Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is the national voice for the Singapore startup ecosystem, and a key trade association for startups.
ACE constantly seeks to build a dynamic and sustainable startup ecosystem in Singapore, focusing on five key pillars: Startups, Corporations, Institutes of Higher Learning, Risk Capital, and the Public Sector.
ACE was established in 2003 by the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), and re-launched as a private sector-led, non-profit organisation in 2014. ACE’s Patron is Dr Tan See Leng, Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry.
Working closely with the Government and local startups, ACE aims to promote entrepreneurship, catalyse new growth opportunities, scale startups, and build local champion enterprises.
For more information, please visit https://www.ace.org.sg or https://linktr.ee/aceorgsg.
A*StartCentral (A*SC) is a first-of-its-kind open innovation platform by the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). We aim to incubate and accelerate the growth of deep-tech startups, and serves to bolster the startup ecosystem, including areas such Medtech and Lifesciences. A*SC builds upon the foundation of an open innovation community to foster cross-pollination and interaction amongst researchers, corporates, startups, investors and entrepreneurs across diverse disciplines.
With a focus on people and innovation, A*SC supports budding researcher-entrepreneurs through their journey. To inspire a culture of innovation A*SC runs programmes and provides services that are carefully planned alongside our open innovation community building. A*SC also provides various facilities and equipment to members, including wet labs and prototyping space.
Since its launch in Sep 2016, A*StartCentral continues to attract researchers, A*STAR spinoffs, Singapore based startups, licensees and promising companies which have emerged across the globe.
A*SC will continue to inspire, innovate with, and empower researcher-entrepreneurs in building successful, deep technology enabled ventures.