Venture Initiation Programme@SoC
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 14 October 2024)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2024/2025 | 1.Eduville | V Varsha | Eduville is a classroom engagement application designed for language learning, combining cultural education with engaging lesson plans. | Lai Kok Fung |
| 2.Ekko | Joshua TAN Yu Jie | Ekko is an AI tutor project designed specifically for A-Level economics students in China. | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 3.Genuinify | Arash PASHRASHID | Genuinify is a tool designed to stop scam calls like phishing, robocalls and fake audio tricks by using smart AI to listen and analyze how these calls sound and behave. | Francis Yeoh | |
| 4.Memory Keeper | NGUYEN Mai Huong | Memory Keeper is a simple tool designed to help people, especially those aged 65 to 74, write and share their life stories. | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 5.ProNotes | Dexter LENG Jin Hao | ProNotes enables Apple Notes users to publish directly to their personal websites and update live from any Apple device. | Wong Weng-Fai | |
| 6.Solar Tag | KWA Jian Quan | Solar Tag is a solar-powered, wearable device that tracks UV exposure. It comes with a companion app that alerts users if they’re getting too much or too little UV light. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 7.Teebloc | KIM Young Jin | Teebloc uses LLM to automate the sorting of past exam questions into topics and create tailored PDF worksheets. | Wong Weng-Fai | |
| 8.Telequotes | Davidson CHUA | Telequotes is designed to simplify car selling by aggregating offers from various auction sites into one easy-to-use interface. | Edwin Koh | |
| 9.TicketIT | Ojas SURANA | TicketIT aims to transform event ticketing by enabling direct ticket purchases through popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. | Victor Ng | |
| 10.VetBuddy | Basudeb CHAKRABORTY | VetBuddy is a digital tool designed to help veterinarians in Singapore, ASEAN and India work more efficiently. | Suranga Nanayakkara |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 4 April 2024)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2023/2024 | 1. Classlancer | Aditya GHOSH | Classlancer aims to build a comprehensive educational ecosystem for local middle and high school students, providing a blend of academic and extracurricular resources, customized lessons, and peer tutoring across different curriculums while ensuring content stays relevant through a cyclic model. | Francis Yeoh |
2. Jouvire | Ryan LOH Yong Rui | Jouvire, an AI Wedding Planner, streamlines wedding planning by recommending vendors, managing negotiations, and verifying contracts. It enhances the initial experience for couples and offers quality leads to vendors, setting it apart from other platforms. | Edwin Koh | |
| 3. LegalExpert | MU Zhaoyu | LegalExpert offers immediate, professional legal explanations and document assistance, powered by LLM technology. It’s designed for law offices and individuals seeking legal aid, featuring case predictions and a privacy-focused model to ensure confidentiality. | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 4. Omega City | LEE Yong Ning | Omega City tackles the isolation many novice programmers feel by blending a supportive community with gamified, collaborative challenges. Addressing a 50% dropout rate, it boosts learning and motivation through social engagement. | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 5. Mirror World | CHEN Yu | Mirror World innovates with a digital twin technology, transforming real-world scenes into an immersive virtual 3D environment using advanced rendering algorithms. It caters to markets like virtual tourism, 3D navigation, and heritage preservation, offering users a realistic, interactive experience beyond spatial and temporal constraints. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 6. Jouzu | ZHANG Yifan Jem | Jouzu innovates Japanese learning through real interactions, focusing on active recall and practical usage. Initially for Japanese learners, it aims to expand to all languages, enhancing learning efficiency. | Pete Kellock |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 10 October 2023)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2023/2024 | 1.IntelliGrove | Raman GUPTA | IntelliGrove uses Natural Language Processing to convert psychiatric notes into Knowledge Trees for better data organization, aiding informed decision-making. | Francis Yeoh |
| 2.DocuSurf | TIN En Hao | DocuSurf streamlines document navigation with semantic search, results organization, and visual mapping, benefiting researchers, students, and professionals. | Wong Weng-Fai | |
