Success Stories

For local agrifood tech enterprise ProfilePrint, success is beyond securing patented technologies that profile and predict the quality of food ingredients on the go. Supported by IPI’s strategic experts, the company also raised funds and ramped up global expansion plans to ride the growing demands for food ingredient premiumisation. Can one identify the molecular signatures of food ingredients or determine...

The ambition to automate an extremely labour-intensive building process saw Fabrica.AI working with IPI tech expert Mr Garrick Soon. Their goal: an improved robot prototype that could speed up the laying of floor tiles while lowering construction costs. Fabrica.AI Pte Ltd is a local start-up on a mission to boost construction productivity with a robot designed to accelerate the tile-grouting...

In a bid to turn the top and tails of fish into quality ingredients for human consumption, Denis Asia Pacific works with IPI and the team at Sunvisiae Biotech. In the world of tech, smartphones often take the spotlight, but beyond developing more efficiently powerful phones, the industry has also greatly improved one of life's greatest joys: food. With new...

When Robin Low, CEO of ARB Technologies (ARB), stepped through the doors of TechInnovation 2018, he was full of anticipation about meeting an innovation scout from Mitsui. It was his first time presenting his company to such a large MNC and one that could open new doors for the business. Following its inception in 1995, ARB evolved from focusing on electronics to specialising...

When Xander Sim, the inventor of Quiz biochip-based PCR, co-founded Cell ID in 2014, he had one goal in mind – to combine engineering and biological sciences to deliver fast, accurate, affordable and mass-deployable diagnostic solutions for home and near-patient use. As the medtech firm’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Sim oversaw the R&D for several products. This included Cell ID’s...

Yow Jia Hong is highly passionate about cars and it shows. Despite not having the relevant technical or industry experience in product formulation, he and his fellow co-founder of Artdeshine (ADS) set up the car detailing business and transformed it into a producer of experiential detailing products. Entirely self-taught, the duo’s emphasis on quality has made ADS a go-to brand...