pitch will test the ability of each startup at convincingly pitching their ideas in a high-pressure situation.

The OzAPP Awards Judging Committee will then gather and review each video pitch, to shortlist the Top 20 Finalists down to 5 teams, who will then go on to pitch their ideas at the final event The West Tech Fest on 18 February at the Perth Town Hall.

The Top 5 startup teams will be flown over from all across the Asia Pacific to pitch at this exciting event which hosts some of the biggest names in technology all over the world including Former Senior VP Engineering at Twitter, Chris Fry and CEO/Founder Voxer, Tom Katis.

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For more information on the West Tech Fest event and the list of international speakers please visit: http://ozapp.com.au/the-west-tech-fest/

To view the full list of the Top 20 Finalists please visit: http://ozapp.com.au/201415-top-20-finalists/

[update] For the actual top 65, have a look at the list below;

1. airMoov – Entrant: Taha Sabih
2. APE Mobile – Entrant: Matt Edwards
3. Assignmenthero – Entrant: Shahed Kamal
4. Beaconmaker App – Entrant: John Kueh
5. Big Forest – Entrant: Reg Mifflin
6. BizForms – Entrant: Ben Roetger
7. Churn – Entrant: Nick Drewe
8. Class – Entrant: Sam Lee
9. CodeNgo – Entrant: Chris Jones
10. Digital Keys – Entrant: Steve Dunn
11. Digital Services Infrasructure (DSI) – Entrant: Ranga Abeyweera
12. Disrupt – Entrant: Gary Elphick
13. Ediply – Entrant: Peter Chapman
14. ePat – Entrant: Jeff Hughes
15. Formula Legend – Entrant: Nathan Harper
16. Freight Exchange – Entrant: Cate Hull
17. GeckoLife – Entrant: Rajeev Gupta
18. GeoMoby – Entrant: Chris Baudia
19. High Ferritin – Entrant: Peter Bentley
20. InstaQuote – Entrant: Michael O’Leary
21. JOBDOH – Entrant: Xania Wong
22. Joy Sprouts – Entrant: Suzanne So
23. Juto – Entrant: Mike Cunnen
24. Kindom – Entrant: Gry Stene
25. Kindy – Entrant: Hugh Podmore
26. KIS – Entrant: John Sullivan
27. Larson Lewis Technologies – Entrant: Alex Larson
28. Lodie – Entrant: Gabrielle Kelly
29. Measure My Size – Entrant: Nick Unsworth
30. meToo! – Entrant: Patrick Chugh
31. Mobilyser – Entrant: Robbie Adams
32. mobiMe – Entrant: Midu Chandra
33. MoodMission – Entrant: David Bakker
34. Mothers Groupie – Entrant: Richard Sexton
35. myEvidence – Entrant: Tung Tran
36. mypresences.com – Entrant: Paul Gordon
37. Near – Entrant: Isaac Vigil
38. Numbeat – Entrant: Craig Speelman
39. OnFlow – Entrant: Ian Fowler
40. Pamperologist – Entrant: Sophia Lin
41. pantree.co – Entrant: Leigh Sherman
42. PEERS – Entrant: James Dromey
43. Pepster – Entrant: Elliot Smith
44. Pioneer Road Connect – Entrant: Jessica Oliver
45. Prezentt – Entrant: Justin Davies
46. Promise or Pay – Entrant: Jay Boolkin
47. realAs – Entrant: Josh Rowe
48. SCANCAM – Entrant: Eoin Byrne
49. SETScope – Entrant: Tanin Sammanee
50. Sherpa – Entrant: Mathieu Cornillon
51. Simply Wall St. – Entrant: Nick van den Berg
52. Sitevisuals – Entrant: David Shawcross
53. Snapask – Entrant: Bradley Chiang
54. SnapViva – Entrant: Tim Chan
55. StockRadars – Entrant: Mr.Max Kortrakul
56. StreetHawk – Entrant: Linda Parker
57. Swatchcloud – Entrant: Adrian Poon
58. Tap Into Safety Interactive Safety Training Tools – Entrant: Dr Susanne Bahn
59. TARGiT – Entrant: Theresa Lim
60. The Safety Compass – Entrant: Adam Poole
61. Tours medical – Entrant: Justin Louie
62. Two Hoots App + Platform – Entrant: Jo Ucukalo
63. WardConnect – Entrant: Martin Seneviratne
64. Where’s Lois – Entrant: David Newman
65. WiseTime – Entrant: Thomas Haines