Empowering NUS Alumni to Build Deep Tech Start-ups
The NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) is extending its support to NUS alumni for the first time.
“I want to help people to start companies and be wildly successful”
As a boy, Associate Professor Benjamin Tee wanted to invent to solve problems. At university, he learnt how to turn those inventions into successful businesses. Now, he is teaching others – including NUS alumni – to do the same.
Shy Entrepreneur Blooms with Tech Start-up
Upon fulfilling his dream to study innovation and entrepreneurship at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Zaid Ahmed Khan has overcome his inherent shyness and other challenges to launch a successful tech start-up.
Mind Your Business
Mr Bjorn Lee (Business ’06) uses AI to champion mental wellbeing at the workplace.
When Ideas Bear Fruit
A childhood love for horticulture has bloomed into a successful and game-changing enterprise by Dr Bao Shengjie (Science ’17).
Leading the ‘Charge’ in Zero-waste Efforts
How Mr Bryan Oh (Business ’19) and Mr Kenneth Palmer (Engineering ’20) are spearheading the recycling of lithium in batteries.
Savouring the Journey
Ms Katrina Lee (Business ’21) is the co-founder and CEO of a startup that aims to fight food waste in Singapore.
Catching that Fall
How a new product by HomePal, a company set up by College of Design and Engineering alumni Mr Chen Hong Wei (’21), Mr Lai Hoi Bing (’21) and Mr Tan De Jun (’22), could protect seniors living alone.
The Hero of ‘Zero’
Mr Preston Wong (Business ’13 + Law ’16) is tapping on tech to turn the tide against food waste.
An Idea that Holds Water
Dr Tan Wee Kee (Science ’99) from NUS Environmental Research Institute shares the details behind a patented innovation that can change how — and where — plants can be grown.
New Rules For The New Normal
NUS Deputy President for Innovation & Enterprise Professor Freddy Boey (Engineering ’87) looks at key trends in the start-up scene in the post-COVID-19 era.











