Sponsored Accelerator
Microsoft AI Accelerate
26 ventures in the 2025 cohort, 150 more routed to grant funding.
Partnerships
Turn NUS research into your advantage.
Join global leaders across industries. Work with NUS research, startups, and talent to move from a business challenge to a deployable result.
Why partner with NUSX
Work with the best of NUS labs, IP, startups, and talent. With one partnership.
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Access across NUS
Work directly with NUS labs, IP, startups, and student talent under one partnership,
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Real, structured work
Engagements run as year‑round projects with clear milestones and a named owner on each side.
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One office, one journey
A single team finds the right lab, programme, or startup across NUS and remains your point of contact throughout.
Partnership models
Different goals need different partnerships.
01 / Innovation Partner
For corporates that want to build alongside NUS startups instead of watching from outside. Embed your team in the founder community, run challenges against your real problems, and see venture-stage solutions before the market does.
Explore more02 / ITI Partner
Proven science doesn't have to start in your own lab. License NUS technology or take equity in the startups built on it, and bring IP-protected research straight into your pipeline.
Explore more03 / Ecosystem Partner
For corporates putting down long-term roots in Singapore. Get standing access to NUS research, talent, and founders, and a co-creation track that turns that access into ventures built around your goals.
Contact us → What you get
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Ecosystem access
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Talent pipeline view
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Co-creation opportunities
04 / Corporate Gifting
Philanthropic giving in support of NUS innovation and entrepreneurship. Handled directly by the partnerships team.
Talk to the team about gifting → What it supports
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Research funds, scholarships, and lab resources
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Naming, recognition, and donor events
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Annual impact reporting
Case studies
See the impact of our previous partnerships
Sponsored Challenge
Boeing BUILD Singapore
Nearly 100 applications, three teams funded.
Sponsored Accelerator
DeepSAGE
S$1.5M to three ventures at the first Demo Day.
Access
Build
Deploy
Proof
Understand how partnerships
look in practice.
Sponsored accelerator · 2025–present
Microsoft AI Accelerate
- Challenge
- Microsoft wanted Southeast Asian AI ventures building on Azure and selling at scale. Enterprise Singapore wanted grant money reaching the strongest of them faster.
- What NUSX brought
- Cohort sourcing, programme operations, mentor and investor network, and B71 physical infrastructure across major Asian hubs.
- Structure
- 10-week sprint closing at Investor Day. Microsoft runs technical build and go-to-market. A joint panel with Enterprise Singapore, venture capital and industry selects the cohort, and that selection is the grant route.
- Outcome
- 26 ventures in the 2025 cohort, including Addlly AI. Up to 150 AI startups routed to the Startup SG Tech grant over three years.
Sponsored Accelerator · 2025-Present
Deep SAGE
- Challenge
- TIS Inc. wanted deep tech deal flow outside Japan and a way to act on it. Their read on the sector: the constraint is execution, not technology.
- What NUSX brought
- Global cohort sourcing, programme operations, a mentor and fractional executive bench, and B71 Singapore as the incubation site inside an 11-city network.
- Structure
- Six-month accelerator toward pre-Series A. Fractional executives embedded in founding teams for 12 weeks, executing rather than advising. Joint judging panel with TIS Ventures.
- Outcome
- First cohort of 10 ventures from Asia, Europe and Latin America. S$1.5M to Logice, Sembuh AI and StratifiCare at the inaugural Demo Day. S$7.6M committed by TIS over three years.
SPONSORED PROGRAMME · 2026–PRESENT
Boeing BUILD Singapore
- Challenge
- Eight of the ten fastest-growing air travel markets over the next two decades sit in India, China and Southeast Asia. Boeing had no university partner in the region delivering BUILD.
- What NUSX brought
- Applicant pipeline across students, graduates, alumni and early-stage founders. Programme operations, mentors, judging network, and three months of incubation at B71 Singapore.
- Structure
- One-week bootcamp at Boeing's Training Campus, Singapore. Teams stress-test users, operational requirements, systems integration and route to scale with Boeing specialists. Demo Day pitch to a panel from Boeing, Singapore Airlines and Panther Capital.
- Outcome
- Nearly 100 applications, 10 finalists, three funded teams. Maleo, COOLAH and Urbanflow each took US$10,000 and three months at B71 Singapore, with Boeing and NUSX backing the pilots that follow.
Previous partnerships include
Campus visit
The work is more convincing in person.
Slide 2
Spend a day inside NUSX. Walk through BLOCK71, sit in on a demo day, and meet the founders and researchers turning lab work into companies. It is the fastest way to tell whether a partnership fits, before you commit to one.
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FAQ
Common questions
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[1] What's the difference between the four partnership tiers?
They sort by what you came for. Innovation Partner embeds your team with NUS startups. TTI Partner licenses NUS technology or takes equity in the spin-offs built on it. Ecosystem Partner gives you standing access across NUS for the long term. Corporate Gifting backs the research and founders directly.
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[2] How long does a typical partnership last?
Partnerships run as year-round commitments, not one-off projects. Embedding and long-term access typically run multi-year, while a single licence or a one-off challenge can be shorter. The team scopes the term with you up front.
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[3] Who do I contact to get started?
One team handles every partnership, whatever the tier. Tell them the problem you are trying to solve and they will point you to the right starting point.
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[4] Is there a cost? How is a partnership resourced?
It depends on the tier and the scope. Some partnerships are membership-based, some are funded per project or per licence, and gifting is philanthropic. The team works out the model with you once they know what you are after.
Bring us a challenge. We'll find the path.
You don't need to know which partnership you want. Tell us what you're trying to solve, and we’ll point you to the lab, programme, or startup that fits.