What I Do - Venture Building

I work across three areas - consulting, education, and venture building. They're not separate tracks. Each one informs the others, and together they're what makes the work useful.

Not sure which area is most relevant for you? Most engagements end up drawing on more than one. Feel free to reach out and we can figure out what makes sense.

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Venture Building

I work directly with early-stage founders as a mentor, instructor, and advisor - helping them validate ideas, sharpen their business models, and prepare for growth. I've co-founded companies (I keep trying!), raised funding, and navigated the full early-stage journey myself. That experience is what makes the mentoring useful.

Through PIER71, 500 Startups, NTUitive, and my own programmes, I've worked with 200+ ventures across a large variety of industry domains and tech domains, and for both digital and deep tech.

My main focus is on the validation stage - helping founders test the right assumptions, quickly and cheaply, before committing significant resources.

Programmes & Startup Organizations I’ve worked with

PIER71 (Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore and NUS Enterprise)
NUS Enterprise
NUS Overseas Colleges
Start2 Group - German Accelerator
PhilDev (Philippines)
DOST-SEI - Department of Science & Technology (Philippines)
Technology for Sustainable Social Impact (TS2) Start-up Accelerator
500 startups
Ntuitive - VENI and Ideas (Nanyang Technological University)
LeanLaunchPad (Singapore)
Action Community for Entrepreneurs (ACE - Singapore)

Past Engagements

Pier 71 logo with the tagline 'Port Innovation Ecosystem Reimagined at BLOCK71'

PIER71 Maritime Tech Accelerator

Mentor-in-Residence and Lead Instructor/Facilitator for Singapore's maritime tech accelerator, supporting pre-seed and seed-stage startups on customer discovery, validation, business model design, and market access. Working with founding teams across hardware, software, and deep tech in the maritime and port sector. PIER71 is co-organized by the Marine & Port Authority of Singapore and NUS Enterprise.

3+ Years. Maritime Tech

Two 3D printers
A group of people seated around a conference table during a presentation or meeting in an office setting. The focus is on Randall in a red shirt speaking, with a large screen displaying a presentation in the background.
Several blue and purple cells floating in a medical or scientific setting

Structo (Co-Founder)

Co-founded a B2B deep tech company producing industrial 3D printers and resin for dental applications. Raised S$1.3M in seed funding. Holds a granted patent.

$1.3M raised. 1 Granted Patent

Instructor and mentor across 500 Startups, NTUitive VENI, and NUS Enterprise programmes - advising early-stage founders on validation strategy, pitch preparation, business model design, and growth. Worked with 200+ ventures across AI, MedTech, EdTech, Biotech, maritime, and social enterprise.

200+ Ventures. Multiple Programmes.

Global & Local Accelerator Mentorship

Spent a year embedded with a Singaporean stem cell startup. The core focus was designing and establishing the umbilical cord collection process - which meant navigating hospital partnerships, negotiating agreements, training staff (nurses and admin staff) and putting the right procedures in place across multiple institutions. The kind of early-stage work that doesn't make it into pitch decks but determines whether the business actually functions.

Year-long engagement. 2 hospitals.

Stem Cell Startup - Operations Setup