Startups
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The technologies shaping what’s next
Explore pioneering start-ups building across Logic, Pulse, Matter and Resilience. From AI, software and robotics to biotechnology, advanced materials and technologies that strengthen our world’s critical systems, discover the founders and breakthroughs pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
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Dr Chitralekha Gupta
Misinformation is often heard and forgotten before there is a chance to verify it. Fact Nudger explores a wearable AI fact-checker that listens to conversations, checks claims against web evidence and delivers a discreet nudge through a smartwatch when misinformation is detected, bringing fact-checking into the moment it matters.
OceanOneK
OceanOneK is an advanced underwater robotic system that brings human touch, vision and interactivity to depths of nearly 1,000 metres, using haptic feedback, stereoscopic vision and functional autonomy. It enables exploration and intervention in environments beyond human reach, supporting marine science, archaeology, and the inspection and repair of underwater infrastructure.
Finnox
Understanding human emotion remains a challenge for machines, and Finnox Technology is working to close that gap through multimodal AI. The Shenzhen-based company developed China’s first AI-based psychological quantification platform, using emotion-centric technology to enable more accurate and intuitive human–computer interaction.
Y-H20
Y-H2O is developing intelligent hydrofoil craft for both recreational and commercial water transport, combining advanced hardware with software services to make travel on water more efficient. Based in Shenzhen, the company is building an integrated ecosystem spanning R&D, manufacturing and sales, with ambitions to bring hydrofoil technology to markets worldwide.
Singfilm Solar
Singfilm Solar is making solar power more versatile with next-generation perovskite technology designed to work across diverse surfaces, sizes and light conditions. From self-powered electronics to satellites, its lightweight, high-efficiency solar cells overcome the rigidity and application limits of conventional silicon panels, opening up new possibilities for clean energy.
Polybee
Polybee is using autonomous micro-drones and computer vision to improve yields of high-value crops and strengthen food security. Its technology combines autonomous pollination with precise plant measurements, helping seed companies, vertical farms and greenhouses optimise crop production with greater efficiency and consistency.
Volterra Technology
Volterra is a smart energy management and optimization platform built on Deep Tech, combining AI, Big Data, IoT, and Digital Twin technologies to intelligently manage and optimize power flows across EV charging infrastructure.
Hivebotics Pte Ltd
Betterdata
Sharing data securely can be a slow and costly process for organisations operating under strict privacy regulations. Betterdata uses generative AI and privacy engineering to turn real datasets into synthetic data that retains the characteristics of the original without exposing information about real users, enabling teams to share and work with data faster while protecting privacy.
Morphometrix
Morphometrix turns ultrasound, the world's most accessible imaging technology, into a source of objective, standardized measurement, converting data clinicians already capture into quantifiable clinical insight. It solves ultrasound's long-standing weakness: subjective, operator-dependent interpretation that limits its diagnostic reliability.
Aleph Tech
Chemical manufacturing runs on complexity, and until now, solving it meant slow, manual troubleshooting. Aleph Technologies changes that with an AI Co-Pilot powered by Process Digital Twin technology, giving engineers and operators a faster path to smarter, higher-performing operations.
The Librarian
The Librarian puts an AI assistant for real estate agents in their pocket, turning simple voice or text commands into lead capture, listing matches, task management and automated follow-ups. By connecting seamlessly with the tools agents already use, it strips away time-consuming admin and keeps agents focused on building relationships and closing deals.
Lincore
As battery production and EV adoption accelerate, Lincore is tackling the growing waste and supply-chain challenge by recovering critical materials from spent batteries and manufacturing scrap. Its modular electro-metallurgical technology converts black mass into battery-grade materials locally, without direct carbon emissions or sodium sulphate waste.
Urbanflow
UrbanFlow is a collaborative, AI-driven platform transforming how planning, architecture, engineering and construction professionals approach sustainable design. By bringing cutting-edge research in urban and building science together with artificial intelligence, UrbanFlow equips the AEC industry with new ways to design more sustainably and collaboratively.
Ren Education
Ren is an AI-powered marking and feedback platform that transforms assessment for schools and junior colleges, helping teachers mark faster while giving students personalised, rubric-level feedback within days. By turning every mark into learning data, Ren reveals where students struggle and unlocks targeted intervention, personalised revision, and deeper insights across subjects and cohorts.
Lightsage
As AI agents increasingly influence how software is discovered and used, Lightsage helps companies make their products visible and accessible to them. Its platform measures how coding agents interact with APIs, CLIs and MCP integrations, helping businesses improve their agent experience and become the tools agents recommend and adopt.
Terraco Earth
Terraco Earth develops breakthrough MOF-based CO₂ capture technology for efficient and low-energy capture from industrial emissions.
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Scantist
As software becomes more complex and increasingly AI-driven, conventional security tools can struggle to uncover vulnerabilities that span multiple layers of an application. Singapore-based Scantist tackles this with PAIStrike, an agentic AI security engine that autonomously explores applications, APIs and infrastructure, simulates real-world attack paths, and identifies and prioritises risks for faster, more proactive security testing.
MetaSen
Metasen is making biological testing faster and more accessible with biosensors that can detect molecules inside individual cells in real time. By turning these measurements into large amounts of data, its technology could enable faster, lower-cost testing while creating new opportunities for AI-powered analysis and discovery.
