GAP Funding
What is it about?
Research commercialisation grants of up to $250,000 each will be awarded to teams to develop SUTD IP into a working prototype with the intent of starting a spinoff company. Proposals are evaluated based on the technical innovation, commercial feasibility, and the capability of the team.
Teams will receive regular consultations and ecosystem support from our in-house venture partners and mentors-in-residence.


You can expect:
• Up to $250,000 funding
• In-house venture partner support
• Incubation Resources
• Tailored Programme guidance
• Investor pitching opportunities
• Team matching opportunities
Judging Criteria
Including but not limited to

Commercialization Potential
- Does the research have scalable market potential in any of the identified markets?

Technical
Innovation
- How different is the technology compared to what available in the market?
- Does the project have a clear technology development roadmap?

Capability of the Management Team
- Who are the team members and their respective roles?
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What are the technical capabilities of the team members?
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What commercial experience do the team members have?

Effective Project Outcomes
- Are the proposed project outcomes useful for the team to secure further runway?
Terms & Conditions
Awarded teams must go through and complete the ARISE (Accelerating Research and Innovation for SUTD Entrepreneurs) Programme

Awarded funds are subjected to indirect research cost and will be disbursed through reimbursements

Funds are to be utilized according to the list of fundable items and within the awarded project duration

SUTD VIE reserves the right to make any changes to any guidelines and submission templates

Eligibility




Eligibility

The project should not have been carried out by an incorporated company.

Application Process

Call for proposal for the GAP Funding will be opened to SUTD faculty members and researchers in the first quarter of the year.

Submit your completed Project Proposal, Technology Disclosure form (if applicable) and Presentation Deck to entrepreneurship@sutd.edu.sg

An email confirmation will be sent to notify that your proposal has been received. If you did not receive any confirmation email, please check in directly with entrepreneurship@sutd.edu.sg.

Upon submission, VIE will assess the project eligibility. Shortlisted start-ups will be invited to submit their pitch deck and to be evaluated by a panel based on its technical feasibility and commercialization potential. Successful applicants will be directly contacted by VIE via call or email.
Research Commercialisation Projects
Research Commercialisation Teams

AirQ
AirQ platform is an innovative, cost-effective solution for air quality and environmental monitoring. The AirQ device is small, portable and low-cost. It provides real-time and location-specific air quality and environmental data via the AirQ Dashboard and Smartphone App.
Advanced data analytics techniques have been developed for data calibration and data-driven services. The AirQ solution can be used for schools and childcare centres, facilities management, intelligent lampposts, smart buildings, and other use cases.

Auroflow
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) currently require clinical Uroflowmetry assessment to diagnose and track for treatment and recovery. Current Uroflowmetry assessment at specialist clinics requires patients to void ‘on-command’ (in a foreign environment), limiting the efficacy of clinical evaluation.
Auroflow is a solution that determines uroflow data from audio recordings collected while voiding in the home context, which is more natural for the patient and allows frequent and regular assessments. Integrating a suite of hardware, software and mobile app, we then support clinicians with improved patient monitoring in the home, providing a new paradigm in remote urology care.

Carbonbits
The rapidly escalating global CO2 levels arising from essential economic and human activities result in dangerous global consequences—significant efforts in decarbonization focus on point-source carbon capture. CarbonBits aspires to contribute to decarbonization in urban spaces through distributed direct air capture. Not deterred by the considerably more dilute carbon concentration outside of point sources, CarbonBits views that “every bit” of carbon counts.
The De-Carbonizer, a 1st generation low footprint device that captures and releases CO2 on demand, has been developed. This pioneering technology seeks to expand the circular carbon economy by closing the loop between capture and utilization. Our product is based on a proprietary material that requires less space and energy and is versatile enough for ready integration into urban or confined spaces. The possibilities for this technology are endless – including air quality management, urban farming, carbon trading and much more.

MetaTag
Sales of counterfeit goods total $2.8 Trillion yearly, causing 100,000 deaths worldwide. MetaTag offers the next-generation anti-counterfeiting platform leveraging optical metasurfaces. Utilizing nanotechnology and the physics of metasurfaces, we have developed machine-readable security tags engineered on the nano-level rendering them nearly impossible to duplicate.

