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Heng Soon brings with him 30 years of in-depth knowledge and experience in technology startups investments. As the Chief Operating Officer at SGInnovate, he is responsible for operationalising strategies and directions set by the Board, promoting strong corporate governance and ensuring the integrity and efficiency of business operations. He oversees the Corporate Services division of SGInnovate, which comprises Human Resource, Finance, Procurement, IT, Admin and Facilities.

Prior to his current role, Heng Soon was active in sales and business development, having had leadership roles in the precision manufacturing and automation equipment sector.

Heng Soon started his career at Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) where he led efforts in identifying promising Singapore companies for targeted development. While at EDB Investments, Heng Soon was involved in direct investments into high-growth, US-based technology startups.

He graduated as a Diplom-Ingenieur from Hamburg, Germany in 1985.

Hsien-Hui brings with him in-depth knowledge and experience in the Business Development and Venture Capital spaces across Australia, Europe, Singapore and the US.

As the Executive Director, Investments, Hsien-Hui leads SGInnovate's investments efforts, from working with research scientists to create and launch venture-fundable solutions based on their Deep Tech research core, to identifying high-potential, Deep Tech startups working on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Advanced Manufacturing, AgriFoodTech, MedTech and Quantum Computing.

Prior to joining SGInnovate, he was the Managing Partner, Asia Pacific for Wassax Ventures. He had also served as the CEO of the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) and Vice President at Staples. In the early 2000s, he co-founded a data mining company, which was sold to a global bank two years later.

Hsien-Hui graduated in 1998 from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Engineering.

As Executive Director, People, Juliana tackles the same challenges surrounding tech talent that many companies and industries face but approaches them differently. She leads SGInnovate’s work in strengthening individuals’ capabilities in the Deep Tech space, building a strong mentors & multipliers network, as well as in expanding the talent marketplace, where ambitious and capable people and high-potential startups can seek each other out.

Working with like-minded partners such as large corporates and institutes of higher learning, Juliana and her team have executed various learning and development programmes that have benefitted more than 400 Deep Tech talent in AI and Blockchain. In building the Deep Tech talent network, she is focused on three main areas – targetting new pipelines, increasing touchpoints and attracting talent to startups.

Under her leadership, the team has also put together the first-ever Deep Tech focused apprenticeship initiative – the Summation Programme. A curated pool of students will partner experienced software and engineering professionals to embark on innovative projects focusing on areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and blockchain.

She has also successfully launched the by-invite-only Sundown Drinks series, where industry experts, entrepreneurs and technical practitioners gather to discuss and debate on important and trending topics such as “Looking Beyond ICOs”; “Future of Automation”; and “Pushing the Boundaries of Biomedical Tech”.

Prior to joining SGInnovate, Juliana had been in various roles across the Human Resource function in organisations such as SP Group, NTUC First Campus (NFC), the National Heritage Board, Central Provident Fund Board and the Ministry of Education. She has led teams in talent attraction, benefits and rewards, learning and development and business partnering.

Juliana has a Bachelor of Economics (1st Class Hons) from Murdoch University and a Master in Strategic Human Resource Management from the University of New South Wales.

REVIVO

Integrated Microfluidics Systems for Organ-on-a-chip Testing

Founded2019

LocationSingapore

StageSeed

Websitehttps://www.revivobio.com/

REVIVO BioSystems provides integrated microfluidic systems and proprietary organ models to perform organ-on-a-chip testing. REVIVO aims at revolutionising the in vitro safety and efficacy testing market by providing new tools and methods for ethical innovation. Their REVEx™ chip and REVIn™ Plate, coupled with their ReleGO™ platform, can generate 4D human skin models with blood flow simulation conditions to perform safety and efficacy testing of compounds in the chemical, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. This technology delivers more realistic and efficient test conditions, providing a better understanding of compound safety and efficacy in actual human application conditions in an animal cruelty-free manner.

Massimo Alberti, CEO & Co-founder Massimo is the founder of REVIVO BioSystems and co-inventor of its organ-on-chip technology. He obtained his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and his PhD in Micro and Nanotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark. Massimo worked as a Scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) where he developed a novel microfluidic platform for integrated skin culture and testing and then founded REVIVO BioSystems. He brings a combined experience in lab-on-a-chip systems for biological applications and organ-on-a-chip technologies and industry experience as a business developer.

