One North Stories

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 roasting, they are creating a coffee bean substitute...

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 controlled environment. The lab grown fish fat has zer...

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 delivered orally for their beachhead market of aq...

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, assisted living environments, plus security and surve...

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 quantifies microbiomes, the collection of bacteria, fungi a...

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://www.linkedin.com/in/gustavoliu/ Origgin https://w...

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 indoor farming. Archisen is bringing technology to urb...

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 at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC, a...

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 genetic testing with the goal of having your genetic in...

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 realize the full potential of their technology. My...

This is One North Stories, an A*StartCentral Podcast. Jatin Kumar and Patrick Teyssonneyre of Xinterra join us to share about their founding journey. Xinterra is a spin-out company from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Xinterra has brought accelerated materials development to market. They combine artificial i...

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 the Singapore Institute for Manufacturing Technolo...

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-ups with A*StartCentral as our anchor. This trailer...