CJMY
Two Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) won the grand prize in the Techstars Startup Weekend Johor Bahru 2022 with their delivery platform idea called “Jom Tapau”.
Chin Chia Yuan from the Centre for Engineering Education(CEE UTM), and Lee Sin Kuan Gary from the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, led a team of five in the competition.
The idea presented by Chin and Lee was to build a pre-order delivery platform to help university students and working adults save their money for meals.
The prototype presented was a mobile application with user, rider and supplier interfaces.
The Techstars Startup Weekend Johor Bahru 2022 took place at Austin 18 Versatile Business Suites from 19th until 21st August 2022.
Techstars Startup Weekend is the world’s starting point for entrepreneurship, being held in different regions globally.
iPrima Media organised the competition, which was participated by seven teams with various backgrounds of business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing experts, IT experts, and designers from all over Malaysia.
Designers, developers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts have come together to share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.
At the same time, the mentors, investors, co-founders, and sponsors showed the participants how to start up a business from scratch, step by step.
Their goal was to create an environment where passionate, driven, and like-minded people could come together to get things done.
Through the guidance given in the three days events, they hoped to educate and groom more young entrepreneurs in Johor so that they can grow practical ideas in the right direction.
It was also the fourth winning Startup Weekend Johor Bahru for Chin Chia Yuan, who was paired up with first-time participant, Lee Sin Kuan Gary in Startup Weekend Johor Bahru 2022.
Their achievements in startup weekend were Grand Prize Winner TechStars Startup Weekend Johor Bahru, Grand Prize Winner & Crowd Favourite IP SMART Startup Weekend Johor Bahru, Winner of Social Enterprise Category IP SMART Startup Weekend Johor Bahru, and Grand Prize Winner IP SMART Startup Weekend Johor Bahru.
This article originally appeared on UTM Newshub
Admin