| 3.RehabIt | Samuel FOO Enze | RehabIt transforms orthopedic rehabilitation through motion sensors, LUNA virtual assistant, and wearables, enabling remote personalized recovery via real-time videoconferencing, integrated with healthcare systems. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 4.Lexill | Ethan CHEN Ee Shuen | Lexill is a gamified language-learning app helping students accelerate memorization using personalized AI generated mnemonics and features result analytics and space repetition quizzing to improve recall. | Edwin Koh | |
| 5.Wunderguide | Terence LEE Chin Jie | Wunderguide’s AI-driven app provides personalized, cost-effective guided tours, saving users time and reducing expenses, with a focus on tech-savvy Gen Zs and Millennials in the global travel industry. | Pete Kellock | |
| 6.Bob | Drustan YEO | Bob is an AI-driven legal search engine, serving law students and firms by delivering precise and validated results swiftly. | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 7.Supacharge | KOK Joon Eu Shawn | Supacharge enhances startup team meetings with AI, addressing issues like focus, note-taking, and action items, offering adaptive solutions. | Filippo Giachi | |
| 8.Voila | GAUTHAM Kailash | Voila is an OCR app with NLP for simplified calendar event creation through gestures, offering a superior solution. | Pete Kellock | |
| 9.FoloUp | Suveen ELLAWELA | FoloUp’s AI-driven forms streamline in-depth interviews, accelerating data collection for researchers and product companies, yielding richer insights than conventional methods. | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 10.Nth Dimension | Ezekiel ANG Jing Hung | Nth Dimension blends gaming and shopping, uniting users, vendors, and advertisers in a rewarding ecosystem that prioritizes loyalty and engagement. | Filippo Giachi | |
| 11.Aspire AI | HO Lok Wah | Aspire AI provides affordable 1-to-1 AI tutoring, customized for quality education outside school hours, with a commitment to accuracy and reliability. | Francis Yeoh |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 2 May 2023)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2022/2023 | 1. BetterEarth | Cui Shen Yi | BetterEarth gaming app is designed to encourage sustainable living habits by making it fun and engaging to learn eco-friendly practices and incorporate them into daily life. | Lai Kok Fung |
| 2. ChemQuest | Kim Yongbeom | By automating and personalizing the setting of questions – we help physical science and engineering students learn by matching them up automatically with questions suitable for their competency. We reconcile educators’ many responsibilities and students’ never-ending requests for practice problems to improve their competencies. | Pete Kellock | |
| 3. Birdlabs.ai | Dion Neo | Birdlabs.ai is building a chat-based tool to help developers understand code in minutes instead of hours. | Wong Weng-Fai | |
| 4. Surf – ChatGPT for smart contracts | Ethan Wei Yuxin | Surf aims to address one of the critical aspects of the Web3 landscape – smart contracts | Wong Weng-Fai | |
| 5. TreeTabs | Aryan Jain | A graphical interface where browser tabs are presented in a tree. Its visual nature allows for easy organization and navigation for those planning their next travel. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 6. Vault of Scrolls | Gernene Tan | VoS is a digital novel marketplace with an integrated editing platform. Readers want quality novels and writers want accessible editing. By integrating the editing process before novels reach readers, our platform differentiates itself from competitors. | Francis Yeoh | |
| 7. Wrythm | Vaishnav Muralidharan | Wrythm is an AI tool to annotate pieces of the tabla (Indian Hand Drum) to allow novice students to record and easily manage notes of their lessons. | Pete Kellock |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 3 October 2022)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2022/2023 | 1. Dynote | Wang Xiuxuan | A cross-platform handwriting app. supporting different platforms and with great syncing features. | Wong Weng Fai |
| 2. ezWeb | Li Chengyue | A one-stop telegram-bot powered site management tool that allows users to create, update and analyze websites by interacting telegram bot. | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 3. GigZ Home | Alissa Yarmantho | Gigz is a one-stop platform for all things related to home services such as aircon repairs/maintenance, home cleaning, plumbing etc. | Pete Kellock | |
