1430hrs - 1730hrs SGT (GMT +8)
We are excited to invite you to join us for The Liveability Challenge 2024 Grand Finale on 17th April at Ecosperity Week, Marina Bay Sands.
This year’s edition of TLC received a record-breaking 1,000 entries from more than 100 countries for our two tracks: climate change, and food and nutrition.
After a rigorous selection process led by our committee of experts, seven finalists have been shortlisted with innovations such as sustainable aviation fuel and cricket-derived protein made the shortlist for the first time.
These climate tech start-ups — GAFT, Green COP, Nandina REM, Cricket One, Terra Bioindustries Inc, tHEMEatCompany Pte Ltd and bound4blue — will take the stage on 17 April 2024 to compete for S$2.5 million in funding where they will pitch to our panel of established investors.
One winner in each of the Climate Change and Food & Nutrition tracks will win a million-dollar grant, with an additional S$500,000 investment opportunities being offered by our strategic partners.
Our programme will also feature the TLC Innovation Dialogue which will showcase our previous winners, tech leaders and investors in a discussion on bridging the valley of death for climate technologies.
Join us for the Grand Finale at Ecosperity Week as we watch the finalist teams vie for the million-dollar prizes, and connect with the sustainability ecosystem.
Climate change
1. Team: bound4blue (Spain)
Solution: Wind-assisted propulsion suction sails to reduce fuel consumption for ships by 40 per cent.
2. Team: GAFT (The Netherlands)
Solution: Scaling the supply of carbon negative sustainable aviation fuel by producing clean ‘used cooking oil’ substitute from carbon dioxide.
3. Team: Green COP (Singapore)
Solution: Decarbonising maritime transport by 50 per cent with high energy density drop-in biofuel blend produced from agri-waste.
4. Team: Nandina REM (Singapore)
Solution: Producing industry-grade, circular carbon fibre materials recovered from aircraft with more than 70 per cent carbon emissions reduction.
Food and nutrition
5. Team: Cricket One (Vietnam)
Solution: Scalable nutritious superfood that has a carbon footprint 100 times lower than beef.
6. Team: Terra Bioindustries Inc (Canada)
Solution: High-value proteins and sugars production at 50 per cent lower emissions from the valorisation of agri-food side streams.
7. Team: tHEMEatCompany Pte Ltd (Singapore)
Solution: Vegan ingredient that makes alternative protein products look, cook, smell and taste like real meats.
TLC will award a grant prize of up to S$1million for the winner in each track, and an additional $500,000 investment prizes will be awarded by our strategic partners.
Founder and Managing Director, Eco-Business
Principal, Granite Asia
Professor, UCLA Engineering and Co-Founder, SeaChange
CEO and Founder, TeOra Pte. Ltd.
Director of Partnerships, Eco-Business
Thank you for the overwhelming interest! Registrations for this event has closed.
Temasek Foundation
Temasek Foundation International is a Singapore-based non-profit organisation under the philanthropic arm of the Singapore state sovereign fund Temasek Holdings. Temasek has established 17 endowments since 1974 focused on promoting social and cultural interaction, education, and aid for the disadvantaged in Asia.
It is under the financial oversight of Temasek Trust, the endowment trustee of Temasek Holdings. The other foundations under the trust's financial oversight include Temasek Foundation Cares, Temasek Foundation Connects, Temasek Foundation Nurtures, Temasek Foundation Innovates and Temasek Foundation Ecosperity.
As of 2016, over S$2 billion has been given to community initiatives covering a wide range of sectors and demographic groups locally and regionally, benefitting more than 300,000 people in Singapore and across Asia.
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) was formed as a statutory board under the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) on 1 April 2019 to oversee food safety and food security from farm-to-fork. MEWR has been renamed as the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE). The SFA brings together food-related functions carried out by the former Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore, the National Environment Agency and the Health Sciences Authority.
As the lead agency for food-related matters, SFA’s mission is to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore. SFA works hand-in-hand with the industry and consumers to grow our three “food baskets” – Diversify import sources, Grow local, and Grow overseas, as well as ensure food safety from farm to fork. SFA also partners food businesses to strengthen capabilities, tap on technologies to raise productivity, undertake research to develop new lines of business, and catalyse industry transformation to ensure food security
Singapore Food Agency
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Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund is a strategic impact investment fund that is part of the IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group. The fund is empowered with the mandate to invest in start-ups and funds with the potential to drive positive impact in the agriculture and food tech space, well-being and sustainability. The Wellbeing Economy Fund focuses on early-stage direct investments and venture funds that operate within these specific verticals, seeking potential synergies across the group's businesses units and external businesses. The fund takes an active relationship as an investor with the view of shaping the future of impact investments and the stewarding of humanity towards the era of well-being and sustainability.
Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund
With the clarity of intent and purpose, we chase impact and deliver performance. We maximize our efforts on decarbonization, investing in entrepreneurs whose exceptional innovations decarbonizes the world. Our support enables entrepreneurs to achieve what is better for planet Earth.
Trirec
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