Entrepreneur First Formally Unveils Second-Singapore Startup Cohort at Investor Day 2018
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We’re very proud to have worked with them over the last six months, helping them build their companies, and are delighted to be unveiling such an ambitious cohort as we mark our second successful year in Singapore.” Alex Crompton, Director of EF Singapore, added: “They joined us as strangers six months ago, without teams or fully fledged ideas, and now join our global community as leaders and visionaries for a better future. We’re immensely proud of their commercial potential and we look forward to their contributions to Singapore’s economy.” EF’s entrepreneurship programme is touted as the ‘first of its kind’ in the world that accepts candidates pre-team and pre-ideas, with individuals selected purely based on their skills and domain expertise. People are leaving prestigious institutions such as Oxford, Stanford, Google and Goldman Sachs to start their own companies on the EF programme. Our efforts are prioritised around transformational technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and MedTech, which represent impactful and scalable answers to global challenges. Here are the 14 startup teams that make up EF Singapore’s 2nd cohort: 42LAB is revolutionizing the teaching of biotechnology by creating portable, affordable and user-friendly biotech lab tools for students and teachers.