# National Research Foundation

> National Research Foundation is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-research-foundation-singapore/?originalSubdomain=sg
- Website: http://www.nrf.gov.sg
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/research.gov.sg

National Research Foundation is a VC fund in Singapore focused on Information Technology and Mobile. National Research Foundation (NRF) seeks to strengthen Singapore’s R&D capabilities, encourage greater innovation and nurture the growth of technology-based enterprises in Singapore. This will help Singapore to remain competitive and create high value jobs and prosperity for Singaporeans.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for National Research Foundation. Shizune tracks 10 team members at National Research Foundation. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/national-research-foundation?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $240k–$3M |
| Grant | $369k–$204M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 38% |
| Mobile | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Grant | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 7 | 88% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ow Foong Pheng | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ow-foong-pheng |
| Choo Chiau Beng | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/choo-chiau-beng |
| Gan Kim Yong | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gan-kim-yong |
| Leo Yip | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-yip |
| Lim Chuan Poh | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lim-chuan-poh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore | NSCC is managed Singapore’s first national petascale facility with available high performance computing (HPC) resources to support science. | $204.4M | Grant | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| WaveScan | WaveScan Technologies is a non-destructive testing (NDT) equipment and solutions spin-off company from the A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), aiming to disrupt the inspection and NDT market by developing smart sensor systems that monitor, diagnose, and report anomalies in real time. Our proprietary IoT-based portable microwave& millimeter-wave sensors scan and extract relevant information from the defect patterns at the target sites, evaluate the condition using cloud-based AI algorithms, and notify their 'health.'​ This smart maintenance solution is well-integrable with unmanned autonomous robotic systems, allowing remote inspection at difficult-to-access locations. Together, by fusion of the sensor, IoT, AI, and robotic technologies, we envision a predictive and proactive ecosystem, which minimizes downtimes and increases productivity and efficiency. | $369.3K | Grant | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Squareroot8 Technologies | SQRT8 is a photonics company that develops devices which enable Quantum Communication applications. | $3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| CatchThatBus | Catch That Bus is an online travel agent (OTA) that specialises in bus-related travel in SE Asia. CatchThatBus provides consumers with the ability to browse options and to purchase tickets from a range of trusted operators to over 500 destinations in Malaysia and Singapore. |  |  | May 27, 2014 |  |
| GNosis Analytics | The higher meaning of GNosis is knowledge from experience. The word GNosis does not refer to knowledge that we are told to believe in. GNosis is concious, experential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief or theory.Our mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into Fact-Based Enterprises. Ourtasks and work is to make Big Data simple for enterprises to use, make it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time. With our IP "The Big Box", we make it easy to transform your complex data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) into hard facts. At GNosis, we hide the complexities associated with Big Data so that the enterprise can capitalize on all of the data at their disposal - regardless of type or source (structured or unstructured). We make it easy for end users to query their Data by asking deeper questions and correlating behavior and actions across multiple domains of data (no matter if it's click-streams, mobile apps, social networks, sensors or internal databases) so they can make fact-based decisions, faster. | $589K | Seed | Apr 16, 2014 |  |
| Snyppit | Snyppit is a mobile video self expression and sharing platform that makes it easy for people to create fun, emotive videos and share with friends. Snyppit is the only video application that lets you personalize and decorate your short videos with stickers, frames, borders and chat bubbles. | $521K | Seed | Jun 26, 2013 |  |
| LoveByte | LoveByte is a mobile app that provides a private space for two to communicate, share things and remember precious moments. | $240K | Seed | Nov 06, 2012 |  |
| Graymatics | Graymatics provide a richly featured Platform as a Service, which is capable of organizing rich media data, based on true content, over the internet, networked video systems & proprietary media sources, optimized for very high scale. | $1.8M | Series A | Nov 30, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does National Research Foundation invest in?

National Research Foundation invests primarily in Information Technology, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is National Research Foundation's check size?

National Research Foundation typically joins rounds of $240k–$3M at Seed and $369k–$204M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds National Research Foundation participates in.

### How do I contact National Research Foundation?

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### Who are the partners at National Research Foundation?

The team at National Research Foundation includes Ow Foong Pheng (Director), Choo Chiau Beng (Director) and Gan Kim Yong (Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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