Top 15 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Singapore in October 2023

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• Arduino — Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino created the worldwide trademark Genuino used as brand name outside the United States.
• Aspinity — Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.
• South 8 Technologies — South 8 Technologies develops liquefied gas electrolyte chemistry for rechargeable lithium metal batteries and electrochemical capacitors.

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• Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
• Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
• Automera — Automera focuses on a novel therapeutic methods to develop drugs.

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• Casma Therapeutics — Casma Therapeutics is a developer of a natural cellular process of autophagy to open new target areas for drug discovery and development. The company focuses on autophagy system to improve the cellular process of clearing out unwanted proteins, organelles and invading pathogens as well as tries to arrest or reverse the progression of lysosomalstorage disorders, muscle disorders, inflammatory disorders and neurodegeneration, enabling physicians to address unmet medical needs.
• Ractigen Therapeutics — Early-stage pharma company creating first-in-class therapies boosting expression of therapeutic genes in diseased cells using saRNA.
• LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY — LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY offers a range of insurance underwriting and asset management solutions. Its insurance products include death, medical, and disability insurance. The company also provides health counselling services. LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY was founded in October 2006.

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• Insectta — Insectta was founded in 2017 and produces materials from insects which can be applied across industries such as agrifood, pharmaceutical and electronics.
• HydroLeap — Hydroleap reimagines the way the world looks at water. We provide chemical-free, high-performance & modularized technologies to replace conventional processes.
• Zuno Carbon — Zuno provides end-to-end carbon management solutions that helps organizations measure, offset, and reduce emissions by integrating across your business value chain to collect activity data

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• GuateValley — GuateValley interconnects local guides with travelers to live experiences in little-known destinations.
• Sundial Foods — Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019.
• Origin Materials — Origin is a new kind of chemical company, focused on the future of materials science.

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• Ola Electric — Ola Electric Mobility engages in the leasing of electric cars. It is working with vehicle and battery manufacturers, cities, driver-partners, and the mobility ecosystem to make electric mobility convenient, dependable, and affordable. Ankit Jain and Anand Shah founded Ola Electric Mobility on May 26, 2017. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru inIndia.
• Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
• Electric Hydrogen — Electric Hydrogen designs and builds low-cost, high-efficiency green hydrogen systems to economically decarbonize industrial sectors like ammonia and steel

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• Cerecin — Cerecin is a healthcare company that develops novel evidence-based therapeutics and products that aim to help people.We develop novel evidence-based therapeutics and products that aim to help millions of people. These solutions are designed to target conditions ranging from memory impairment to Alzheimer’s disease and other devastatingneurological diseases.
• Easy Charger — Easy Charger provides EV infrastructure, electric two-wheeled vehicle battery station, solar power, and platform development services.
• Travel Wallet — Travel Wallet is a foreign currency payment service that uses the Travel Wallet application. The travel Pay card is free of charge for overseas payments. The payments are overseas direct purchases and overseas payments without commission. The license for small overseas remittance businesses and electronic financial businesses by meeting variouscomputer facilities and all requirements. The platform agreement with banks.

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• Ellona — Ellona develops environmental intelligence solutions-based devices for outdoor and indoor spaces. Its solutions help decision-makers improve their environments through the use of sensors capable of analyzing and monitoring both air quality and nuisances.
• Olino — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
• Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.

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• Nimbus Therapeutics — Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company. Nimbus Therapeutics is a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that is pioneering a new computational technology-driven paradigm to rapidly advance a diverse pipeline of novel small molecule product candidates into clinicaldevelopment. We are designing highly selective and potent medicines to disrupt known drivers of serious diseases, including metabolic disease, cancer and immune-inflammatory disorders.
• Relievant Medsystems — Relievant's mission is to provide patients with low risk therapy that can alleviate their back pain.
• Tagworks Pharmaceuticals — As pioneers of Click-to-Release technology, we are revolutionizing cancer treatment using in vivo click chemistry to increase the therapeutic window of powerful cancer therapies.

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• Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
• Sending.Me — SendingMe is Web3 native community chat software that engages, transacts, and compensates users.
• Fable Food — Noun - A tasty story with animals as characters, not dishes . Open your eyes to the incredible taste, texture and goodness of Fable.

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• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Wavebridge — Wavebridge is a top institutional digital asset company with traditional financial knowhows and crypto finance technology. The company was established in November 2018 to provide a comprehensive suite of investment solutions utilizing its data processing and AI technology.
• BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• AIZEN Global — AIZEN is redesigning Digital Banking with CreditConnect, powered by our proprietary ABACUS AutoML platform specialized in the financial services industry. CreditConnect is an AI lending platform designed to bridge the gap between banks and data economy platforms, and automate key decision-making processes in accordance with the credit cycle. Thecompany has secured Series B round funding from a state-led fintech innovation fund (K-Growth) led by major Korean banks to roll out CreditConnect in Southeast Asia.We are also leading the digital transformation in the financial services industry using proprietary AutoML platform ABACUS, with successful use cases in underwriting, fraud detection, product development, claim analysis, and more.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
• Inversago Pharma — Inversago Pharma is a preclinical-stage, biotech company specialized in the development of new therapies focusing on CB1 blockade, based on first-in-class, peripherally-acting, CB1 inverse agonists.
• Casma Therapeutics — Casma Therapeutics is a developer of a natural cellular process of autophagy to open new target areas for drug discovery and development. The company focuses on autophagy system to improve the cellular process of clearing out unwanted proteins, organelles and invading pathogens as well as tries to arrest or reverse the progression of lysosomalstorage disorders, muscle disorders, inflammatory disorders and neurodegeneration, enabling physicians to address unmet medical needs.

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• Halodoc — Halodoc merupakan aplikasi kesehatan yang memberikan solusi kesehatan lengkap dan terpercaya untuk memenuhi kebutuhan kesehatan kamu dan keluarga.
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• AMP — We make life simpler for merchants navigating the exponential growth of eCommerce with our suite of powerful software, global community, and educational resources.

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• VCAT.AI — VCAT.AI is a business-to-business (B2B) subscription software (SaaS) based on AI technology. Create mass marketing creatives as video and banner images just with an product URL or TEXT.
• cafe nono — Gathering together for quality discussions. Making your stories stand out. Join the community here and now!
• Pion — Pion Corporation is an Martech focused video intelligence company. We provide “Vispot”, a video creation and ad-automation platform powered by AI.