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At the Plug and Play APAC Fintech Summit 2019, Perx had the opportunity to showcase our award-winning B2B enterprise SaaS product to an audience of 1000+ corporates, top investors, and various government-associated stakeholders. Our CEO, Anna Gong, took the stage and spoke about large enterprises that can tackle disruption at the hands of new-age upstarts by giving consideration to technology-enabled revenue model innovation. You can view her presentation here.

This honour and the validation that comes with it has only reinforced our belief in the product we’ve built and the mission it is committed to – helping you embrace disruption in the most effective way possible. Here at Perx, we’re barely at the halfway point and there’s plenty more that’s coming. If anything, our pace now stands quickened thanks to this second-time-around honour.

Onward and upward.

In some major news, Perx was recognized as one of the 30 best Deep Tech startups in the world on the 20 Nov 2019, at the 3rd edition of Slingshot – one of the leading international startup spotlight events powered by Singapore-base Startup SG Network and Enterprise Singapore.

Shortlisted by a panel made up of the top VCs, long-standing entrepreneurs and heads of leading corporates of the world, Perx was lauded for its innovative use of AI for driving tightly curated and meaningful customer engagements that translate into exponential revenue growth, and enhanced customer loyalty for their clients. Amrith Ganesh, Marketing Director of Perx, accepted the honour following a 2-minute pitch to the panel where he spoke about the many ways in which Perx is building tech-enabled capabilities that solve one of the most pressing needs of customer-facing companies today – to be able to engage, retain and stay relevant to their many audiences through personalized, timely, and well-tailored digital interventions.

“Over these last couple of years and through deployments across different consumer-facing industries we’ve learned that businesses that use intelligent systems are best placed to drive continuous and consistent engagement programs with their most valued customers. The magic truly is in combining data and intentions over the right technology!” noted Amrith G, Perx’s Head of Marketing, at the event.

Slingshot 2019 was one of the largest events of its kind, attracting more than 2400 applications from startups across 120 countries of the world including China, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Portugal, Thailand, the US, and the United Kingdom. All of the Top 100 Global Startups made it to the three-day semi-finals and grand finals, and also went through Gear Up workshops in addition to pitch coaching, mentorship, and legal clinics.