FirstMeta

Financial Service Provider for Virtual Economies

The first to provide a full suite of real financial services for virtual economies like Second Life®, First Meta™ is at the forefront of financial services development for virtual worlds, creating link-ups between virtual economies, and integrating real and virtual economies. The company was founded in 2007 by Douglas Abrams and Aileen Sim (NCBV Jan 2005). It launched the MetaCard™, the first virtual-currency-denominated credit card on 31 July 2007.

Cosplay Garden Pte Ltd

Online Retail Cosplay Apparel and Accessories

Cosplay Garden Pte Ltd was founded by Lee Xiang Ling (NCSH Jul 2005) in June 2006, and is a major global exporter of Cosplay fashion to North America and Asia. The company has affiliates based in Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. Providing one-stop services for design, styling and production of customized costumes, wigs, props, jewellery and accessories, it has been recognized as the Top Ebay Powerseller (Gold and above) since 2007.

ZopIM LLP

Sales conversion Instant Messaging Platform

ZopIM seeks to create the best sales conversion instant-messaging (IM) platform in the live-chat industry. It provides useful and reliable live-chat software to clients, who are then able to engage in conversations with website visitors, to keep track of site visits in real time, and to analyse the browsing patterns of visitors.

ZopIM was formed by Royston Tay (NCSV Jul 2005), Julian Low Junliang (NCSV Jan 2006), Kwok Yang Bin (NCSV Jan 2006) and Wu Wenxiang (NCSV Jan 2006), largely as a result of a wager with Tim Draper from DFJ Ventures, who challenged the team to show him a prototype of the idea within two months. The team rose to the challenge with the thought that it was a joke, only to realize otherwise when a presentation date was scheduled by Draper’s Personal Assistant. Two months of sleepless days and nights later, Julian Low, the CEO, presented the product to Draper in his Sand Hill office over a teleconference with all relevant parties involved, thus began the story of ZopIM.

The Neat Company (Asia)

Solutions that help you manage paper better

The Neat Company (Asia) was established in May 2007 by Sarabjit Singh (NCBV Jan 2005) and two other partners - Mani Bhat and Khasali. The company develops software tools to intelligently ‘read’ scanned documents (receipts, business cards, invoices, forms etc.). Packaged together with their scanners, this technology helps individuals and organizations automate the process of manual entry, thus lowering costs and increasing efficiency.

The Neat Company (Asia) is releasing its first consumer product in Singapore in October 2008 - NeatScan To Office. It is a portable scanner that can intelligently scan documents directly into Microsoft Office applications, making it much easier than traditional scanners to move data from paper to the computer.

Progeniq

Solutions to intensive data processing tasks

Founded in March 2005 by Darran Nathan (affiliate of NOC) and Kelvin Lim, and partnered by Chua Teck Hiong (NCBV Jan 2003), Progeniq develops hardware accelerators to solve intensive data processing tasks on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, providing multiple-fold speedups at affordable cost-performance prices.

The birth of Progeniq was a result of the team’s understanding of the fast growth of Bioinformatics genebank, the knowledge that CPU speeds were hitting a bottleneck and the increasing density of field programmable gate arrays beyond prototyping usage. Progeniq launched its first product, the BioBoost in 2007.

3S-Comaea Pte Ltd

Web-based tool for strategic and operative human resource competence

3S-Comaea Pte Ltd was first established in Stockholm in 2002 by CEO Per Palmér. Five years on, Mr Palmér had his sights set on Asia and in January 2008, 3S-Comaea Singapore was borne. 3S-Comaea is a technology start-up that offers a powerful web-based, on-demand tool for strategic and operative human resource competence.

As a participating company in NUS College in Stockholm, Mr Palmér recruited Liu Tianyao (NCST Jan 2006) to head the Asian office in research and development, as well as to assist with daily operations and execution. Six months later, Edwin Koh (NCST Jan 2007) was recruited into the Asian team to focus on marketing, sales and support. The scope for the Singapore operations will be: advanced R&D, international sales coordination, and regional sales and delivery.

3S-Comaea Stockholm posted a 20 million Swedish kronor (S$4.5 million) turnover in the 2007 fiscal year, and has a portfolio of international clients such as Volvo and KPMG.

Techsailor Group Pte Ltd

Driving Web Business - Web applications, Web design, Search Engine Optimization, SMS Services

Techsailor focuses on providing development and solutions for enterprise social networks. Techsailor was formed in 2005 by Rex Huang (NCBV Jan 2006) and Yu Junde who shared a common vision of being a web solutions provider. The company took a new turn in mid-2007 when Wayne Chia (NCBV Jan 2006), Leon (C.K) Leong (NCSV Jan 2005), Cheng Shun Ling and Nguyen Khanh An joined the management team and began focusing on building social networks for corporates. Techsailor is now based in Guangzhou and Singapore.

Printeet

Online Photo Finishing

The idea for Printeet flourished in 2006 and was founded by Dionis Chua (formerly known as Cai Jiahui, NCBV 4) in 2007. Printeet is an online personal publishing service that helps people get creative about capturing and sharing their memories from the comforts of their homes. It enables photos to be printed the conventional way or on gifts such as mugs, badges and t-shirts. Printeet emphasizes high quality printing because it understands its importance to customers.
Dionis loved to print photos and make photo gifts online when she was in the USA. She realised the lack of such services in Singapore, especially on one occasion when her father (who is in the photo-copying and photo-printing machine business) could not find an online photo-printing service for his needs. Having access to the machines required, the father-daughter pair decided to bridge this gap, and a new wing from the trading company was spun off to form Printeet.

PointStar Pte Ltd

Guiding Your Way Into The Interactive World

PointStar is a fast-growing Internet services company with a presence in Singapore and Jakarta. Founded in 2007, the company helps companies develop a compelling presence online. With 12 full-time employees across our offices, The PointStar team has deep experience in consumer technology marketing and is well placed to assist companies in executing customized market penetration campaigns with incisive results to match.

SkinWeaver

High quality laptop skins, keypad skins, and LCD skins

SkinWeaver, founded by Olivia Soesanto (NCSV Jan 2002) and her partner in 2007, is an online store offering various types of laptop skins, keypad skins and LCD skins. Retailing directly to local and international consumers, SkinWeaver also provides customization services to wholesale customers and corporations. Laptop skins are emerging as an innovative branding platform for individuals and companies alike. With its growing number of happy customers locally and overseas, SkinWeaver is surely changing the world, one laptop at a time.

HomeSpace

The smarter way to find homes for sale

HomeSpace is a map based real estate search engine that helps you to find and list real estate such as HDBs, Condos and landed property for sale in Singapore in the simplest and fastest way possible. Founded by Vinod (NCSV Jul 2005) and Jarrold (NCSV Jul 2004), HomeSpace is catered specially to prospective home buyers and home sellers (home owners and real estate agents).

HomeSpace was born because of the lack of a good real estate search engine in Singapore. By providing users with pro consumer tools and service, HomeSpace aims to be THE real estate search engine for Singapore