Capstone
The objectives
To create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
To create and validate a business model
To equip the students with entrepreneurial knowledge and skillset to bring a product from conceptualisation to implementation in the market
Prepare the team to pitch for funding at the end of the Capstone
How It Works
Mainly divided into 4 steps
Team Formation
Each team comprises 5-7 students from at least 2 different pillars:
Engineering System Design (ESD),
Engineering Product Design (EPD),
Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD), &
Information System and Technology Design (ISTD)
Project Assessment
Entrepreneurship capstone projects must fulfil both business and technical requirements. The project will be assessed by both VIE and technical faculty members through a validation process comprising 1.5 days entrepreneurship Bootcamp, 1 week project validation and project pitching.
Project Commencement
The project commences during the Capstone terms, between January to August, with a matching grant from the University. During this period, mentoring sessions and practical workshops will be conducted to guide the students through the project and equip them with entrepreneurial skillsets.
Spin off the project
into an actual startup.
A demo day will be organised for the teams to pitch their ideas to investors to kick start their entrepreneurship journey
Capstone Projects
2021/2022
Seaforms
In line with Singapore’s “30 by 30” goal, our project will be targeting the four problems with today of Urban Farming. The problems are limited land space, high land cost, low energy efficiency and low production volume. Therefore, our solution is the development of the world’s first smart floating sea farm.
Chia Hou-An, Claudia Koh, Tan Shin Yee, Clement Vimal Ravindran, Ishaan Nair, Julius Ang Yang Zhi, Chung Zhi Xue
BigBrains
Our mission is to help and facilitate Singaporeans in discovering the joy of growing mushrooms for themselves, playing a more active role in the supply chain. Our objective is for Singaporeans to grow mushrooms with their community.
Princeton Poh Jin Heng, Anantharajan Vivekbala, Lee Jet Xuen, Joseph Chong Giap Sheng, Brandon Chong Wah Jin, Glen Chen Jie, Goh Ying Hao
HyphaLab
By producing mycelium based products as alternatives to our everyday objects, we intend to create fun, interactive, sustainable and safe mushroom-based toys and living art mediums for all ages.
Teo Sze Jia, Anisha Singh Le Shuang, Stephanie Seow Xi Hui, Benjamin Lim En How, Benjamin Lim Shang Zhi, Pan Zishan
JustAce
Our team aims to leverage the user base of our Telegram bot and convert them to paying users through an educational mobile app that will allow access to interactive educational videos and articles to the specific syllabi in Singapore – at the Primary, Secondary and Pre-University levels – to understand the same concepts and ideas from a whole new angle.
Max Koh Junran, Praveen s/o Rajesh, Victoria Yong, Carey Lai, Tan Peck Kee
TBO
TBO aims to develop a software which uses human behavioural data and machine learning to simulate user experience and optimize spatial design.
Jovin Lim Jing Kai, Valent Tan Wei Ren, Sheryl Mah Ying Ying, Sharmayne Lim Zhiyu, Wu Xin Yun, Andaramanage Charini Amanda Jinadasa
WasteNot
WasteNot's goal is to increase the percentage of 3D printed wastes to be recycled in SUTD and at the same time, promote the consumption of recycled products that customers would want to use - in hopes of extending the lifetime of the PLA plastic.
Chan Yan Ling, Lin Xiaoyu, Hou Bowen, Kenneth Heng, Soh Wei Si
2020/2021
ABC (A Better Chair)
Team ABC’s invention ‘Remoree’ is a personalised ergonomic chair which investigates the user’s ergonomic requirements and guides the user on how to customise it to achieve their optimal sitting experience.
Emil Goh, Timothy Stuart Ng Wei Wen, Daniel Tang Ju Qian, Wong Yi Xuan, Kwang Kai Jie, See Tow Jo Wee, Yeoh Jia Er
Curest
Curest aims to provide an intervention that helps sufferers track and relieve their migraines easily. This is done in part to help health practitioners identify triggers quicker in order to provide more targeted treatment, ultimately improving the quality of life of sufferers.
Adam Idris Lim Wei, Vijay Kevin Solomon, Nicole Sim Fang Sing, See Chin Chen Eugene, Mridula Ratheesh Thekkedath
ReVitalise
ReVitalise focuses on muscle injury prevention using data analysis. We aim to let users, physicians and trainers understand the limits of the body and improve the performance of the athletes. We aim to create a working system and a reliable model of our product before the end of our project.
