IncyTech
From vision to innovation - building the voice-first AI infrastructure layer for industries that don't get to keep both hands on the keyboard.
Visit www.incy.sg↗Winner of the IMPACT Track, 2024
IncyTech took home the top prize at CDE Innovation Day 2024's IMPACT Track - the track reserved for research-grade ventures with translatable IP and a real shot at the market.
The win didn't just hand them a trophy. It put them in the room with the kind of partners early-stage deep-tech teams rarely meet for years - CapVista expressed interest, DSTA initiated a pilot deployment, and a seed round began to close in the months that followed.
London. Cambridge. Singapore
Within a year of winning Innovation Day, IncyTech became Winner of the London / UK CleanTech Challenge and was named Runner-up of the MIT Climate & Energy Prize - placing them in the same conversation as the most ambitious deep-tech ventures coming out of MIT, Imperial, and Oxford.
That recognition outside Singapore mattered. It turned what could have been a regional story into an internationally credible one, and made every subsequent investor conversation start ten steps closer to yes.
From lab to live pilots
CapVista expressed interest in the technology and brought defence stakeholders into early conversations. A DSTA pilot deployment followed, validating IncyTech's core thesis in an operational environment where the cost of getting things wrong is high.
What CDE's ecosystem provided wasn't just funding - it was a sequence of doors. The Innovation Day stage opened one. Mentors opened the next. Each pilot opened the one after that.
Closing the round. Scaling the platform
IncyTech is now incorporated and in the final stages of closing a seed round to scale the platform across enterprise and defence customers in the region.
The throughline back to CDE Innovation Day is clear: a single day on the NUS calendar that converted a research project into a startup with global awards, government pilots, and a closing seed round. That's what the IMPACT track is built to produce.
