Imagine being stuck in a foreign land, unable to work and earn a living, afraid for your health, and worried about your family back home. Anxiety levels rise, tears are shed. You feel alone and trapped with no one to…
Gillian is the Co-Founder of Homage – an on-demand marketplace that matches caregivers and those who need help; think individuals who have elderly relatives who are ill at home or nursing homes that need extra help when they are short-staffed.…
Seeing should not be believing Information is literally at the tip of our fingertips today. At the same time, we are constantly bombarded with information from different sources, from user-generated sites like Instagram to centralized outlets like The Straits Times.…
As one of the leaders in the Southeast Asian startup scene, Grab definitely has a lot of eyes on it. Operating in nearly every major Southeast Asian market, Grab supports a growing number of drivers, merchants and consumers on its…
It’s likely that one of the apps you have running in the background relies on Google Cloud. With such a ubiquitous presence, it’s natural to ask how an organization like Google can make sure that its making an impact where…
Soft launched on March 22, by tech entrepreneur Nigel Teo and a team of 3 others, GoodHood now has more than 6000 users. Called the “Neighborhood Everyday App”, about 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the posts on…
Digital communities are not easy to build, but that doesn’t stop Kai from believing in the ability for people to get together. Kai Sotto focuses on how true communities fuel growth for companies. He helped catalyze Facebook’s growth discipline as…
On her shifts at dormitories housing COVID-positive patients, Dr Stephanie Ko quickly came face to face with the many challenges awaiting frontline medical staff: language barriers, pen-and-paper tracking of patient health information and limited onsite staff numbers, just to name…
You may have heard the saying: “An artist spend 10 years training hard just for 10 minutes of good stage time”. That only starts to describe the real pain felt when a well-anchored gig gets lost because of an unprecedented…
Hi, I’m Jason and I started a bunch of COVID-related projects during Circuit Breaker. One of the more interesting ones was Dabao Dash. The concept is simple. I was inspired by Mask Match – a US site matching healthcare workers…
