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This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast It's been an exciting year at One North Stories. Launched April 2023, we've had 70+ voices across 38 episodes telling deep tech stories. We are regrouping for season 2. Enjoy this conversation between Reuben and Pei Ling as our season 1 wrap and brief preamble for season 2. Thank you for listeni…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Yang Liu and TY Shao join to share about MetaTrustLabs. The Singapore based start-up is building security tools and code auditing services for Web3, protecting information, data and most importantly money as the web decentralizes across the blockchain. Yang Liu represented the team through the S…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Gayathri Natarajan joins to share about KrossLinker. The Singapore based start-up that is advancing insulation through materials innovation. Specifically, they have developed a production platform for aerogel manufacturing which enables this amazing material to be produced more cost effective. T…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Moores Law may be ending, but Richard Feynman told us: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Let me subtly add: there’s plenty of physics there too, both for silicon and beyond. Where is the future of compute going? Silicon? Yes, that's the near future. Beyond Silicon? Beyond 2 states per bit? W…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Jae Kim joins to share about Bering Lab. The Korean based start-up is a language technology company with the starting niche of precision translation for the legal profession. Their AI powered translations enable high precision translation between English and Korean, Chinese, Japanese, French, Ge…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Abhishek Agrawal joins to share about Kinexcs. They are a digital therapy and wearables company looking to help healthcare providers and individuals measure, track and improve their musculoskeletal health. Abhishek represented the team through the Slingshot 2023 competition at SWITCH, placing th…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast William (Billy) Hanes, Wyle Solomon and Adam Williamson join to share about Somnial. They have developed and are testing a bioelectronic, wearable device as an alternative to the CPAP machine. Wyle represented the team through the Slingshot 2023 competition at SWITCH, garnering judges support as…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Rick Hodgeson joins to share about EMROD. Rick joined EMROD in 2023 as Strategy and Commercial Manager and represented the team through the Slingshot 2023 competition at SWITCH. Founded in 2019, in New Zealand, EMROD is working on long range power transmission with virtual wires. Specifically, t…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Choon joins to share about ImmunoScape, a Singapore biotech start-up building a TCR discovery platform and therapeutics pipeline with a focus on TCRs to fight solid tumors. Choon started his career in the Singapore Armed Forces. He pursued his MBA at the University of Michigan after which he joi…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Jax Lee joins to share about Nanolumi. Nanolumi is an advanced materials start-up delivering innovative luminescence solutions and products with a current emphasis on product authentication and supply chain security (via Reyal) and bio sensing/ imaging (via Luminicell). Jax spent the first part …

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit happened on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. This episode contains interviews with three finalists: Kepler Corp (4:43), Zero Error Systems (14:11) and Snap Robotics (20:28). Yuta from Kepler Corp shares about their vision and technology…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit happened on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. This episode contains interviews with three finalists: Bioscan Research (6:24), OsseoLabs (14:40) and 6J BioTechnology (20:37) plus another company we met, Pending AI (31:10). Shilpa from Bio…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Valuable Software Services or a Generational Company? That was the decision the founding team at Cosmos Innovation needed to answer. Four years since departing the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), part of A*STAR, Vijay, Joel and team are still on track for building a generational company. …

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit happened on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. One North Stories was there. This episode contains interviews with three finalists: Endua (5:50), Green COP (15:23) and TriNano (20:45), plus another company in the environmental space we met…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit happened on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. This episode contains interviews with three finalists: EF Polymer (6:10), Repla (16:48) and Galderia (26:29). Listen to Puran from EF Polymer share about their solutions for water conservatio…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Does Chris have one of the best jobs in the world? Listen and find out. Chris is the Director of Portfolio and Prize at Earthshot Prize. The Earthshot Prize is an independent foundation that’s spun out of the Royal Foundation in the UK. They are building awareness, excitement with the goal to ac…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Singapore's biggest TECH! and INNOVATION! week has happened! What an international event! Slingshot 2023 start-up pitching competition featured front and center. Companies from across Asia, Oceania, Europe and the Americas. The Second runner up is: Kinexcs The First runner up is: Bering Lab The …

