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Scheduling Software Proves a Winner
Budding technopreneurs bag top prize at
Start-up@Asia
It has been a bumper
harvest of awards for FriarTuck, an NUS team of three budding
technopreneurs. Their winning formula - scheduling software enabling
sports organizers to optimize complex tournament scheduling. Their
software reduces drastically the amount of computing time needed to
generate sports schedules.
Having won first prize
at the Start-Up@Singapore competition in March 2001, the team went on to
win again at Start-up@Asia. Start-up@Asia is a techno-venture business
plan contest involving winning teams of national competitions held in
Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Australia, Korea, Taiwan and China.
The team of Assistant
Professor Martin Henz, a School of Computing lecturer, Mr Sevugan
Alagappan, a computer engineering student, and Mr Tobias Muller, shared
the first prize with the Taiwanese team WishTech. Each team walked away
with a bounty of S$15,000.
Mr Sevugan, Director of FriarTuck, said,
"Winning this competition gave us a lot of confidence that our idea
is viable and has the potential to be very successful. We were surprised
and excited when our team was announced as the joint winner of the
competition."
Start-up@Asia was organized by the NUS Centre for
Management of Innovation & Technopreneurship (recently renamed the
Centre for Entrepreneurship) in partnership with the Economic
Development Board (EDB) of Singapore and TIF Ventures Pte Ltd (TIFV).
Joint winners FriarTuck and Wishtech
with their $30,000 prize
NewsHub, National University of
Singapore
Copyright © 2001 Office of Corporate Communications
Date: 25 October, 2001
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