FACT SHEET. About SGInnovate

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1 FACT SHEET About SGInnovate SGInnovate is a private organisation wholly owned by the Singapore government, under the purview of the National Research Foundation with a focus on enabling the entrepreneurial potential of ambitious men and women based in Singapore who believe they can build a start-up. SGInnovate, as a part of the robust startup ecosystem in Singapore, is working with technical founders to imagine, start and scale globally-relevant early-stage companies using science and deep-technology research originated in Singapore. Areas of activity include digital health, financial services, smart energy, digital manufacturing, transportation, artificial intelligence and robotics. Current partners include NVIDIA, McLaren Applied Technologies, Entrepreneur First, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Ethereum, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore University of Technology and Design and the National University of Singapore.

2 SGInnovate Board of Directors Chairman Ms Yong Ying-I Permanent Secretary National Research and Development, Prime Minister s Office Members Dr Beh Swan Gin Chairman, Economic Development Board Mr Gabriel Lim 2nd Permanent Secretary (Ministry of Communications and Information) Chief Executive (Info-comm Media Development Authority of Singapore) Mr Poon Hong Yuen Chief Executive, SPRING Singapore Dr Robert JT Morris Vice President, Global Labs, IBM Research Mr Jean-Luc Butel Global Healthcare Advisor President, K8 Global Senior Advisor McKinsey Mr Foo Jixun Managing Partner, GGV Capital Mr Jeremy Kranz SVP & Head, Global Venture Capital and Technology Growth, GIC

3 Partners of SGInnovate (In alphabetical order) EF (Entrepreneur First) Entrepreneur First (EF) was founded by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck to help top technical talent build world-class tech startups in London. It is the only pre-seed investment programme in the world to accept candidates pre-team, pre-idea with individuals selected purely on the basis of their technical ability or domain expertise. As well as pre-seed funding, the full-time, six month programme provides individuals with mentoring and advice from the EF team and some of the world s top entrepreneurs, as well as office space and legal and administrative support, so that each cohort has the best possible environment to meet potential co-founders and launch their startups. The programme has so far supported over 200 entrepreneurs build over 70 companies who have been funded by some of the world s leading venture investors, including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures; Notion Capital, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator. IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law. We develop the right legal regime and business ecosystem to support an innovation-driven economy, build IP skills and expertise and foster innovation and creativity for Singapore s future growth. We deliver on our commitments through our core values of integrity, professionalism, team work and by investing in our greatest asset our people. More information on IPOS can be found at McLaren Applied Technologies We are on a relentless mission to improve people s lives by combining our fresh thinking and technology to solve crucial challenges. Decades of competition in the world s most technologically advanced sport has given us the ability to see and

4 maximise the potential of an increasingly connected world. And working with like-minded visionaries, we go beyond the limits of what was considered possible to turn ideas into reality by developing intelligent products and processes. NUS (National University of Singapore) Founded in 1905, NUS is a leading global university centred in Asia. The University is the oldest institute of higher learning (IHL) in Singapore, as well as the largest university in the country in terms of student enrolment and curriculum offered. NUS is a research-intensive, comprehensive university with an entrepreneurial dimension. NUS offers a distinctively Asian and global experience that is grounded in maximising the potential of students and their future-readiness, and broad-based research excellence that enables beneficial translation. Renowned for pioneering new models of education, the University is also highly regarded for the hallmark rigour and breadth of its academic programmes, innovative entrepreneurship education, and experiential learning. NTU (National Technological University of Singapore) A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and its Interdisciplinary Graduate School. It has a new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, set up jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Energy Research NTU (ERI@N) and the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight (ACI). Ranked 13th in the world, NTU has also been ranked the

5 world s top young university for the last two years running. The University s main campus has been named one of the Top 15 Most Beautiful in the World. NTU also has a campus in Novena, Singapore s medical district. NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is the AI computing company. Its invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI -- the next era of computing -- with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. SSP (Silicon Solution Partners) SSP aims to service and accelerate innovative startups by endorsing complete Eco Infrastructure and Mentorship supports, so that each startup will need minimum upfront CAPEX investment, sustaining with minimum OPEX, to attain effective and productive manpower resource deployment to meet its business objectives and to maximize ROI. SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) is a major research enterprise established by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in partnership with the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) since It is the first entity in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) developed by NRF. SMART serves as an intellectual hub for research interactions between MIT and Singapore. Cutting-edge research projects in areas of interest to both Singapore and MIT are undertaken at SMART. SMART comprises an Innovation Centre and five Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs): BioSystems and Micromechanics (BioSyM), Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM), Infectious Diseases (ID), Future Urban Mobility (FM) and Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES).

6 Singapore Institute of Technology Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is Singapore s new autonomous university of applied learning. It aims to be a leader in innovative university education by integrating learning, industry and community as part of its unique pedagogy. Partnering world-class universities, SIT offers applied degree programmes targeted at growth sectors of the economy. SIT also aims to cultivate in its students four distinctive traits, or the SIT-DNA, which will prepare them to be thinking tinkerers, who are able to learn, unlearn and relearn, be catalysts for transformation and finally, become grounded in the community. To find out more about SIT, visit singaporetech.edu.sg SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) SUTD is Singapore s fourth public university, and one of the first universities in the world to incorporate the art and science of design and technology into a multi-disciplinary curriculum. Established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), SUTD seeks to nurture technically-grounded leaders and innovators in engineering product development, engineering systems and design, information systems technology and design, and architecture and sustainable design, to serve societal needs. Also in collaboration with Zhejiang University (ZJU) and Singapore Management University (SMU), SUTD, a research-intensive university, is distinguished by its unique East and West academic programme which incorporates elements of technology, entrepreneurship, management and design thinking. Graduate opportunities include an MIT- SUTD Dual Masters' Degree Programme and an SUTD PhD Programme. For more information on SGInnovate, please visit or join our community at ENDS