One North Stories

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 listening. If you like what you’ve heard, please share wi...

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 Slingshot 2023 competition at SWITCH ,...

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.  Their first application is for co...

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? Workload specific compute? We're already there, so...

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, German, Spanish and Bahasa. Jae represen...

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 third overall, coming out of the Health...

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 one of two finalists in the Health a...

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, they convert electricity to microwave...

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 joined the pharmaceuticals industry, firs...

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 of his career working in start-ups,...

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 for redefining display technology through informa...

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 Bioscan Research shares about their technology for no...

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.  Born at the beginning of Covid...

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, TerraMatter (26:43). Paul from...

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 conservation for soil-based crop farming. Jenny from Repla is...

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 accelerate and scale soluti...

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 Winner is: Thermalytica There were international p...

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 Innovation, co-located at the same venue, Marina...

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 licensed from A*STAR, Occutrack has developed an...

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 releasing their first B2B product, which is a powerful...

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 runners up, Topologic (24:42) and XtaLight (31:37). T...

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 Huck Hui . The event was presented by Flagship Pio...

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 cirrhosis of the liver which is considered as unt...

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 Corporates, Investors, Research Institutions, Gover...

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. Insilico Medicine is an AI company, a software co...