{"id":3380,"date":"2021-11-15T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/?post_type=nus-news&p=3380"},"modified":"2022-12-27T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T03:43:11","slug":"undergrad-project-turned-spin-off-beex-receives-defence-investment-funding-for-underwater-autonomous-tech","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/news\/undergrad-project-turned-spin-off-beex-receives-defence-investment-funding-for-underwater-autonomous-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrad project turned spin-off BeeX receives defence investment funding for underwater autonomous tech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Underwater autonomous systems startup BeeX was co-founded by (far left) Goh Eng Wei and (centre) Grace Chia, who worked on the early iteration of the technology together as undergraduates. Image credit: BeeX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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NUS engineering undergraduate project turned spin-off company, BeeX, has clinched a seven-figure seed funding from Cap Vista, the strategic investment arm of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). Congrats!<\/p>\n

BeeX, an underwater autonomous systems startup, was founded by NUS mechanical engineering alumna Ms Grace Chia, and computer engineering alumnus Mr Goh Eng Wei. Their R&D in underwater self-driving technology aims to minimise the need for human involvement in performing large-scale underwater operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read more at The Business Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NUS engineering undergraduate project turned spin-off company, BeeX, has clinched a seven-figure seed funding from Cap Vista, the strategic investment arm of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). Congrats! BeeX, an underwater autonomous systems startup, was founded by NUS mechanical engineering alumna Ms Grace Chia, and computer engineering alumnus Mr Goh Eng Wei. Their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3381,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[39,42,45],"class_list":["post-3380","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-all-me","news_category-alumni","news_category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14138,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3380\/revisions\/14138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}