Eligibility for EntrePass

The registered company raised funding of at least $100,000 from a government investment vehicle, venture capitalist (VC) or business angel that is recognised by a Singapore Government agency.

Examples include:

• Vertex Ventures
• Qualified investors on the StartupSG Equity scheme
• Venture partners on the Early Stage Venture Fund (ESVF) scheme

The registered company is an existing incubatee at an incubator or accelerator in Singapore that is recognised by the Government.

Examples include:

• Incubators or accelerators in Enterprise Singapore’s Startup SG Accelerator Programme
• Accredited Mentor Partners under Startup SG Founder

You have significant business experience or network and promising entrepreneurial track record of starting highly-scalable businesses and want to start and operate an innovative tech or venture-backed business in Singapore.

Requirements

You must fulfil any of the following:

• You have founded and sold a tech company.
• You have raised significant funding from investors for a current or past venture.
• You have been or are being incubated by an internationally renowned incubator or accelerator.
• You can demonstrate how your business networks and track record can contribute to the growth of your proposed business in Singapore (e.g. produce a letter of intent from prospective customers).

You or the registered company holds an intellectual property (IP), registered with an approved national IP institution, which delivers a significant competitive advantage to your proposed business that cannot be easily replicated.

Requirements

You must fulfil all of the following:

• Your IP must be registered with an approved national IP institution.
• Your IP delivers a competitive advantage to your proposed business and cannot be easily replicated.
• One of the shareholders or the company must be the owner of the IP.
• Expired IP can be considered as long as one of the shareholders is the inventor of the IP.

The registered company has an ongoing research collaboration with a research institution under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), an Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) in Singapore.

Examples include:

• A*STAR Research Institutes
• Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) entities
• Institutes of Higher Learning (e.g. National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Management University, the Polytechnics)
• Recognised non-profit and private sector research groups

Requirements

You must fulfil all of the following:

• The research collaboration must be related to your proposed business.
• The research institution needs to provide a contact person to verify details of the research collaboration.
• You must be involved with ongoing research collaboration.
• Contract of services is not considered to be research collaboration.

You have exceptional technical or domain expertise in an area related to your proposed business that is either venture-backed or owns innovative technologies.

Requirements

You must fulfil all of the following:

• Your area of expertise must be related to your proposed business.
• You have outstanding achievements or received international recognition in your area of technical or domain expertise.

You have a good track record of investing in businesses and want to grow new or existing businesses in Singapore by starting an investment-related company.

Requirements

You are willing to invest a substantial amount of money in other local tech startups and can provide supporting documents to show that you have one of the following:

• A strong track record of investing in and driving growth of highly-scalable businesses.
• Plans (i.e. quantum, period and pipeline) to invest in other local innovative or tech startups.
• At least 8 years' experience as a senior management professional or executive in a large corporation that can help to scale up local innovative or tech startups.