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Pre-accelerator Final Year Project
Supporting student startups, empowering innovations

Ideas to Startup module is offered to iDP final year undergraduate students. This module builds upon the principles of the Lean Launchpad and the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework to accelerate students’ understanding of the entrepreneurial process and enables further development of their ideas/projects into viable and sustainable ventures. In the process, students will learn to identify the customer and market, develop a minimum viable product (MVP) using design and engineering skills that they have garnered throughout their undergraduate study and design a viable business model. Students will also learn the mechanics of company building, for example company formation, fund raising and IP strategy.

External investors, startup founders, mentors and lawyers are invited to the class to enable students to learn from their experience and feedback first-hand. At the end of the two semesters, the students are ready to deliver an investment pitch on demo day to potential investors (see the video below).

Here is a glimpse of the classes.

Demo Day – 14 April 2020

6 student startup teams have successfully delivered their investment pitch and showcased the MVP on the Demo Day held on Zoom.

AY2019/2020 Virtual Class Photo (taken during Demo Day)

Click here for 2019 Project Pitching and Showcase

If you are interested, feel free to get in touch with Ideas to Startup module coordinate, Dr Khoo Eng Tat