George Poh is a seasoned business leader with over 30 years of experience in electronics, precision engineering, and industrial manufacturing. As CEO of Unisteel Group, he spearheaded growth and global expansion. Currently, he serves on the SFS Group (www.sfs.com) Executive Board, overseeing SFS Group’s Asian operations as Head of Division Electronics. His expertise encompasses market expansion, technology development, business transformation, and M&A integration.
Chok Yean Hung has more than 30 years of management and technical experience in the semiconductor industry, and a track record of building and revitalising companies from start-up to becoming sustainable, matured, and publicly-listed companies.
Unveiling Our Finalists
Meet the 60 Finalists of the 12th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (LKYGBPC), selected from over 1,500 entries across 91 countries, in a year that marks Singapore’s 60th anniversary.
The LKYGBPC SG60 edition embodies the values that built Singapore: resilience, ingenuity, and commitment to progress that lifts others with it.
From cleaning the oceans and electrifying steel, to AI-designed drugs, bio-based leather, quantum photonics, and vertical wind power—these daring founders are tackling the most pressing global challenges of urban living and sustainability head-on.
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Sector: Climate Tech
Arculus
Arculus repurposes natural gas transmission pipelines for bulk transportation of either CO2 or hydrogen, thanks to a patented barrier coating applied on the internal surface of the pipe.
Sector: Public Health
ChemT Biotechnology
At ChemT Biotechnology, we revolutionize bio-manufacturing with AI-designed small molecules that enable precise and tunable modulation of cell behaviour.
Sector: Emerging Tech
ChipEvo Ltd
Towards One-Click Chip Generation: ChipEvo leverages Large Language Models to revolutionize silicon design and verification with 10x faster development and significant cost savings.
Sector: Energy Transition
Cold Battery
Cold Battery is a cutting-edge solution for storing and delivering cold energy efficiently, boosting profits and slashing emissions across industrial cooling applications.
Sector: Carbon Tech
EarthFlow AI
EarthFlow AI is making subsurface climate and energy solutions scalable with ultra-fast AI simulation.
Sector: Climate Tech
Heliotrope Photonics
Heliotrope’s innovative coating technology enhances solar panel performance by transforming the sunlight, delivering an impressive power boost of up to 15 percent.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
Helix Carbon
Helix Carbon provides electrolyzers to the steel industry that upcycle CO2 directly out of waste gas, no carbon capture required.
Sector: Food and Land Use
HyveGeo
HyveGeo removes CO2 from the air while boosting food security in arid regions.
Sector: Green Building & Construction
Inviscid AI
Inviscid AI delivers physics-informed AI that creates digital twins and simulations up to 1000x faster than traditional methods for design optimization.
Sector: Emerging Tech
Luxtelligence
We develop energy-efficient photonic circuits for Quantum and AI, leveraging advanced thin-film materials to enable next-generation, high-performance connectivity solutions.
Sector: Climate Tech
Micromelt Ltd
Micromelt is a deep-tech startup transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into virgin-grade products using a breakthrough microwave-driven catalytic process.
Sector: Green Building and Construction
Mimicrete Ltd
Powering the smart infrastructure of tomorrow.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
Neela Biotech
Neela Biotech produces carbon-negative aviation fuel from waste using AI and synthetic biology, leveraging existing biogas and HEFA refinery infrastructure.
Sector: Public Health
Nephrogen
Nephrogen is developing curative gene therapies for kidney and pancreatic diseases, which affect more than 15% of the global population but have zero effective treatments.
Sector: Public Health
Oculab
Oculab strengthens Tuberculosis (TB) monitoring by bringing AI-powered analysis to microscopes through smartphone, reducing examination time to 10 minutes while achieving 87% accuracy rates.
Sector: Climate Tech
OmniPath H2
Novel industrial decarbonization technologies lowering costs for the hydrogen economies of today AND tomorrow.
Sector: Emerging Tech
Photoncore 光子芯力
PhotonCore Technologies focuses on the cutting-edge development of Electronic-Photonic hybrid computing architecture chips.
Sector: Carbon Tech
PRONOE
Restoring our oceans' natural capacity to permanently remove CO2. Worldwide.
Sector: Water Solutions
Puralink
The autonomous robotics platform for pipe inspection, mapping, and repair.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Quon Energy
Development and installation of next-generation geothermal power tailored to the geological conditions in the volcanic region.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
ReZinc
ReZinc - a sustainable innovation to transform carbon-based batteries waste into high-quality carbon paint for metal surfaces.
Sector: Public Health
Saint Novel
Saint Novel enables drug discovery with innovative GenAI and full-stack drug development success experience (from in silico design to phase II trial which was sold to Sanofi at 1.5 billion USD).
Sector: Public Health
SinuStim
SinuStim is developing an oral appliance that instantly alleviates nasal congestion and facial pain for patients with chronic sinus disease by using gentle electrical pulses that regulate overactive nasal nerves.
Sector: Urban Mobility Solutions
SMART Tire
The world's first high performance airless tires, based on NASA technology.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Untapped Energies
Untapped Energies unlock 100% renewable wind & hydro energy from unutilised, 'untapped' real estate.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
UpcycleX
UpcycleX, out of MIT, is transforming the chemical industry with a scalable, zero-emissions electrocatalytic platform that turns plastic waste into high-value products, unlocking an $80B market opportunity.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Vertical Horizons
Scalable vertical GaN technology to dramatically improve energy efficiency and power density for AI, in data centers.
