Meet 9 Singapore students with promising business ventures

Their ventures all aim to empower people through education and technology.

Singaporean students are showing that young people can balance academics and personal life whilst launching businesses to solve everyday challenges.

Singapore Business Review spotlights nine student entrepreneurs from top schools like SMU, SJI International, Milton Academy, and SUTD who are using education and technology to drive their ventures forward.

Tenor James Reilly and Ian Cheng
SJI International
Startup: Augment Education

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When they were 16 and 17, Tenor Reilly and Ian Cheng founded Augment Education to revolutionise learning. Their mission? To democratise education and enhance accessibility. Recognising the challenges faced by IB students—limited quality resources, tedious marking processes, and inconsistent revision tools—they developed an innovative solution to address them. Augment Education, an AI-powered platform, offers personalised, dynamic learning experiences to over 1,000 students across Southeast Asia. Utilising advanced deep-learning algorithms, it generates unlimited IB-style questions tailored to the IB syllabus, providing precise feedback and real-time performance insights. With spaced repetition algorithms and subject proficiency tracking, Augment Education optimises the learning process, empowering students to take charge of their educational journey.

Hugo Eechaute
UWC Dover, later Milton Academy (Currently serving National Service)
Startup: StockSense

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Hugo Eechaute, founder and CEO of StockSense, is on a mission to tackle income inequality through financial literacy. Growing up in Singapore, Hugo was inspired by the gap in financial education and sought to make it accessible to all. Whilst attending boarding school Milton Academy in Massachusetts, he launched StockSense, a youth-led platform designed to teach students financial concepts through interactive tools like games and a virtual wallet. With over 10,000 users, StockSense advocates for integrating financial literacy into school curricula worldwide. Now serving in the Singapore Armed Forces, Hugo continues to champion the importance of financial education for future generations.

Lwin Maung Maung Thaw, Kumaraguru Sanmugam, Johnny Lin
Singapore Management University
Startup: Osiris

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Lwin, a second-year Information Systems student at SMU, teamed up with classmates Kumaraguru Sanmugam and Johnny Lin to co-found Osiris, a cloud-based IoT platform aimed at transforming urban farming. Incubated in SMU’s BIG program in January 2024, Osiris leverages AI for disease prediction and pest detection, helping urban farmers maximise yields and reduce waste, promoting sustainability and efficiency in modern agriculture.

Dominic Yuan
Singapore Management University
Startup: Parka

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Dominic, a final-year Business Management student at SMU, combined his passion for music and entrepreneurship to found Parka, a hybrid music company supporting Asian indie pop artists. Drawing on his diploma in music production, Dominic aims to nurture talent and expand their global reach. Inspired by 88 Rising, Parka promotes artists from Singapore and Malaysia, gaining traction as part of SMU’s Business Innovations Generator.

Lim Han Yang and Htet Myat Ko Ko
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Startup: Glance Technologies Singapore

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Han Yang and Koko combine their passion for technology and entrepreneurship, with Han Yang specialising in IT and Koko in startups and education. Together, they bring innovation to every project they tackle. Their venture, Glance.sg, is a student-run freelance talent platform backed by Enterprise Singapore, connecting employers with local talent across industries. Glance empowers freelancers and enhances business efficiency with flexible, cost-effective solutions.

(With research from Jillian Manuel)