Top 20 Life Science Startup Investors in Singapore (June 2026)

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• Thunes — Founded in 2016, Thunes is a global B2B payment infrastructure platform that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses – from gig economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia’s super-app Grab to global fintech leaders such as PayPal, Remitly, Finastra and Revolut. Through a single, simple connection, consumers andbusinesses can send payments to – and get paid in – every corner of the world. Thunes currently supports 80 currencies, enables payments to 132 countries and helps to accept 300 payment methods. In April 2022, Thunes acquired a controlling stake in a leading anti-money laundering and compliance platform company Tookitaki, which now enables the company’s advanced compliance, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering capabilities, setting an international benchmark for sustainable compliance. The company is headquartered in Singapore, with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Miami and Nairobi. Current investors include Visa, EDBI, Endeavor Catalyst, Marshall Wace, Bessemer Venture Partners, 01Fintech, Future Shape, Insight Partners, Checkout.com, Helios Investment Partners and GGV Capital. For more information, visit www.thunes.com
• VNLIFE — VNLIFE is a technology company that develops a digital ecosystem for the tourism, logistics, and commerce sector. It enables a full suite of digital products on their payment and service platforms for individual consumers. The company's mission statement is to become the enabler to startups in terms of technical expertise, business guidance,building networks, and capital so as to provide these startups unprecedented opportunity not only to grow their products and services in the domestic market but also to compete in the global arena.
• Sunbird Bio — Sunbird Bio, a biotech company, is developing protein-based diagnostic tests that empower diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, neurological disorders, and early-stage cancer.

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• Seed Therapeutics — SEED Therapeutics designs molecular glue degraders using the full E3 ligase universe to eliminate disease proteins across oncology and beyond.
• Casma Therapeutics — Casma Therapeutics is a developer of a natural cellular process of autophagy to open new target areas for drug discovery and development. The company focuses on autophagy system to improve the cellular process of clearing out unwanted proteins, organelles and invading pathogens as well as tries to arrest or reverse the progression of lysosomalstorage disorders, muscle disorders, inflammatory disorders and neurodegeneration, enabling physicians to address unmet medical needs.
• Lifenet Insurance Company — LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY offers a range of insurance underwriting and asset management solutions. Its insurance products include death, medical, and disability insurance. The company also provides health counselling services. LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY was founded in October 2006.

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• Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
• MDisrupt — MDisrupt is health industry expert platform for the digital health industry. We believe the most impactful health products should make it to market faster.
• Mach — Mach is the global leader in off-road autonomy, trusted by top OEMs for over a decade. We deliver proven full stack solutions, which include ruggedized hardware, scalable software, and advanced AI, across agriculture, land care, construction, mining, defense, and maritime.

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• Medipal — Medipal provides personal health for a health consultation. It provides subscription-based personal nurse service for patients.
• MangoBoost — Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a next-generation server accelerator designed to orchestrate various intra-server devices (e.g., CPU, GPU, SSD, NPU, NIC). By maximizing the datacenter’s overall performance and cost efficiency, DPU is now considered as the most important HW/SW solution to realize the next-generation extreme-scale AI serverinfrastructure. However, despite its critical necessity from the datacenter and AI infrastructure, there is no market-leading DPU solution which can meet the customer’s actual demand due to its HW/SW complexity and the application/model heterogeneity. MangoBoost is currently the world’s most highly recognized DPU startup located in US and Korea. We provide the world’s most advanced and flexible DPU HW/SW solutions in order to fully satisfy the needs of various customers. Our DPU HW is fully composable by integrating its rich set of DPU features to construct our customer-optimal DPUs. At the same time, our DPU SW enables to seamlessly deploy the solution to any customer environment. As a result, our DPU solutions are considered very promising to realize the next-generation AI/datacenter infrastructure, and thus they are currently evaluated at various global-leading companies. MangoBoost was founded in early 2022 to commercialize 7 year of top-tier DPU research outcomes achieved at Seoul National University (e.g., many full-system DPU prototypes, many ISCA/MICRO/ASPLOS/OSDI/ATC papers). The current team consists of 45+ system engineers including ~20 top-tier PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University, Seoul National University, POSTECH, U Toronto, and ~20 industry experts from Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and Naver.
• Twinny — Twinny specializes in the development of self-driving robots.