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Singapore's biggest TECH! and INNOVATION! week is happening 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2023. Cindy from SWITCH joins to share a bit about SWITCH and how visitors can orient themselves to get the most out of the three day extravaganza! Afterwards, we have Alvin from IPI to share about the partner event, Tech…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Mark Wong joins to share about Occutrack. Occutrack is a medical start-up developing an eye movement tracking system for remote monitoring of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). Building on intellectual property for vision assessment developed at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Fengru Lin joins to share about TurtleTree. TurtleTree is a 4 year old biotech company producing milk and milk ingredients through precision fermentation. They program microbes to produce high-value proteins, just like an animal would, but without going through the animal. In 2023, they are rele…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit happened on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. This is our first recap episode. We start with some quick recap thoughts and then sharing our interviews with the grand finalist of the Hello Tomorrow APAC Challenge, Psylo (8:10) and two run…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast This bonus episode presents audio from an April 2023 Fireside Chat with Noubar Afeyan, Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, Co-Founder and Chairman of Moderna. The themes of parallel entrepreneurship and preparing for failure are found throughout. Enjoy! The dialogue is moderated by Prof Ng H…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Kathy He joins to share about Lerna Biopharma (formerly known as Cargene Therapeautics). Lerna is a 3 year old biotech founded out of the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), A*STAR. They are leveraging Small molecule RNA (SiRNA) technology to treat liver disease through regeneration, especially…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Luuk Eliens joins to share a slightly different take on founding Deep Tech companies. He is co-founder and Managing Partner of Singapore Deep Tech Alliance. In operation for 2 years, they target to systematically launch 10 deep tech companies a year. This is done through an alliance model with C…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Hello Tomorrow Asia Pacific Summit is happening on 27th September 2023 at the National Gallery in Singapore. Tune in for a brief preview of the Summit itself, the investor day happening on 26th September 2023 plus interview with two participating tech companies: Insilico Medicine and Spring Bio.…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Jake Berber and Ding Jie Tan join us to share the founding story of Prefer. Prefer is a food tech start-up working to bring a new twist on a classic. Coffee, without the coffee bean. They are upcycling day old bread, okara and brewers spent grain and through proprietary fermentation and then roa…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Shigeki Sugii and Mandy Hon join us to share the founding story of ImpacFat. ImpacFat is a food tech company, looking to revolutionize the core-source of fish fat. Founded out of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR in Singapore, they cultivate cell-based fish fat in a cont…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Rishita Changede joins us to share the founding story of TeOra. Teora is a synthetic biology startup. They are designing nature's best factory 'the cell' to manufacture naturals that replace petroleum based synthetic products. They are using bioinformatics and material science to create vaccines…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Yeow Kee joins us to share the founding story of Sound Eye. Sound Eye is a spin-out company from the Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R). They provide sound recognition solutions capable of classifying sounds. Deployment includes empowering elderly with fall risks to live more autonomously, ass…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Albert Dashi joins us to share the founding story of Sequential Bio. Sequential Bio is a spin-out company from the Genomic Institute of Singapore (GIS). They apply deep molecular analysis and DNA sequencing to understand the different parts of an individual’s microbiome. Sequential Bio quantifie…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast This Bonus Episode if from a June 2023 fireside chat hosted at A*START CENTRAL. Gustavo Liu moderates a conversation with Clarence Tan from Origgin Ventures and Zong Xi Sia from Cocoon Capital. The focus is on Deep-Tech Investing from the VC's perspective. Learn more about our guests at: https:/…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Vincent Wei of Archisen joins us today to share about their founding journey. Archisen is an indoor farming company, originating from a venture co-creation with Origin Ventures, leveraging A*STAR’s BioInformatics Institute (BII) technology to assist with optimizing crop yields for precision indo…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast William Temple of Ampotech joins us today to share about their founding journey. William came to Singapore on a tourist visa, looking for jobs in the classifieds. He started his career designing air conditioning and mechanical ventilation systems for buildings before becoming a research engineer…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Levana (Levi) Sani, Astrid Irwanto, Alexander (Sandro) Lezhava and Jianjun (JJ) Liu of NalaGenetics joins us today to share about their founding journey. NalaGenetics is a spin-out company from the Genomic Institute of Singapore (GIS). NalaGenetics is enabling personalized medicine through genet…

This is One North Stories, an A*START CENTRAL Podcast Gabriel Yee of Myrmidon Labs (MyrLabs) joins us today to share about their founding journey. Gabriel started his career as a research engineer, working on Complexity Theory, Internet of Things, Digital Twins and then Indoor Robotics. The team, yearning for more, decided to spin out a company to …

This is One North Stories, an A*StartCentral Podcast Massimo Alberti of REVIVO BioSystems joins us today to share about their founding journey. Massimo came to Singapore as an early career researcher, saw the potential in the project he was working on and decided to spin out a company instead of staying in the research lab. REVIVO, a spin out from …

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This is One North Stories, an A*StartCentral Podcast We are pleased to be launching a new podcast focused on deep-tech in Singapore. Our purpose is to provide hyperlocal, ground based storytelling at the intersection of science, technology and business here in Singapore, with a global perspective. This launch series is focused on technology start-u…