Kingsley Tay, Declan Ng, Alysia Chai, Brandon Yeo, Wong Yong Xiang, Tan Hui Xin
STIG
Team STIG endeavours to create a new robotic platform to automate the yet unautomated task of seat-track inspection, with possible extensions into rolling out a fleet of such robots.
Tan Weiheng, Ong Jin Yang Brandon, Sim Hong Kai Amos, Tay Jia Wei, Cornelius Yap, Bryan Kong Shin Fai, Ryan Sacatani
Agora Sports
Agora Sports aims to grow the sports scene in Singapore and promote an active lifestyle among all Singaporean youths by sparking their interest in sports and introducing them in an interactive and convenient way. All this is done through a comprehensive platform which cultivates interest in sports and provides an interactive solution for users to pick up the basic rules and gameplay of various sports.
Jeremy Ng Kah Jun, Lim Jie Han, Joel, Megan Chor Xin Yi, Tay Kiat Hong, Teo Siang Chuan Daniel, Wilbert Aristo Guntoro, Wong Jing Yi
Aurient
Aurient seeks to enhance social integration of new employees by creating human-driven, human-centric onboarding experiences, facilitated and accelerated by Artificial Intelligence. Lora, the name of our product, will be a chat-based application that helps to onboard new hires and spark social interaction by creating conversations amongst the team.
Son Soo Han, Low En, Daryll Wong, Philip Wee, Stephen Alvin
Scratchbac
Scratchbac is a platform that allows users to requests or offers help/resources to the people around them; imagine having a personal PA system with you everywhere you go. Imagine having the ability to get help from the people immediately around you.
Our objective is to support social mobility and develop individual opportunities. We hope to achieve this by strengthening private initiatives and peer-to-peer responsibilities. In other words, Scratchbac’s mission is to privatize social welfare through a peer-to-peer market model.
Neo Theng Tat, Kenji Ling Chang Ling, Evangeline Lim, Jordan Tay, Ryan Yip, Yang Ao Bo, Kua Yi Jie Isaac
SAVR
SAVR is a Mobile Application that uses AI/ML Algorithms to track spending progress on different credit cards a user owns in order to recommend the best card for purchases in different categories to help users achieve the rebates and cashback that they deserve.
Eremus Soh, Douglas Poh, Matthew Wong, Jessica Davinia, Hansing Junitra
2019/2020
Proccoli
Proccoli is a SaaS (software as a service) e-procurement tool for the facilities management (FM) industry to make procurement processes efficient, transparent and integrated.
Wang Wei Liang, Koe Jia Yee, Chong Yu Kai, Zhou Enna, Tan Jin Yan, Low Wei Leong Lucus
Sourcebite
Sourcebite, a platform for food ingredients, will solve these issues by automatically matching the current conditions of the supply and the conditions that clients can accept. This makes the purchasing process more efficient and effective, allowing manpower to be redistributed elsewhere.
Lin Wanyuan, Dong Yuan Jia, Joel Tan, Kok Hua Jie, Addison Chew Jun Wei, Tan Jun Hui Augustine, Song Zhi Guo Zachery
MoBlocks
MoBlocks is a set of Architecture STEM building blocks, targeted at Preschool-Kindergarten Education.
Peng MaoYu, Soh Jun Xian, Sheeqal Rukirsor, Nicholas Witjaksono, Nigel Chan Terng Tseng
Energrid
Decentralized microgrids for energy sustainability.
Bryan Phang, Chloe Zheng, Yi Xuan, Thiang Wan Terng, Ave
Ezgineer
A smart system to detect spoilt streetlights and create a faster and simpler way of changing lights using electromagnets.
Toh Jia Pei, Chiew Jia Hui, Han Zhong Kwang, James Kusuma Dewa Halim, Shao Guanbo
2018/2019
MyX Brewery
A fully automate the bubble tea preparation process, integrating it into an “Automated Brewery” that accepts both pre-orders and live- orders for proprietary recipes of Bubble Tea.
