034: The State of Singapore's DEEPTECH, VC & START-UP Ecosystems w/ NTUitive's David Toh

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeping up with Asia’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems is challenging because the region’s DeepTech, Venture Capital and Start-up ecosystems are incredibly complex and diverse. Today, we are going to try to break it down by focusing on the ecosystems in just one country - Singapore. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are going to discuss three key topics. First, we’ll look at DeepTech to discover the latest trends and to understand what unique challenges start-ups in this space face. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, we’ll look at the state of Venture Capital in Singapore, and, more specifically, is there enough VC funds available to support the longer commercialisation cycles of DeepTech Startups. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, we’ll discuss how the start-up ecosystem is evolving and find out what cool new innovations are on the horizon. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To do this, we are joined by David Toh, the Interim CEO of NTUitive, which is the innovation and enterprise subsidiary of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which is ranked Number 12 in the latest World University Rankings.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Notes:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">01:00 Intro to NTUitive, including how it supports start-ups and engages with the technology innovation ecosystem. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">06:00 How does NTU look at DeepTech? And some examples of DeepTech solutions coming out of NTU. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">13:30 What unique challenges do DeepTech start-ups face? And due to their longer commercialisation cycle, how do they set near-term success metrics?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">19:30 Where has NTUitive been successful, and where is there room for improvement?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">21:30 David’s journey from semicon engineer to equity analyst to fund manager t