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www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibiGPU cloudcompute/startup-sg-techJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- Competitive grant for deep-tech commercialisation with a POC cap of SGD 400,000 and a POV cap of SGD 800,000, both raised on 2 January 2025 from SGD 250,000 and SGD 500,000.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D activities ... in...
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Competitive grant for deep-tech commercialisation with a POC cap of SGD 400,000 and a POV cap of SGD 800,000, both raised on 2 January 2025 from SGD 250,000 and SGD 500,000. The grant carries an equity component: Enterprise Singapore holds the right to subscribe to shares, and paid-up capital of 10 percent of the POC grant or 20 percent of the POV grant must be shown before award. unit none; metered on wall-clock; grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D activities ... in Singapore', so a foreign founder with no Singaporean shareholder fails the ownership test before the project is read. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The 30 percent local-ownership rule is what makes this hard to compose: a foreign founder must bring a Singaporean or PR shareholder holding a third of the company before the SGD 800,000 becomes visible, which is a different cost from the capital contribution the grant asks for. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Three gates were considered. (a) Singapore incorporation: confirmed, but it is the cheapest of the three and a foreigner can incorporate a Pte Ltd without a resident director only by appointing a nominee. (b) Local shareholding of 30 percent: confirmed, and this is the binding one, because it is an ownership test rather than a registration step. (c) A paid-up capital requirement: confirmed at 10 or 20 percent of the grant, which for the POV cap is SGD 160,000 that must exist before award, so the grant is really a matching instrument. The 'artificial intelligence (e.g. deep learning)' line under Information & Communications Technologies is the only sub-area that names AI directly, so a project must be framed inside one of the five listed areas to qualify at all. |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi | 'The grant cap for POC will remain at SGD400,000'; 'the grant cap for POC projects has been raised from the previous cap of SGD250,000 to SGD400,000', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi | 'The grant cap for POV will remain at SGD800,000'; raised 'from the previous cap of SGD500,000', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi | 'Company has at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s), determined by the ultimate individual ownership', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi | 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years at time of grant application'; 'Core R&D activities to be carried out in Singapore'; 'Company is not a subsidiary of a corporate entity at point of incorporation', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi | 'startups will be required to demonstrate existing paid-up capital equivalent to at least 10% of the POC grant' and '20% of the POV grant', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech | 'the grant will also carry an equity component where Enterprise Singapore will have the rights to exercise a share subscription', quoted, page last updated 2025-09-18 |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "government-grant","free_tier_kind": "grant","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field