NUS Innovation & Entrepreneurship @SOC

On 4th Nov, we successfully organized a startup sharing event at iCube and invited Janson,  the co-funder of StaffAny  to share with us his experience on how he started his startup from NUS I&E program, in details with topics including the development and funding process: how did StaffAny grow in I&E incubator, what are the challenges they have met, and how did they start from having 0 to raising $1 million. In this article, we will share some impressive points mentioned by Janson during the sharing event. Background : StaffAny is a Home-grown human resource (HR) start-up company cultivated by NUS I&E 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 management application that connects HR and operations in order to better manage hourly workers. The solution will help customers from labour intensive industries, su...

Last week, we went to iCube, the I&E startup incubator and spoke to Jovin Liew, who is a NUS undergraduate and also the co-founder of a startup, The Zone. Their startup developed a guided journaling app, which provides different sets of writing prompts that helps people journal better. It also provides sentiment analysis, which helps to track the mood and emotions of the users. The team has already successfully applied the Furnace program. In this article, Jovin will share with us his startup experience and story with SOC I&E program. How do you come up with the startup idea? The idea was conceived with my roommates when we were living out of a small apartment in California. One of my roommates, Muruges has been journaling every week for the past four years and he realized there is no good app that allows him to do this in a better way. Most people still use Evernote or other kinds of note taking apps but we believe that journaling is a lot more than that. There are ...