Start-up Growth Manager
About the job
- Three to five years of experience in startup ecosystem development or a related role.
- Strong relational and communication skills to secure trust and buy-in from founders, mentors, investors, and institutional partners across cultures.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to multitask from start to finish.
- Experience establishing alignment and attribution between start-up support activities and organizational outcomes.
- Ability to galvanise support for owned initiatives and reciprocate across other initiatives and functions.
- Oversee the PIER71 Landing Pad, a structured soft-landing initiative that enables start-ups with promising technologies and clear commitment to access mentorship, fundraising, market entry, and ecosystem connectivity.
- Design and iterate offerings to drive start-up growth in revenue, capital access, team, and market expansion.
- Analyse the effectiveness of offerings against PIER71 outcomes, such as revenue growth and collaborations secured, and recommend improvements.
- Maintain and evolve the start-up engagement strategy and calendar across PIER71 initiatives, and grow start-up participation in mentorship, peer learning, and ecosystem events.
- Manage end-to-end relationships with Landing Pad start-ups to support participation, retention, satisfaction, metrics capture, and start-up growth.
- Support start-up onboarding and offboarding processes with Finance and Administration, including documents, checklists, and turnaround times.
- Manage Landing Pad contributors.
- Grow and strengthen relationships with Landing Pad contributors, including mentors, domain experts, and consultants.
- Convert Landing Pad contributors into active inputs, including mentoring hours, office hours, workshops, connections, and investor-readiness support.
- Equip Landing Pad contributors and communicate with them regularly to ensure they can support effectively, including preparing and distributing materials on time.
- Build relationships and partnerships with maritime-related entrepreneurship-support organisations and government-linked entities through NUSX presence across North and South America, including BLOCK71 U.S.
- Support market entry for international start-ups from the Americas and market expansion of local start-ups into those regions.
- Familiarity with the maritime or deep-tech sector.
- Exposure to cross-border startup support or market-entry initiatives, preferably involving the Americas.
- A bachelor's degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, or a related discipline.
About the company
NUS Enterprise supports and grows entrepreneurship at the National University of Singapore. It seeds ideas, sparks innovations, and scales ventures from campus into global companies by offering experiential learning, ecosystem building, technology translation and commercialisation, and strategic global partnerships. It has helped nearly 4,300 students and over 3,000 start-ups, including 10 unicorns, and aims to improve the lives of 1 billion people in the next decade by building a worldwide innovation network. Their approach combines education, mentorship, access to resources and markets, and collaborations to turn research and ideas into real-world impact.
Company Size
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Company Stage
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Total Funding
$2.9M
Headquarters
Singapore, Singapore
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- June 2026 brought Playground Global and Matter Venture Partners into the US$117 million NUS VC programme.
- The Studio in Silicon Valley gives founders labs, prototyping, and direct market validation.
- UnternehmerTUM partnership opens European customers, investors, and talent for NUS deep-tech startups.
What critics are saying
- Nova cannot fix NUS’s unlicensed IP glut; 70%-80% of university patents stay unlicensed.
- Shanghai and Munich outposts demand local dealflow; thin execution turns expansion into overhead.
- If NUS ventures never produce a $100 million company by 2035, NUSX becomes branding theater.
What makes NUS Enterprise unique
- Sept. 24, 2026 rebrand to NUSX unifies venture building and IP commercialization.
- Nova scans 20,000 patents and 9,000 projects, compressing commercialization from weeks to minutes.
- NUSX now spans Silicon Valley, Munich, and Shanghai across research, capital, and talent.
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Company News
NUS Enterprise has rebranded as NUSX, expanding its role as an integrated venture-building and IP commercialisation platform. The transformation aligns with Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2030 plan, which commits S$37 billion over five years. NUSX is establishing global outposts beyond Silicon Valley to include Munich and Shanghai, providing deep tech ventures with access to overseas markets, partners and investors. The platform launched Nova, an AI-powered engine developed with Zima Labs that analyses patents and identifies commercial opportunities in minutes, drawing on over 20,000 NUS patents and 9,000 research projects. NUSX has partnered with UnternehmerTUM to strengthen its presence in Munich's innovation ecosystem. The platform focuses on four deep tech areas: Logic, Pulse, Resilience and Matter. By 2035, NUSX aims to create at least one venture generating over $100 million in annual revenue.
US venture capital firms Playground Global and Matter Venture Partners have joined NUS Enterprise's US$117 million VC Programme, gaining access to Singapore's deep tech startup ecosystem. The partnerships will connect promising Singaporean startups in AI, biotech, quantum technologies and advanced materials with US markets and venture networks. NUS Enterprise will establish its first global outpost at Playground Global's 70,000-square-foot Silicon Valley facility, The Studio, providing NUS-backed founders with laboratories, prototyping workshops and market exposure to validate technologies and refine product-market fit. The NUS VC Programme comprises US$39 million in investments across selected VC firms and US$78 million reserved for co-investments in NUS-affiliated startups. Since 2001, NUS Enterprise has nurtured 10 unicorns and over 3,000 startups.
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