| 4. My Bionic Bear | Mathan Chidambaranathan | My Bionic Bear is an engineering workshop for young students (10-15 years old) to build their own robot, incorporating micro-controllers to help build students’ computational thinking abilities from a young age. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 5.Marymount Labs | Chok Yong Hsin, Zacchaeus | Marymount Labs generates synthetic data on-demand to help SMEs make their existing datasets (small-scale, incomplete, non-representative) to become compatible with today’s big data paradigm. | Pete Kellock | |
| 6. The 100 Club | Sean Tan | The 100 Club [https://the100club.io/] is a private mastermind community for the most successful founders in tech. | Francis Yeoh | |
| 7. Virtuality | Ang Yang Cheng | A build-your-own virtual influencer platform – allowing brands, creative agencies and individuals to create virtual influencers with minimal technical expertise. | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 8. Ximplear | Teoh Jun Jie | The core problem we want to solve is, how do we locate an object in a space affordably and accurately. | Lai Kok Fung |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 22 April 2022)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2021/2022 | 1. ASA Team | Marcus Tan Zhong Hong | An app aimed at merging HR with mental well-being with the latter using the PERMA model. AI will be used to evaluate and flag mental well-being issues. | Francis Yeoh |
| 2. Cyberlife | Owen Yap Yuhan | Cyberlife provides pre-diagnosis of nerve issues in a telemedicine setting. The app aims to track disease progression and automate some of the assessment tasks. | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 3. Easy Itinerary | Isaac Tan Pang Yew | A Telegram-based itinerary planning app. | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 4. EzCompostr | Gabriel Yang Yao Guang | An app to aid composting by linking people interested in composting their food waste with potential users of the compost. | Steve O’Connor | |
| 5. Gesture Interface for Augmented Reality | Isaac Khoo Jia Le | A glove device paired with a VR glasses to aid persons with muscular disability to interact with applications. | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 6. Sync Sense | Kartike Khandelwal | An audio remote monitoring device with AI capability to diagnose potential faults in wind turbine farms. | Pete Kellock | |
| 7. Tranquilio | Mathur Aayush | A personalized mental wellness app aimed at workplace stress management. | Lai Kok Fung |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 21st October 2021)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Business Idea | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2021/2022 | 1. AvTant | Zhang Zhiyao | Learning Pronunciations by the deaf. | Seah Choon Meng |
| 2. Coinhall | Aaron Choo Qi Le | Real time charting tool for Terra blockchain. | Francis Yeoh | |
| 3. Floramis | Raghav Bhardwaj | A smart flower pot that also doubles as a pet. | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 4. Global Certificates | Deshmukh Durvesh Satish | Using block chain to store verifiable documents. | Francis Yeoh | |
| 5. HayStack | Tan Ye Kai | Better support for code search, using a natural language interface. | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 6. Wottle NFT | Elton Tay Jing Sheng | A blockchain NFT app for digital artist. | Wong Weng Fai |
VIP@SoC (Date of award: 1st June 2021)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2020/2021 | 1. bonafide | Eden Chew Jun An | Seah Choon Meng |
| 2. BovinTech-Livestock Identification System | Mohammad Shoib Memon Loya | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 3. Contrannect/BuildConnect | Ang Koon Hian | Pete Kellock | |
| 4. Escapade | Aiden Low Yew Woei | Francis Yeoh | |
| 5. IoT enabled wearables in hospitals | Qiu Jing Ying | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 6. OnSight Construction Management | Khenus Tan Jia Liang | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 7. Physiospal | Ernest Chan Yew Whye | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 8. Poodlefinance | Haojun Gao | Pete Kellock | |
| 9. Silver Buddy | Murugesan Karthika | Francis Yeoh |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 12 October 2020)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2020/2021 | 1. Carte | Phang Tze Ming | Lai Kok Fung |
| 2. Data Terrain | Ian Wu Ling En Anshul Anil Gaur | Bimlesh Wadhwa Wong Weng Fai | |
| 3. Gratify | Teng Dao Xiong | Francis Yeoh | |
| 4. I Meet Myself | Benjamin Fheng Guo Jing | Francis Yeoh | |
| 5. OneHouse | Tang Guofeng | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 6. SwapIt | Roy Chan Chuan Zhi | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 7. Tutoria | Jereld Lim Jun You | Pete Kellock | |
