Sponsors, partners and collaborators

Onz is a Bruneian startup offering premier delivery services, including medicine delivery and cross-border parcel collection.

Fitness Zone is a health club founded by Wu Chun. With the motto to ‘Live Fit, Love Life’, Fitness Zone encourages everyone to have a passion for fitness and to have fun while getting fit – combining affordability with world-class standards fitness programs. Fitness Zone also strive to impact lives through fitness and wellness.

Track&ROLL is a Brunei-based technology company that focuses on providing comprehensive and easy to use cloud-based HR and payroll solutions that comes with Brunei TAP/SCP calculation. We emphasize on delivering simple solutions that are most commonly faced by most Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) together with strong local product and customer support at an affordable rate to the business community in Brunei.

GarGeon is the leading solutions provider of cloud-based waste management system in Malaysia. We provide businesses the transparency of all waste and recycling operational activities, including robust insights into customers' waste streams to better manage, optimize services, and reduce waste. GarGeon built an ecosystem to help businesses divert as much waste from landfill as possible to achieve the sustainability goal and maximize the value from customers' waste stream.

An anonymous sponsor had generously supported our core initiative in empowering the top global entrepreneurial talents, as well as to promote ethical business and healthy competition within our global economy.

Pocket is Brunei’s first cashless mode of payment (mobile application) in Brunei that can link multiple Visa or Mastercard debit/credit cards.

An anonymous sponsor had generously sponsored our virtual conferencing solution powered by Zoom Events. Multi-session, multi-day, virtual or hybrid, Zoom Events simplifies event management with advanced features that help you create a successful virtual experience your audience will not forget.

1337 Ventures is a Malaysian venture capital (VC) firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups. We are Malaysia's first accelerator programme, having started in 2012. Through Leet Academy, we've accelerated the growth of over 1,200+ startups from 5 different countries by pioneering the Design Thinking Methodology and Design Sprints in Malaysia. We work with corporations on bespoke accelerators, corporate innovation, and digital transformation to help individuals and organisations become more resilient. Among our clients are FWD, NTIS, Bank Negara Malaysia, Khazanah Nasional, Telekom, Digi, MDEC, MaGIC, CIMB, RHB, and Maybank, to name a few. To democratise fundraising, Leet Capital is an Equity Crowdfunding (EFC) platform licensed by the Securities Commission (SC) that connects firms with angels and regular investors. We also created http://Muru-ku.com , a one-stop portal with 800+ Malaysia Startups Listed, VC, Grants, Events & Problem Statements to bridge the gap between startups, corporations, and the government.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) was established in 1996 as the lead agency to implement the MSC Malaysia initiative. Today, we are an agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia (KKMM) with a close to 25-year track-record of successfully leading the ICT and digital economy growth in Malaysia. Malaysia’s central geographical location in ASEAN, its young & digitally-savvy population, multicultural & multilingual tapestry, easy access to capital & regional markets, ease of doing business, certainty of business operating environment and legal system, comparative value and high standard of living, makes it the natural choice to land and grow your digital business here. MDEC’s aspiration is to firmly establish Malaysia as the Heart of Digital ASEAN, a regional digital powerhouse launching global champions to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution, ensuring our digital economy will drive shared prosperity for all Malaysians.

TEGAS Digital Village, alongside TEGAS Digital Innovation Hub, are catalytic initiatives undertaken by the Sarawak government through TEGAS to support startup growth and promote digital innovation and entrepreneurship, in line with the Sarawak Digital Economy Strategy 2018-2022 and Post Covid Development Strategy 2030. It aims to empower startups and social enterprises to scale sustainably, facilitate technology transfer, and commercialization via public-private partnerships, as well as to enhance the digital innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Sarawak. Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (TEGAS) was established in 2012 as a charitable trust dedicated to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in Sarawak. Governed by the Board of Trustees, TEGAS is chaired by The Honourable Datuk Haji Len Talif Salleh, Deputy Minister of Urban Planning, Land Administration and Environment of Sarawak.

Mole is an all-in-one digital business card and mobile website platform for professionals and entrepreneurs. With Mole, users can create a mobile website in seconds, post blog updates, create product catalogues, and update card information in real time. Founded by Melly Ling and Soung Rong in 2022, Mole is a sustainable tool for creating connections beyond paper.

Taylor’s University is a world-class international university which aims to provide its students with outstanding teaching and cutting edge learning facilities. Our objective is to produce successful graduates who are first choice for leading employers. We also help our students to graduate with the ambition and entrepreneurial skills to establish their own successful businesses. Work experience gained through internship is an integral part of many of our programmes.

The Universiti Brunei Darussalam is emerging as one of the leading institutions of higher education in Asia. It was established in 1985, opening its doors to the first intake of 176 students. Since then, UBD has seen an increase in the number of graduates, the introduction of new academic programmes, the enhancement of infrastructure and the development of graduate studies.

roiquant is a business decision support system offering founders actionable insights to build strong competitive businesses and generate high return on investment. roiquant’s one-stop-shop solution offers actionable insights from ideation to competitive analysis to business modeling to prototyping to market validation to risk analysis to data-driven fundraising to generating high ROI.

AWS Activate provides startups with a host of benefits, including free AWS credits, AWS support plan credits, and architecture guidance to help grow your business. Activate benefits are designed to give you the right mix of tools, resources, and expert support so you can succeed with AWS while optimizing performance, managing risk, and keeping costs under control.