Ecovolt
Ecovolt is a AI-Native building orchestration system (AIBOS) to help buildings improve energy and operational efficiency and enable sustainability compliance.
Selfomy
Selfomy is a learning management system for test prep centers that boosts students' scores and reduces operational costs with AI.
S’up
s’up is a personal posture coach that combines wearable sensors with intelligent analysis to provide real-time feedback and personalized guidance. It helps people build healthier sitting habits by tracking posture, delivering adaptive coaching, and turning everyday posture data into actionable insights.
NanoSense
Nanosense is working to make high-quality immunodiagnostic testing more accessible, wherever and whenever it is needed. By enabling earlier health insights, its technology aims to help shift healthcare from reacting to illness at a late stage towards earlier detection and more proactive care.
Groundup AI
Unplanned downtime can be costly for industrial companies, but machine failures often leave detectable signals before they happen. Groundup.ai uses proprietary sound sensors and acoustic AI to pick up these anomalies, giving companies an earlier view of potential failures and a lower-cost way to manage maintenance.
Ecoworks
Ecoworks builds refill infrastructure for household essentials: unattended, cashless stations inside Singapore's housing estates, with every dispense metered and written against the bottle. Technology that prevents the waste instead of processing it.
BioXcyte
BioXcyte is a Singapore-MIT spin-off developing a rapid point-of-care immune diagnostics platform that measures host immune response from a single drop of blood in under 10 minutes. Our first application targets sepsis risk prediction, with other potential applications in fields such as oncology, autoimmunity, neonatal care, veterinary diagnostics and biomanufacturing, within a USD 530 billion total addressable market.
BioWraps Solutions
BioWraps develops biodegradable materials and packaging from fruit peels and agricultural by-products to replace single-use plastics. We provide sustainable packaging solutions for F&B, retail, and export markets, driving the transition toward a circular economy.
Akro AI
Akro is building the AI workforce for regulated industries. We help enterprises replace manual, document-heavy operations with AI agents that execute complex workflows from end to end, while ensuring complete data sovereignty.
Agnes AI
Agnes AI brings search, content creation and task execution together in a single AI-powered workspace, turning ideas into answers, visuals, presentations and completed tasks. By combining multiple AI capabilities in one platform, it cuts down the friction between finding information, creating content and getting work done.
tHEMEat
Created by researchers from NUS, VEME® iron is the world's first plant-based heme iron that is 4 times better absorbed by our body than regular iron supplements. VEME® iron is gentle on your gut with reduced oxidative stress and irritation, hence reducing risks of side effects and gut lining damage in the long run.
Thiospark Energy
Thiospark is developing a new generation of solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries, designed to unlock greater energy density without compromising safety or performance. Its proprietary battery architecture combines a sulfur-carbon cathode, solid-state electrolyte and lithium-based anode to deliver improvements in cycle life, efficiency and overall battery performance.
StratifiCare
StratifiCare is a medical precision diagnostic company specialising in personalised, biomarker-driven solutions to optimise disease treatment. Its flagship product, StratifiREY, is a first-in-class complementary diagnostic blood test that uses peripheral blood immune profiling and artificial intelligence to predict patient response to yttrium-90 radioembolisation for liver cancer.
Sentinan
Sentinan develops AI-powered cardiac screening tools that combine digital heart and lung sounds with ECG signals to detect cardiovascular risks earlier. Our platform enables accessible, scalable screening and clinical decision support across community and healthcare settings.
FingerDance
FingerDance is developing AI technology that makes sign language more accessible, with a focus on bridging communication between Deaf and hearing communities. Their sign language large language models (SL-LLMs) are designed to better understand and support sign language, helping close communication and information gaps.
Factorem
Factorem makes custom manufacturing faster and more accessible by connecting businesses to a network of qualified manufacturers across Southeast Asia. Its AI-powered platform lets users source and order custom parts on demand, helping hardware teams cut through lengthy sourcing processes, reduce waste and bring products from prototype to reality faster.
Entropy Lab
Entropy Lab is making passive cooling more practical with PasteCool®, a nano-engineered cooling paint that reflects solar radiation and lowers surface temperatures without electricity. Developed from expertise in radiative cooling and materials science, the technology can help buildings, infrastructure and transport systems reduce heat and energy consumption while adapting to a warmer climate.
Clear Robotics
Clear Robotics is tackling marine plastic pollution with Clearbot, a solar-powered autonomous workboat that collects waste from waterways while capturing pollution data in real time. By automating cleanup, the technology also reduces the safety risks of manual waste collection and enables more efficient monitoring of waterway health.
CRecTech
CRecTech is a Singapore-based deep-technology startup developing advanced catalytic technologies to utilise CO₂ and convert waste biogas and biomass into affordable green bio-methanol. Its proprietary CRecREF™ platform combines high-performance catalysts, process intensification and modular plant design to support low-carbon fuel and chemical production for the maritime, aviation and energy sectors.
AutoCodeRover (VeriGrey)
AutoCodeRover automates software engineering work through autonomous agents, taking an issue from diagnosis to a validated code change. Spun out of NUS, it was acquired by Sonar in 2025 to anchor the company's agentic offerings.
Ailytics
Ailytics empowers heavy industries to enhance safety, productivity, and operational efficiency by transforming any existing camera infrastructure into an intelligent AI-driven system. Our cutting-edge platform delivers real-time, actionable insights, enabling smarter and faster decision making.