CHERYL CHAN, GABRIEL WONG, KADY HO, TZE HOW LEE, YOS YOHANNES, YUSTYNN PANICKER
Myme
Myme.ai is designing the factory of the future. We’re building technology that allows workers to train robots by mimicking human actions, all without a single line of code.
WONG ZHENG XUN CHARLES, ARAVIND SATKUNASINGAM KANDIAH, HO JIE RUI CANNETH, KESHIGEYAN CHANDRASEGARAN, REUBEN WANG, RONG WEN, JUDITH LIM LI JUAN
Valterego
Valte-X is a smart, cross-platform virtual pet aimed to establish close rapport with you unlike other virtual pet games and simulations.
LIM YUET TUNG, RAY CHENG CHERN XI, FOO LIN GENG, TRACY YEE ENYING, LIM KEN JYI, CHOO HAN YE
IOT-CELL
Smart anomaly detection and defence for IoT networks
BHARAT ATUL DESAI, ISAAC NG YI MING, YAN YA XIN, MAO LI YAN, WANG NIAN YU, JOHN CHAN KARR ONN
Fantasy GG
Fantasy GG is an e-sport platform for mobile games and the goal of this project is to be the premiere fantasy league provider for esports in South East Asia.
TEO KAI XIANG, CHEN KAI ZHANG BRIAN, WOONG WEN TAT, CHERIA WIDAYANTO, ANDREW TAY WEI QUAN, CHEN HUI HUI, LOU ZHI QI
2017/2018
Blackbox
Democratizing the augmenting of reality
SANJAY PUSHPARAJAN, MELISSA MAK, TEO SI-YAN, SURESHKUMAR VIVEK KALYAN, TAI HONG WEN, MONICA NATHALIA`
Do-Do Technologies
Last mile logistics.
MANDIA JOAQUIN INIGO MANAS, CHOO JIA HUI, PAMMELA NG, NGUYEN THE HUNG STANLEY, CHUA TZE CHONG, LOH YI LIN
Flexihome
Electrically powered grids network and modular partitions panels.
XING BO, ONG WEI TONG, SNG EI JIA, QUEK WEN JIA MARCUS, TAN YONG JUN DANIEL
2016/2017
NovoCall
One-Stop customer service platform
ZHAO JUAN, WANG SIYUAN, KEVIN ONGKOWIJAYA, GAO XIONGYI, NG JIONGHAN
ENNOTATE
Collaborative e-annotation tool for education
HUANG JING JIE, JOEL ANG, SEET YU FEI, AMOS CHOO ZHONG SHENG
OMNI
A smart helmet aiming to improve motorcyclist safety
DARREN KOH, DYLAN TAN, LIM QUN, YI SHU, KEITH CHIA, MUHAMMAD HAFIZ
Mobearlize/ EMMA
A retrofitted motorized wheelchair unit
KIMBERLYN TJIPTO, CHUA RUI DE, FOO ZHI CHUEN, NG WEI QUAN, EUGENE MENG
2015/2016
DOCKET
A smart document classifier that allows companies to digitise and manage their content, saving time and improving utility.
GOH JIA HAO (ISTD), PEH QIN CHENG (ISTD), TAN WEI, JUN BENJAMIN (ESD), YAK JUN XIANG (ISTD)
Zaibike
Zaibike is a community-based smart bicycle sharing system that aims to make short distance commutes easy and efficient, and provide a platform to optimise the existing urban infrastructure.
TEAM EPAS: KELLY KUO KAI LI (EPD), LEE LI ZHEN (EPD), ONG YONG, SIANG (ASD), TAN CHANG TAT (EPD) TEAM ISES: CHOK XIN LIN (ESD), LEE JUN XIANG (ISTD), LIAO XIAO XUE (ESD), PORNTHIP SAE-CHONG (ISTD), TEE MAY YING (ISTD)
AARON
A mobile platform that enables anyone to help those in their community by providing services and earning additional income without deviating from their schedules at their own convenience.
HOONG YONG WEN, BENJAMIN (ASD), LAM YUN EN (ESD), LEE ZI SHAN (ISTD), LIN XUE HAN (ESD), NG ZI KAI (ESD), THE JUN HAO (EPD)
PULLA
The World’s most portable hand trolley
KIMBERLYN TJIPTO, CHUA RUI DE, FOO ZHI CHUEN, NG WEI QUAN, EUGENE MENG