Bert Grobben, Chief Business Officer & Co-founder Bert is an FMCG seasoned executive with a 15-year MNC track record, a serial venture builder and an experienced entrepreneur. He is an expert in consumer/customer insight, product and pipeline development, innovation strategy, and portfolio expansion. He holds a Master of Science and PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and has a passion for open innovation. Bert joined REVIVO BioSystems in 2018 through an A*STAR mentoring program and has since become its co-founder, focusing on the company's business aspects.

Sriram Gopu, Chief Scientific Advisor & Co-founder Chief Scientific Advisor & Co-founder

StakeWith.Us

Secured staking made easy

Founded2018

LocationSingapore

StageSeed

Websitewww.stakewith.us/

StakeWith.Us provides secure solutions for crypto asset investors to earn yields via staking and decentralised finance. The company has more than $150M USD of assets secured under their infrastructure. Unagii is the non-custodial, automated yield platform built by StakeWith.Us for crypto investors with self-managed yielding needs.

Mervyn Chng, CEO With a deep background in Trading and Finance, Mervyn was an active equities and futures trader for more than ten years before heavily investing in cryptocurrencies and venturing into decentralised finance. He was also the Co-founder of an investment advisory firm for blockchain projects. Before entering the crypto and blockchain industry, Mervyn was the General Manager of a local Oil & Gas company growing its trading operations to over $50M USD in turnover. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hon) in Business from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Michael Ng, COO Michael was previously the Co-founder of an investment advisory firm for blockchain projects and bootstrapped a community management company during the cryptocurrency boom in 2017. He is deeply invested in the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem and is a huge advocator for decentralised finance. Michael was previously an Analyst at one of the largest Nordic banks in Europe, specialising in institutional debt markets, loan syndication, and FX products. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hon) in Maritime Studies with a second major in Business from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Mighty Jaxx

Digital authentication and provenance tracking platform for collectibles

Founded2015

LocationSingapore

StagePre-Series A

Websitemightyjaxx.rocks/

Mighty Jaxx is a homegrown Singapore company that creates and produces urban-culture themed toys, collectibles and merchandise. To solve the problem of not being able to track secondary sales and the counterfeit market of collectibles, Mighty Jaxx is developing a platform, MightyVerse. It provides digital authentication and provenance tracking for high-value collectibles, with potential expansion to include new product lines such as games, luxury goods and fashion.

Jackson Aw, Founder Serial entrepreneur and sole-founder that grew Mighty Jaxx into a multi-million dollar global brand.

Memento

Empowering institutions with blockchain digital asset solutions.

Founded2017

LocationSingapore

StageSeed

Websitemementoblockchain.com

Memento is building the future of digital asset management with blockchain. Its ecosystem includes Memento DFM for fund tokenization and Memento ZKChain, a public but permissioned zk-based chain for institutional DeFi and digital-native funds.

Nicola Lanteri, CEO A banking professional with extensive experience in the financial industry across Europe, Australia and Singapore. He has consulted various companies, advised on trading system enhancements and led the implementation of technology projects. Nicola has obtained an MBA from Melbourne Business School and he is passionate about start ups and disruptive new technologies. His expertise covers economics, finance as well as process efficiency and innovation.

Fabrizio Audisio, CTO Passionate about technology, Fabrizio is a strategic IT leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience delivering High-End Technology Systems for the Financial, Telecommunications and IT Professional Services sectors. His most significant career achievements stem from being CTO of the RESET fintech start-up, which today is part of the CME Group and the world's leader in portfolio basis risk mitigation services. Fabrizio is very comfortable working under pressure on innovative projects with tough deadlines and truly excels in solving complex IT issues.

Mario Aquino, Co-founder & President Mario has spent over 20 years as an advisor, entrepreneur, executive and investor in the B2B technology space. He is currently the Managing Partner of FutureLabs Ventures, a distinctive VC & Venture builder and was formerly the Co-founder of McKinsey Solution and Managing Partner of McKinsey Ventures in APAC. Over his career, Mario has also worked for leading organisation such as Lehman Brothers, McKinsey & Company and Moody’s Analytics.

Federico Cristina, CFA, Co-founder & Director Federico is an investment professional with over 10 years of experience in securities trading, portfolio management and asset management. During the past years, Federico has successfully launched and developed several investment funds which have been sold to private and institutional investors. Federico is a CFA® Charterholder.

