The Singapore Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Singapore Virtual 2021 program.
Over 280+ founders applied to the program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just 13 companies were able to make it through.
The new FI Singapore Alumni invite members of the public to join them live for a Graduation online event, on Wednesday, 17 November 2021.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Singapore's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Singapore program:
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Evexia Collective
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Hewania
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Neptrix
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Nudsmiles
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Open Future
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PestaLoka
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Piggyback
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PRToken
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Provenance Labs
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Sukhasa Studio
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Storius
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Umego
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Zervee
The Singapore Virtual 2021 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Leaders of the Singapore Founder Institute: Jayren Teo (Director, FI Singapore), Yee Gary Ang (Director, FI Singapore). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Singapore that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Singapore Virtual 2021 program was supported by some of Singapore's top technology organizations, including:

Some of Singapore’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
- Aaron Kong: Partner, SG Story
- Andrew Chou
- Bilal Ismail: Founder, Dalil Concierge
- Chee Leong Thoo
- Dan Soh
- David Weekly: CEO, Medcorder & Network Weather
- David Yin
- Eddie L
- Gabriel Sim
- Gerald Ong: Founder/CEO, Conscious Emergence Pte Ltd
- Jae Lee: Co-founder and CEO, FM Insight
- Jayren Teo
- Jed Ng: Super Angel & Founder, Angel School
- Jeffrey Paine: Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore
- Jocelyn Ng
- Joseph Lee: Mr, Janesis Consulting
- Kelvin Tan
- Mandy Hon: Co-Founder & CEO, ImpacFat |
- Niket Desai: GSD Wizard + Product, Punchd, Google Austria
- Ophilia Yong
- Orkan Akcan
- Paul Meyers: CEO, Appetite Labs
- Peiyun Tan
- Ser Yeng Ler, SUTD
- Siavash Sakhavi: Head of AI Product Engineering, Prudential Assurance Company SIngapore
- Yan Yuan Tan: Chief Executive Officer, Y Medical & Wellness Pte. Ltd.
- Yee Gary Ang: Family Physician, Nhg polyclinic
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 2BN.
After Graduation, the new Singapore Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Singapore Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/singapore.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 2BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.
