Announcing MedTech Actuator Origin 2024 award winners
At the recent MedTech Actuator Showcase in Singapore, we joined ecosystem leaders to celebrate Asia Pacific's next wave of early-stage MedTech, HealthTech and BioTech entrepreneurs - with LumiTRAC taking home the prestigious MedTech Actuator Origin 2024 Award, and UniMedical, Inc. winning the MedTech Actuator People's Choice Award.
The inaugural MedTech Actuator Showcase Singapore event brought together 170+ senior representatives from over 30 key health-innovation organisations. Teams pitching in the final included four from Singapore and one from Japan: 2Strands Bioscience, LumiTRAC, Optikare Technologies, Seamless XR, and UniMedical, Inc.
MedTech Actuator Origin 2024 award: LumiTRAC
Congratulations to Linn Yun Le from LumiTRAC, who was selected by the judges as the winner of this prestigious Origin award for 2024.
"It is really exciting to see such fantastic medical innovations coming through the Singaporean and Japanese ecosystems. The LumiTRAC team delivered an amazing pitch integrating a clear patient need with a strong commercial path."
-- Dr Buzz Palmer, CEO, MedTech Actuator
MedTech Actuator people's choice 2024 award: UniMedical, Inc.
Congratulations to Dai Inagaki from UniMedical, Inc., for being selected for the MedTech Actuator People's Choice 2024 Award. Dai will take home an SGD $1k cash prize.
It takes a village to raise a MedTech startup
The MedTech Actuator Showcase and the specialised acceleration model underpinning all of our programs would not be possible without the support of our innovation ecosystem partners. In particular we would like to thank our Foundation and Product Development partners -- Enterprise Singapore, JETRO, and Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
MedTech Actuator Origin Singapore is supported by Enterprise Singapore. MedTech Actuator Origin Japan is co-organized with JETRO.