NUS to help launch tech-based start-ups

It'll spend $25m over five years; work will involve latest tech like machine learning

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Jolene Ang
Updated
Sep 10, 2018, 06:55 AM
Published
Sep 10, 2018, 05:00 AM
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Last Tuesday, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced its plans to seed, incubate and launch up to 250 tech-based start-ups.

This will be done through the NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (Grip). Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research staff will establish and run the start-ups.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 10, 2018, with the headline NUS to help launch tech-based start-ups. Subscribe

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