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• Drools — Discover Drools, the best dog food brand offering premium nutrition for your furry friend. Explore our range of healthy, vet-recommended dog food to keep your pet happy and healthy.
• Freshly — Our fully-prepared meals are delivered fresh and ready to eat. We can fuel your dietary preference: plant-based, gluten-free, low calorie, low carb, keto, paleo, and more.
• Hsu Fu Chi — Hsu Fu Chi is a confectionery company that manufactures various confectionaries, biscuits, chocolates, jellies, sachima, and snacks.

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• Earlens — Earlens is the world's first and only hearing aid solution to directly vibrate the eardrum, delivering a more complete sound than any other hearing aid.
• Cerevance — Cerevance is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to advance new medicines for serious neurological diseases.The company's therapeutics applies it's technology called NETSseq to reveal transcriptional and epigenetic differences between specific cell types in mature human brains, enabling healthcare providers to detect and tackle theearly onset of various neurological diseases.
• Claret Medical — Claret Medical, Inc. develops a series of cerebral vascular protection systems for transcatheter aortic valve implantation, surgical, and other interventional procedures. The company’s products include Claret Medical Montage, a dual filter system and percutaneously delivered embolic protection device to capture and remove debris disloged duringvascular procedures; and small (6F) catheters that are inserted into the patient's right arm to protect the patient’s brain during interventional procedures where embolic debris might be released. It offers its products for use as an embolic protection system to capture and remove embolic material (thrombus/debris) that may enter the cerebral vascular system during endovascular procedures. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Rosa, California.

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• Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
• MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
• The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.

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• ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
• AM Batteries — AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
• South 8 Technologies — South 8's LiGas cells are engineered to deliver unmatched performance and safety in the most demanding environments.

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• Abound — Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans. It aims to expand access to low-cost personal credit by using the UK’s new Open Banking standard to analyze consumers’ historical bank statement data. Open Banking data allows us to build a granular view of customers’ financial circumstances, properlyunderstand their affordability, and place less reliance on credit reference agency scores.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
• Taranis — Taranis offers cutting-edge crop & farm management software for precision agriculture. Increase efficiency and yield. Learn more now.
• Validus — Validus Group is the largest SME lending platform in South East Asia, operating in several countries across the region.

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• Kneader — Kneader is a job search platform that offers staffing and recruiting services.
• Quantum AI — Quantum AI is an AI data company that offers offline and online data collection and analysis services.
• Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.

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• Mustbio — MustBio is a biotechnology company that leverages multi-antibody technology to develop therapeutics primarily in the field of immuno-oncology. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
• Cenyx Biotech — Cenyx Biotech develops diagnostic and therapeutic nano-compounds formed based on nanozymes and nanoparticles.
• BOS Semiconductors — Driving the Future of Automotive, BOS Semiconductors

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• Feldan Therapeutics — Feldan Therapeutics has developed a patented peptide-based technology platform, the Feldan Shuttle, which enables fast and safe intracellular delivery. The company's mission is to develop leading-edge therapeutic applications based on its proprietary platform, as demonstrated by its current pipeline of clinical programs taking advantage of theunique characteristics of the Shuttle.
• Nkarta Therapeutics — Nkarta seeks to improve upon the efficacy of cell therapy, making it more potent, better tolerated and more rapidly available to a broad population of patients with a variety of hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.While T-cell therapy, often known as CAR-T, has proven successful in certain cancer indications, its promise has been limited toa few hematologic malignancies and the side effects can be severe. Natural Killer cells are the immune system’s first responders against diseases and pathogens. Unlike T cells, they have an inherent ability to target tumor cells without genetic alteration, and therefore hold significant promise in the development of potent therapies that can be used more readily for diverse tumor types. Nkarta’s differentiated cell therapy approach is designed to boost and enhance the inherent power of Natural Killer cells to target and destroy tumor cells, while also offering a better tolerated safety profile.
• Mindset Medical — Mindset Medical is a Health Care Company that develops a platform for clinical information. Through their platform physicians will understand patient pain, saves time for providers and patients, they eliminate paper and redundant forms, and allows providers more time for patients. Mindset Medical was founded in 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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• ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
• Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
• Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.

