Startups
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See how our panelists are defining innovation
Panelists feature scientists who turned patents into industry-defining platforms, investors backing the frontier tech of tomorrow, and founders transforming R&D into global ventures.
From the co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys; two companies worth over $160B, to the VC behind 20+ unicorns including Alibaba and Grab, and the Stanford professor redefining human-robot interaction, our panelists shape the course of our modern world.
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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.
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.
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.