Sector: Public Health
Vivid Dx
Vivid Dx is developing a next-generation platform to deliver broad pathogen ID in 30 minutes and phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) in 3 hours – directly from blood, with no blood culture required.
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Sector: Energy Transitions
8inks
8inks revolutionizes battery manufacturing with multilayer curtain coating—enabling higher performance, lower cost, and scalable production of next-generation lithium-ion and solid-state batteries.
Sector: Emerging Tech
Aerologix
Aerologix is a drone technology platform connecting clients with 40,000+ pilots, delivering on-demand aerial data, mapping, and AI insights for infrastructure, environment, and industry.
Sector: Climate Tech
Amphitrite
Harnessing Satellites & Artificial Intelligence to produce reliable ocean data and take the best decisions at sea.
Sector: Public Health
Castomize
Castomize, a startup from Singapore Management University and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, is making healthcare more accessible, effective, and less invasive by creating impactful medical devices using advanced manufacturing technologies.
Sector: Carbon Tech
Clean C02
CLEANCO2 is China's CCUS mineralization technology pioneer and industrialization leader.
Sector: Carbon Tech
CyanoCapture
Synthesising insulin and $40 billion worth of drug precursor molecules by harnessing a photosynthetic cell discovered in 2020.
Sector: Emerging Tech
Deep Principle
A world-leading technology innovation company specializing in AI for Chemistry/Materials.
Sector: Emerging Tech
Dunia Innovations
Dunia Innovations is revolutionizing the field of material discovery by leveraging cutting-edge AI and autonomous experimentation to bring breakthrough materials to the world.
Sector: Public Health
Enantios
ENANTIOS enables the fast, simple, and robust characterisation of complex and chiral molecules and biologics for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry.
Sector: Energy Transitions
exnaton
exnaton enables utilities to quickly launch innovative, data-driven electricity products with its AI-powered billing platform — accelerating the energy transition.
Sector: Transport & Logistics
Expedock
Expedock's flexible tech solutions automate workflows and improve visibility, empowering your team to focus on what matters most.
Sector: Green Building & Construction
Genia
Genia builds Generative Design CoPilots for engineers in construction helping them design permit-ready drawings 10x faster with 20% material savings.
Sector: Homeland Security
Jmem Tek
Jmem Tek provides ready-to-deploy JPUF-based quantum resilient security solutions for vulnerable industries to address encryption obsolescence concerns as quantum computing advances.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
Kerong Catalyst
Kerong: Leading the Application of Precious Metal Catalyst Technology in the Environmental Protection Industry! 科融, 引领贵金属催化剂技术在环保行业中的应用！
Sector: Food & Land Use
Koralo
Koralo creates functional food and feed enriching health and beauty with patented co-fermentation of microalgae and mushroom roots - delicious, functional and affordable.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
MacroCycle Technologies
MacroCycle is the venture creating circular plastics and textiles at cost parity and with zero carbon emissions.
Sector: Climate Tech
Map Collective
MapCollective.com is a multi-tier supply chain traceability data mining and dashboard platform, helping procurement and sustainability organizations gather supplier data.
Sector: Emerging Tech
MUI-Robotics
MUI-Robotics specializes in sensory-AI which imitate human smell sense with high accuracy for real-time quality control, safety, and environmental monitoring globally.
Sector: Emerging Tech
OrionGo
OrionGo specialises in the development and integration of positioning algorithms, with strong R&D in inertial navigation, geomagnetic positioning, Wi-Fi, 5G, GNSS, BLE and AI positioning fusion technology
Sector: Climate Tech
Qarbotech
Qarbotech develops patented photosynthesis-enhancing solutions that boost crop yields sustainably, helping farmers grow more food with fewer resources while combating climate change.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Sesame Sustainability
Sesame Sustainability's industrial-grade modeling platform transforms how energy companies plan multi-billion-dollar decarbonization investments, compressing analysis from years to weeks.
Sector: Emerging Tech
SpaceFields
We are building the “Northrop Grumman of the 21st century” from India. SpaceFields aspires to be the dedicated merchant developer and integrator for next-gen bespoke solid propulsion for burgeoning aerospace and defence markets.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
SynMetabio
We’re the world’s first company to mass-produce bio-based synthetic leather at million-meters scale for high-performance uses like automotive and footwear.
Sector: Sustainable Materials & Circularity
Tidetron Bioworks
Tidetron Bioworks is a pioneering platform that integrates synthetic biology and AI to drive low-carbon innovation.
Sector: Emerging Tech
UniversalLab
Reshaping the $60B materials R&D testing industry with AI agents.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Klimatech
Vortex is Klimatech’s vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) that combines aesthetics and function for sustainable energy in urban, remote, and commercial spaces.
Sector: Water Solutions
Xatoms
Xatoms discovers new materials using AI and quantum chemistry for water purification.
Sector: Energy Transitions
Zhejiang Polar Code Technology
浙江极码电子科技有限公司
Smart microgrids with advanced proprietary software and innovative grid solutions.
DueAI™ Challenge Finalists
Due AI Challenge | FINALIST
Evalyze.
Evalyze is an AI platform that automates fundraising and due diligence for startups and VCs through intelligent scoring, investor matching, and outreach automation.
Due AI Challenge | FINALIST
Puffer AI
Puffer AI unifies under-utilized startup data, expert know-how and AI-driven workflows to accelerate research, scouting and evaluation—turning scattered information into smarter, faster investment decisions.
Due AI Challenge | FINALIST
Shensu AI
Shensu AI creates AI-driven automation tools that optimize financial operations, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for individuals and enterprises alike.
RVLT50 Finalists
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