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• Biorithm — Biorithm is a company that creates obstetrics remote monitoring platforms and point-of-care devices for pregnant and postnatal patients. The company combines proprietary data analytics software and medical-grade wearables to monitor a wide range of pregnancy vital data such as fetal heart rate, uterine contractions, and maternal heart rate,allowing clinicians to gain new insights into the health of the mother and baby while also providing expecting mothers with better access to healthcare, convenience, and more information about their pregnancy to identify early signs of complications.
• Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
• XSQUARE Technologies — XSQUARE sets out to optimise and reshape the warehousing scene by developing a suite of proprietary AGVs and best-in-breed warehouse automation solutions.

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• Hyper Lounge — Hyperlounge is a startup that has developed a monthly subscription management analysis SaaS by combining management consulting know-how with data collection, analysis and visualization technology. It is a specialized system for small and medium-sized business executives, which is completely different from existing data analysis tools or services.When using this service, user can easily check the core data and analysis necessary for business management every day on mobile without the burden of initial investment or recruitment.
• Klinik Pintar — Klinik Pintar membantu pasien mendapatkan layanan kesehatan primer terbaik di klinik, rumah, dan kantor.
• KYAN Therapeutics — KYAN Therapeutics is a clinical-stage artificial intelligence company leveraging its proprietary technology platforms to transform the way patients are treated and therapies are developed. KYAN is able to revolutionize the drug development and dosage optimization processes and has multiple pipeline combination therapies in development for oncologyand infectious diseases. KYAN de-risks and dramatically accelerates the drug development process, identifying novel combination therapies with unprecedented efficacy and safety. KYAN's clinically-validated platforms are uniquely disease-mechanism and indication agnostic.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• Waymo — Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California.
• Glympse Bio — Glympse Bio is developing a powerful new paradigm in diagnostics to enable noninvasive and predictive monitoring of multiple human diseases. The company’s technology uses precisely engineered diagnostic agents that interrogate the body for certain disease states, and then carry the message to the urine for analysis. Glympse Bio’s platformtechnology was originally developed at MIT, and is founded by a team of world-renowned experts in nanomedicine and biomedical engineering.
• LeapFrog Investments — Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.

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• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Wavebridge — Wavebridge is a top institutional digital asset company with traditional financial knowhows and crypto finance technology. The company was established in November 2018 to provide a comprehensive suite of investment solutions utilizing its data processing and AI technology.
• BlockOdyssey — BlockOdyssey is a tech start-up that provides 'blockchain-based B2B solutions'.Currently, the main solution is supplying 'blockchain-based anti-counterfeiting solution', and logistics & distribution history management is in progress with blockchain. It has received investment from Asia's largest cosmetic company, andis conducting business with French pharmaceutical companies.

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• Igloo — As a top insurtech company, Igloo makes insurance easy across Southeast Asia by working with reputable insurers and distribution partners.
• Octopus — Integrated Reseller System Fully Automated
• Kumu Holdings — kumu is a pinoy community platform where you can just hang out, explore the many livestreams the Kumunity has to offer, meet and chat with fellow Filipinos all around the world

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• DotBio — DotBio is a biopharmaceutical company specialized in next-generation domain antibody therapies.
• Coastar Therapeutics — Coastar Therapeutics develops an erythrocyte enveloped virus delivery technology platform to perform repeated virus dosing. It evades recognition and attack by the immune system to address the challenges of systemic and repeated administration of drug therapies. Coastar's process technology and “red blood cell membranes only” enable thecompany to overcome the challenges of mass production and standardization, and has cost advantages. The company's first product targets oncolytic viruses and is developing ELCV solutions for other therapies.The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Diego, CAlifornia.
• Leadinno Medical Valley — Leadino Medical Valley is a producer of medical devices for neuroregulatory functions.