Mimicare
Mimicare aims to develop a system to assist physiotherapists, patients, and their Next-of-Kins (NOKs) with rehabilitation. From market research and interviews, we discovered that the lack of patient compliance is a common problem in rehabilitation. High treatment costs and the high workload of therapists also add to the problem facing therapists, patients, and NOKs in rehabilitation treatment.
As such, we aim to create a wearable foot pressure monitoring and comparison system to help in patient compliance, reduce treatment costs by reducing treatment frequency, and reduce therapists’ workload through patient progress tracking.

ezyMRI
ezyMRI provides a point-of-care MRI solution to the head and other extremities. It is compact, movable, and low-cost. We aim to decentralize MRI scans and offer MRI to under-resourced areas.

Puriogen
Puriogen is a size-based cell purification instrument developed explicitly for cell washing and isolation. It allows rapid sample processing (i.e., 1 ml sample within 5 mins), high-resolution cell sorting with size difference down to 0.5 m, low cell loss (i.e., < 5%) and up to 5 times cell concentration. In addition, size-based cell purification can produce uniform single-cell suspension and minimize cell clumping.
Puriogen is a benchtop and centrifuge-free cell sample preparation tools for all downstream analysis, such as flow cytometry, molecular detection and single-cell sequencing.

Silence Laboratories
Silence Laboratories is a young company based in Singapore founded by PhDs and alums from MIT, USA, SUTD, Singapore and IITs, India. We envision a world with effortless, intelligent and context-aware security. SL has designed unique, first-of-its-kind multi-modal multi-factor authentication frameworks to support ultra-fast and hassle-free authentication.
The framework has found niche use cases in seamless two-factor authentication for logins, verifications of passengers and riders in urban mobility and infrastructure access authentications. We aim to make smartphones a ubiquitous digital passport in the digital realm. No need to remember, type or store secrets- walk into the digital realm, and we will do the rest silently.

Spinoff Robotics
At Spinoff Robotics, we aim to optimize industrial operations through research-grade autonomous aerial robotics solutions. We specialize in configurable tethered aerial robots for more efficient high-altitude inspection and cleaning operations. Our unique tethered solution offerings allow hours of extended flight operation, fluid ejection, and a dedicated datalink for real-time defect detection and mapping. Combined with advanced autonomy, we are positioned to help enterprises automate repetitive manual processes across varied GPS-denied environments.

Perfusable Knit
The perfusable knit (PK) is a flexible and customizable knitted platform that can store, transfer, and release liquid materials contained inside. The liquid materials are part of the knitted structures and thus enable us to carry, use and release them in and with textiles. PK allows the fabrication of meter-scale multi-material perfusable textiles combining a varied array of yarns with elastomeric tubes using industrial knitting machines.
This technology will present a new avenue of “wearing liquid”. It will provide unprecedented opportunities in apparel, personal care, hygiene and logistics industries with textile-based materials integrated with advanced liquid-handling ability.

Tensile Ventures
Tensile Ventures is a start-up that develops aesthetically unique, free-spanning membrane structures. Leveraging research from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the company creates design tools and unique structures with digital simulation and design tools. We work with established partners to produce highly customizable shelters for events, recreation, and other applications using patent-pending Membrane Tensegrity Shell structures and in-house design-to-fabrication workflow.

SEAL
SEAL (Self-Evolving Adaptive Learning) offers Adaptive Learning as a Service (ALaaS) for personalised learning automation. We provide a complete set of APIs and development tools to support the adaptive learning backend for learning management systems.

Castomize
Castomize is a new med-tech startup that uses proprietary advanced manufacturing methods to create orthopaedic casts that are lighter, stronger, and more comfortable.

DISC
DISC is an elderly-friendly dual-language cognitive intervention program that leverage multi-modal touch screen technology to delay the onset of and slow down the cognitive decline in seniors. The grand vision of the intervention is to deliver a simple and user-friendly intervention tool that can eventually be broadly installed and utilized throughout Singapore elderly care settings to provide cognitive stimulations and to help alleviate caregiver’s burden.

Digital Gastronomy
Digital Gastronomy is committed to providing the best quality of food and service to improve the quality of life of our elderly community in Singapore. Digital Gastronomy seeks to heighten the dining experience for dysphasia patients in elderly homes and hospitals. Our 3-D food printing technology provides various delicious, nutritious and visually appealing meals, catering for patients’ dignity.

Tensile Ventures
Snap Robotics develops advanced multimodal soft end-effectors and grippers with broad grasping capabilities. Our designs can be tailored for various applications to enable the automation of challenging manipulation tasks without the need for specialized setups. With our multimodal capabilities, our systems can replace complex setups and eliminate tooling changeups.