Filippo Fanin, CFA, Co-founder & CFO A gifted and organised leader which has worked with small & medium enterprises through his career, thriving in the challenge to shape a small company’s culture, structure and organise its capabilities and drive its expansion. For the past 4 years, Filippo has been the CEO of Brotzeit. Previously he held a position as CFO, he is an expert in financial management, investing and is a CFA® Charterholder.

Nicola Dalmazzo, Co-founder & CMO A well positioned organised, driven and relentless executor. He has over 10 years of experience in Marketing with L’Oreal and Google, where he now holds a position as Head of Sales for Google Maps. His background in consumer brands and tech are the perfect match for the needs of DEXTF to succeed in the ICO market and in recruiting investors.

Secondmind

AI platform for general decision making

Founded2016

LocationUK

StageSeries B

Websitesecondmind.ai/

Secondmind exists to help automotive engineers design better cars faster, and achieve greater sustainability through machine learning. From reducing design simulation time and calibration overhead, to continuously improving energy efficiency and performance throughout the vehicle lifecycle, Secondmind cloud-native optimisation solutions give engineers the tools and confidence to re-imagine the design, development and experience of driving, and accelerate the transition to carbon-neutral mobility.

Secondmind is also the recent winner of the Autotech AI Breakthrough of the Year Award 2023.

Gary Brotman, CEO Gary is a passionate technology maven and leads our team as Chief Executive Officer and Director. He brings 20+ years of leadership experience building, commercialising, and evangelising of product and service lines for leading Fortune 500 companies and startups with machine learning, mobile, and technology at their core.

Peter Bullivant, Chief Financial & Operating Officer Peter is a Chartered Accountant who has specialised for more than 20 years in leading the finance operations in technology companies including SaaS for Fintech, EHS and for connected cars. He has helped companies go through transformational development as they scale up to the next level and enter new geographical markets both organically or through acquisitions.

Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen, Chief Science Officer Carl is a Professor of machine learning at Cambridge University. He believes that probability theory is the foundation of information, modelling, inference, learning and rational decision-making.

AI.Reverie

Synthetic data generation and simulation platform

Founded2016

LocationUSA

StagePre-Series A

Website

AI.Reverie is a New York-headquartered, early-stage company that provides Computer Vision algorithms and synthetically generated data at scale for the security and surveillance industry, with future applications in retail and mobility.

Dr Daeil Kim, CEO & Co-founder He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University. Prior to that, he was the former Lead Data Scientist at The New York Times.

Paul Walborsky, COO & Co-founder Formerly the President and CEO of Gigaom, that was acquired by Knowingly Corp and Founder of Worldstreet, that was acquired by Thomson Reuters.

Funding Societies

Digital financing platform for SMEs

Founded2015

LocationSingapore

StageSeries C

Websitefundingsocieties.com/

Funding Societies is a leading and pioneer digital financing platform for small and medium businesses in Southeast Asia. They utilise Machine Learning and AI to reach, serve, and evaluate new segments of customers.

Kelvin Teo, Group CEO & Co-founder Kelvin holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University, with more than five years of financial services experience at KKR, McKinsey and Accenture.

Reynold Wijaya, Co-founder Reynold holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Harvard University and was previously an Executive at United Family Food, one of Indonesia's largest confectionaries, where he drove expansion and efficiency to achieve millions of dollars in savings.

Jared Goldberg, CDO Jared has more than 14 years of experience in credit and collateral management, he was also the former Head of Business Integration and Analytics at Standard Chartered Bank.

Frank Stevenaar, CFO Frank has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and M&A. He was previously the Co-founder and CFO at GoBear.

Nihit Nirmal, CPO Nihit has over 15 years of experience in technology where he was previously Senior VP and Head of Product Management and Growth at Lending Kart, India’s largest digital SME lender.

Ishan Agrawal, CTO Ishan Agrawal has over 10 years of experience in technology. He previously led the building of data and tech products for Viki (Rakuten), Rocketfuel and Paypal in South East Asia, US and India.

Mr Heng Soon Pang

Mr Hsien-Hui Tong

Ms Juliana Lim

REVIVO

Integrated Microfluidics Systems for Organ-on-a-chip Testing