| 8. UniLytics | Li Xingxuan | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 9. Vibefam | Lim Chun Yong | Pete Kellock |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 30 April 2020)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2019/2020 | 1. Cent It | Lee Jia Yao Edward | Francis Yeoh |
| 2. Crater | Yeo Chong Ern Marcus | Francis Yeoh | |
| 3. Gulliver | Lim Shi Chen Kerwin | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 4. Novel Braille Reader | Gaurav Sharma | Pete Kellock | |
| 5. YourWiFi | Shi Lianjie | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 6. yWaste | Khairul Iman Nasri Bin Azharie | Ng Teck Khim |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 1 October 2019)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2019/2020 | 1. AtomiCloud | Jerry Zhang Zhuoran | Wong Weng Fai |
| 2. CoduE | Rishi Mahadevan | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 3. Ease of prototyping | Elliot Tan Yew Han | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 4. Fade.AI | Shawn Chew | Pete Kellock | |
| 5. Husslr | Pereira Yip Ding Xian | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 6. ShareShip | Tan Pinxi | Francis Yeoh | |
| 7. SilverRide | Low Zi Jie | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 8. Social Vision | Aaryam Srivastava | Steve O’Connor |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 17 April 2019)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 AY2018/2019 | 1. AirWatcher | Xu Junyuan | Wong Weng Fai |
| 2. Apexie | Ang Zhan Yu, Alex | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 3. BrideTool | Mak Zhi Hao, Keloysius | Francis Yeoh | |
| 4. Generating Signals from Alternative Data for Financial Predictive Analytics | Francesco Gelli | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 5. IntraChat | Lim Cheng Zhong, Joshua | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 6. JumpQueue | Chia Jia Jin, Justin | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 7. POPPEG | Giam Ju Xian | Francis Yeoh | |
| 8. SmartEdge | Waleed Al-Gobi | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 9. WaitNoMore | Lo Ka Chun, Marcus LI Peng Cheng, Jacob | Francis Yeoh |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 3 October 2018)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 1 AY2018/2019 | 1. Variora | Fan Wenkai | Wong Weng Fai |
| 2. Mobbin | Lim Ji Ho | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 3. Home Sweet Home | Zhuang Yuan | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 4. ViewBase | Chen Qinghao William | Seah Choon Meng | |
| 5. Makan Rescue | Ahmad Syafiq Bin Ruhazat | Francis Yeoh |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 30 April 2018)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
Sem 2 | 1. ALeap | Lei Yang | Lai Kok Fung |
| 2. Information from User to User | Soh Jiong Hao | Rahul Jain | |
| 3. SlionS Karaoke | Wang Riwu | Wang Ye | |
| 4. Webcast.ly | Stephen Chua Rong Zhi | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 5. Targeted Iterative Feedback | Choo Jek Bao | Francis Yeoh | |
| 6. DateIdeas Singapore | Lee Kuan Fei | Lai Kok Fung |
I&E Practicum@SoC (Date of award: 23 November 2017)
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sem1 AY2017/2018 | 1. ASPECT | Zhang Jiangwei | Pete Kellock |
| 2. ConneKt | Adeeb Ashraf Bin Mirzha Alam Arif | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 3. inDvision | Debabrota Basu | Francis Yeoh | |
| 4. IPAC | Tran Duc Muoi | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 5. Jio | Victor Yeo Wei Teck | Wong Sang Wuoh,Seah Choon Meng | |
| 6. –Motion | Yong Zhun Hung | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 7. ShopNdrop | Ashesh Sasidharan | James Pang |
I&E Practicum@SoC
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student | Faculty Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1. bBridge++ Online | Ivan Samborskii | Francis Yeoh |
| 2. BNVirt | Pravein Govindan Kannan | Wong Weng Fai | |
| 3. Dingle Tutors | Kwok Jun Kiat | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 4. Jayeo | Ng Zi Kai | Lai Kok Fung | |
| 5. SmartPool | Luu The Loi | Ng Teck Khim | |
| 6. Voix | Teo De-Zhao | Lai Kok Fung |
I&E Practicum@SoC
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1. Akefe | Chen Xiangyun |
| 2. Elyfunt | Shenbaga Lakshmi Srinivasan | |
| 3. Horfen | Tan Kar Tong | |
| 4. iAm Health | Nguyen Duy Hoang | |
| 5. LineUp | Ho Ren Sen | |
| 6. Beerround | Camille Sophie Ida Strasser |
VaSCo Award Winners
| Year | Project Title | Name of Student |
|---|---|---|
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