NUS Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Great network opportunity with our successful alumnus, Janson Seah, CEO of StaffAny. Successfully graduated from Furnace one year ago, Janson is back to I&E this Monday to share with us his testimony of startup journey and to give his advice on doubts we have on starting a business.
Check out this link to find out the "secrets" behind how StaffAny has grown so much from a student startup to $1 million business within two years.
https://nussocentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2019/11/staffany.html

StaffAny - Secrets To Unlock $1 Million NUS technology start-up incubator with financial grant, entrepreneurship mentorship and extensive network.

Jovin Liew, the founder of The Zone, a startup under Furnace program that develops a guided journaling app with machine learning power. The sentiment analysis embedded in the app will track users' moods and emotions and provide proper writing prompts for users to journal better. Let's explore more about how Jovin comes up with this interesting idea and make it to be a real business!

Read the full interview at https://nussocentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-zone.html

The Zone - Now is the Best Time to Start NUS technology start-up incubator with financial grant, entrepreneurship mentorship and extensive network.

This week we invited Jiho, founder of Mobbin for a short interview. Mobbin is a comprehensive library of the latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design. Mobbin is currently used by over 70,000 designers and product people around the world, including those from design-mature companies such as Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter & Uber.

In Year three of university, Jiho started Mobbin as a side project when he realised that the process of finding and browsing through app designs was manual and repetitive due to absence of a comprehensive library in mobile designs. When Mobbin was first launched in the app store in 2018, it was featured in "New Apps that We Love” section and it has been growing steadily since then.

See more about Jiho and his startup journey with Mobbin at:
https://nussocentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2019/10/mobbin-library-of-latest-mobile-design.html

Mobbin - Library of the Latest Mobile Design Patterns NUS technology start-up incubator with financial grant, entrepreneurship mentorship and extensive network.

💥Are you interested in tech entrepreneurship?
👀Do you wonder how to raise one million investment for a start-up?
🤝Do you need any support to implement your good ideas?

There will be a sharing session to answer all of these doubts, given by Janson Seah, the CEO of StaffAny who managed to raise S$1 million funds earlier this year. Join this session to learn from his start-up story and find out how you can start your own start-up journey.

Time: 5:00pm – 6.30pm, 4th November, 2019
Venue: #03-40, iCube

Sign up NOW as the slots are limited on the first-come-first-serve basis:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVTXxSCbwl8sawFf2IFjvMrAzTzkOnjen3Iwqi32fWvx6JvA/viewform

More details on event and I&E program:
https://nussocentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2019/10/secrets-to-unlock-1-million-start-up.html

Secrets To Unlock $1 Million - Start-up Sharing Session by Janson, from StaffAny NUS technology start-up incubator with financial grant, entrepreneurship mentorship and extensive network.

"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."--Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter

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South Korean blockchain company Iconloop has raised US$8.3 million in a series A funding round led by Korea Technology Finance Corporation, its first venture capital investment since its formation in 2016.

ICONLOOP, Inc. is a tech company, based in Seoul, South Korea, specialized in the implementation and design of blockchain technology. ICONLOOP targets both scalability and security to maximize the utility of blockchain technology. Based on a proprietary blockchain engine, loopchain, ICONLOOP leads diverse innovations in financial transactions and digital currency.

Iconloop will use the new funds for the launch of its blockchain-based digital identity authentication service, my-ID, in the first half of 2020. It also looks to expand my-ID Alliance, which currently has 27 organizations and companies from various industries, to other sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, sharing economy, and health care.

https://www.techinasia.com/iconloop-raises-8m
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South Korean blockchain startup Iconloop raises $8.3m in series A funding Iconloop will use part of the new funds to launch its digital identity authentication service next year.

bantu, inspired by the Malay word 'help', is a user-friendly and intelligent community management & engagement platform for non-profit organisations, allowing them to champion their social causes using more efficient and meaningful processes.This week we invited Joshua, Co-Founder of bantu (https://bantu.life/) for a short interview.

The idea of bantu was born when Joshua and his Co-founders realised there was a gap between social enterprise and technology. After speaking with over 100 non-profit organisations, they saw the possibility of turning the project into an actual business and then decided to incubate bantu at Furnace under SoC I&E. Over the course of 1 year 9 months, bantu has grown so much from a student startup and expanded its customer lists from non-profit organizations to include businesses that want to create positive social impacts.

See more about Joshua and his startup journey with bantu at
https://nussocentrepreneurship.blogspot.com/2019/10/bantu-using-technology-to-create-great_18.html

bantu - Using Technology to Create Great Social Impacts NUS technology start-up incubator with financial grant, entrepreneurship mentorship and extensive network.

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney, Founder of Disney

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Fully autonomous robots that are able to inspect damaged wind farms have been developed by Scots scientists.

Unlike most drones, they don't require a human operator and could end the need for technicians to abseil down turbines to carry out repairs. It would mean an end to the risky business of humans donning hard hats and harnesses to dangle from a high turbine column over a heaving sea.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50030184
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Robotic inspectors developed to fix wind farms Scientists develop fully autonomous robots that could end the need for workers to scale dangerously-tall wind turbines.

"If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life." -Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb

Doing business is not just about making profits, but more importantly creating values by solving practical problems we do encounter in life.

Visit our website to learn more about NUS Innovation & Entrepreneurship program:
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With Pixel 4, Google's experimental tech bets finally enter the spotlight. On Tuesday, Google will formally introduce the Pixel 4 and its next generation of consumer devices at a splashy event in New York City.

The announcement wasn't surprising simply because tech giants usually guard marquee device features like state secrets. It was also notable because the new capability marks a big step for Google: One of its in-house experimental technologies is finally being released to a massive consumer market. And it's coming out on one of Google's most important devices -- a phone, a gadget that's as ubiquitous as they come.

https://www.cnet.com/news/with-pixel-4-googles-experimental-tech-bets-finally-enter-the-spotlight
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With Pixel 4, Google's experimental tech bets finally enter the spotlight The search giant will soon unveil a flagship smartphone with radar technology, marking a significant milestone for the company.