Singaporean doctor Lynne Lim at the 2024 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. American model Karlie Kloss was a guest presenter and speaker for the night.
Among them was Singaporean fellow Lynne Lim, founder of medtech start-up NousQ, who clinched first place in the Science & Technology Pioneer Award category. Introduced in 2021, the award recognises disruptive solutions built around protected or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances. “This amplifies NousQ’s quest to always focus on the patient’s voice. By simplifying surgery, we improve their affordability, access and safety.”
Open internationally, the Science & Technology Pioneer Award is currently the most competitive category because of the volume and quality of applications, with a total of 234 applicants for the 2024 edition, said CWI’s global programme director Wingee Sin.In its 17th edition, CWI was set up in 2006 to provide women impact entrepreneurs with financial, social and human capital to grow their businesses.
To host 2024’s awards, Cartier chose Shenzhen for its prominence as an entrepreneur hub and its logistical infrastructure. The futuristic city, where roads teem with electric vehicles and pedestrians share overhead bridges with motorists, has earned a reputation in recent years as China’s Silicon Valley.“The world would not progress if China was not also reaching the UNSD goals. China is critical for all of us. Shenzhen as an entrepreneur hub is critical in that equation,” she said.
Ms Park Ji-won from South Korea clinched the top prize in the East Asia category for her sexual wellness brand SAIB, which empowers women to take charge of their sexual and reproductive health with toxin-free, female-friendly contraceptives and intimate hygiene products in discreet packaging. “The number one feedback that women entrepreneurs have is that they’re over-mentored but under-invested. We knew that just human capital support without financial support would not be useful – because who can scale a business with just mentoring?”
“We hope that via our programme, they receive the type of support that will help them scale and create the impact they want to see, and from there attract external capital or be in a state of profitability where they don’t need it.”
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