NUS Innovation & Entrepreneurship @SOC

Are you interested in tech entrepreneurship? Do you wonder how to raise one million investment for a start-up? Do you need any support to implement your good ideas? There will be a sharing session to answer all of these doubts, given by Janson Seah, the CEO of StaffAny who managed to raise S$1 million funds earlier this year. Join this session to learn from his start-up story and find out how you can start your own start-up journey. Time: 5:00pm – 6.30pm, 4th November, 2019 Venue: #03-40, iCube Sign up NOW as the slots are limited on the first-come-first-serve basis: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVTXxSCbwl8sawFf2IFjvMrAzTzkOnjen3Iwqi32fWvx6JvA/viewform About StaffAny StaffAny is a Home-grown human resource (HR) start-up company cultivated by NUS Innovation & Entrepreneurship program. Recently in this year, they raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by technology investment firm FreakOut Holdings. StaffAny’s enterprise software is a workforce...

Today, we had the opportunity to interview Lim Jiho, founder of Mobbin,  a comprehensive library of the latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design. Mobbin is currently used by over 70,000 designers and product people around the world, including those from design-mature companies such as Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter & Uber. Jiho started Mobbin in 2018 while he was in Year 3. Jiho shared with us how his start-up journey. 1.      Can you share with us how did you come about this idea for Mobbin? For the past three years, I have been designing mobile (iOS and Android) interfaces for clients as a freelance designer. Before designing for a product , the first thing that I would do is to conduct competitive analysis and create moodboard as part of UI/UX research. So basically I would check out the well-designed apps   from the App Store and take notes of how the apps worked and also the look and feel of them. But to...

This week, We went to the I&E@SOC incubator in ICube building and interviewed Joshua Foong, the co-founder of bantu. bantu is a web management platform targeted at NPOs (Non-Profit Organisations) to help them engage and deploy volunteers at ease. After NPO publish their projects on the website, volunteers can check and sign up for the program they are interested in. bantu has joined I&E program for 1 year 9 months, under the mentorship of Prof Francis YEOH and Prof Lai Kok Fung. 1. H ow do you come up with this idea to found bantu? bantu has four co-founders and we met during the NOC program in the US. One thing that we saw was there are a lot of gaps in the social sector especially in terms of technology. Therefore, we wanted to see how we can bring technology into a social capacity. This is the trigger and we are very active in this. We brought this concept back to Singapore and approached some non-profits. They said, can you help us build a management system. T...