Investing in the convergence of design, hardware & software Operating at the intersection of ideas, talent & capital BUILDING A BETTER PLATFORM FOR DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS & ENTREPRENEURS TO GET TOGETHER, BE INSPIRED, MAKE THINGS AND START/GROW COMPANIES. Corporate Profile 12 August 2014
Corporate profile of the Silicon Straits group, an innovation tribe in Asia Pacific that is building a better platform for designers, engineers & entrepreneurs to get together, be inspired, make things and start or grow companies.
Silicon Straits has offices in Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon, and oversees investments in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Investing in the convergence of design, hardware & software Operating at the intersection of ideas, talent & capital
BUILDING A BETTER PLATFORM FOR DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS & ENTREPRENEURS
TO GET TOGETHER, BE INSPIRED, MAKE THINGS AND START/GROW COMPANIES.
Corporate Profile
12 August 2014
Venture Capital, Incubation & Advisory
Product Development Foundry
Community & Business Support Services
UI/UX, Ruby, iOS, Android
We incubate, invest & advise early-stage
startups.
We build web & mobile products for ourselves and others.
We provide community & business support services for individuals &
businesses for profit & non-profit.
US$5M seed fund; 24 investments across US & Asia Pacific (circa
2010)
NRF TIS incubator; S$50K-100K investment
matched by S$250-500K at 1:5 ratio
The Silicon Straits Group :: dynamic pieces, loosely joined
Product Development Foundry :: building web and mobile
products for individuals & companies
32-pax team in 4,000 sq ft 2-floor office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Design, UI/UX, Ruby-on-Rails, iOS & Android + internal “lab” projects (products)
Time-materials basis, $250 per pax per man-day
147 Ton Dat Tien Street, Phu My Hung, Ho Chi Minh City agile web & mobile product dev open concept
1st floor - Events, F&B, Co-working
2nd floor - Office
Stuff built by us: www.geeky.vn HTML 5 version of Silicon Straits mobile appiPad app of Silicon Straits Saigon’s mobile portfolio
2B. Product Development Foundry ACRA UEN No. 201005970E
• Research commercialization collaboration with MIT-SMART, deployable architecture for big data analytics & predictive patrol route recommendation engine for taxis in Singapore.
• 1 PM, 1 UI/UX, 3 Web Dev on time-materials basis, evolving project scope.
• MVP was delivered to client on-time in agile manner via RoR in under 2 months.
• Proof of team’s ability to handle R&D commercialization and big data system architecture in a startup-friendly way.
Afian Anwar CSAIL, MIT-SMARTwww.taxisg.io
2B. Product Development Foundry ACRA UEN No. 201005970E
• Startup product MVP, inspired by Vine with initial release in Indonesia after just 2 months.
• UI/UX, iOS and Android development to achieve consistent user experience on iPhone and Android (down to version 2.3); non-trivial
• Validation of team’s mobile UI/UX and technical expertise.
Carl Wong
2B. Product Development Foundry ACRA UEN No. 201005970E
We can build & deliver :: sample project #4
• One-off project with Japanese-based design agency.
• Mobile (iOS) app development.
• 1 iOS Dev, 1 Back-end Dev.
• Proof of team’s ability to manage complex inter-team communications despite working with design partner of ASICS, and not directly with product owner.
Paul Baron, Partner, AQ
2B. Product Development Foundry ACRA UEN No. 201005970E