The Engine

Mila Ventures is building the Venture Scientist platform: an integrated venture-creation engine designed to translate frontier AI research into world-class companies - rooted in Canada, built for the world. Mila Ventures operates within Mila, a prestigious AI research institute based in Montréal, founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and a pioneer of deep learning. The platform brings together: Mila Venture Studio (co-creating companies with professors, students, and entrepreneurs) Mila Accelerator (early company building and scaling) Venture Scientist Academy (training researchers to become venture builders) The Mila Venture Fund (in formation) We operate at the intersection of AI research, venture creation, and capital, working closely with Mila's globally renowned researchers, students, founders, investors, corporate partners, and public institutions.

The world has hard problems to solve, and answers are urgently needed. We help entrepreneurs on a mission to solve these hard problems build companies. We believe Singapore has the resources and capabilities to tackle the pressing challenges impacting people around the world. SGInnovate has been established to help these ambitious and capable people to build 'technology-intensive' products borne out of scientific research, leveraging the full power of the Singapore ecosystem to achieve this mission. Investment Capital Singapore has over $1b+ of private-market funds and another $1b+ of public-sector funds. Government Singapore remains one of the most attractive and trusted places to build companies, in large part due to our economic competitiveness, as well as political and operational stability. Research A global research and innovation hub, S$25B has been committed to Singapore's latest Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) five-year plan, covering domains such as healthcare, sustainability and manufacturing, through to 2025. Corporate Backing Singapore brings together over 7000 regional and global corporations who represent go-to-market help, joint product development, investment funding and possible exits. World Class Institute of Higher Learning Singapore is home to two of the top 20 globally-ranked universities.

We use our domain expertise, network, and prior experiences to help our founders scale commercialization, product, and engineering. Post-science project investing We recognize that starting and building a company is hard. Startups by definition are outliers being built by unique collections of humans. We utilize our deep domain expertise to uniquely understand the problems of companies in the categories we care about. Pairing this with our experience working with deep technology, allows us to provide leverage in taking a company from pre, to post-commercialization and building engineering teams across both research and production-level eng.

CDL has designed a new approach to enterprising research and innovation, nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset through expert opinion, funding opportunities, research analysis, and business development support. CDL’s objective-setting process enhances the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their probability of success. The Program involves:Mentorship from select entrepreneurs and angel investors: the Fellows and Associates Intensive full-day sessions with the CDL Mentors take place every eight weeks with the purpose of assessing progress and setting new short-term objectives. Fellows and Associates provide professional judgment (entrepreneurial knowledge) to help guide CDL Ventures and prioritize actions. The program is designed for early-stage, science-based technology companies, though we consider all applicants based on their potential to scale and the viability of their product. CDL’s objective-setting process enhances the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their probability of success. Opportunities to raise capital CDL Mentors are made up of a carefully selected group of exited entrepreneurs, angel investors, and partners from leading venture capital firms. These participants often invest in ventures that demonstrate a track record of achieving their objectives. Advice on technology roadmaps from CDL’s Chief Scientists World-renowned experts from leading academic institutions provide technical feedback to founders and advise the Fellows and Associates on objectives related to technology validation. Business development support from top students Business school students work to support ventures including developing financial models, evaluating potential markets, and fine-tuning strategies for scaling. Twelve locations globally CDL operates five sites in Canada, three in the United States and four in Europe. Launched in 2012 at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, the program has now expanded with locations in Oxford (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Paris (HEC Paris), Atlanta (Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology), Madison (Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Seattle (University of Washington, Foster School of Business), Berlin (European School of Management and Technology), Tartu (Delta Management School, University of Tartu), Vancouver (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia), Montreal (HEC Montréal), Calgary (Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary), and Halifax (Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University).

We invest in high growth companies involved in deep technology within the Electronics & Electrical (E&E) sector and in Renewable Energy/Green Technology. We are mandated to focus on technology development in support of the Government’s Malaysia Plan. That’s why we invest more than capital – we invest our time, expertise, and network in our portfolio companies. Venture capital for us is not just about investing in the “right” companies. It is about strong partnerships with dedicated entrepreneurs, who are devoted to making their ideas become reality – just like we are. Every one of us at KMP is willing to walk the extra mile in a bid to make each project we get involved in a success. How We Do It?Drive performance through operational guidance and industrial networks opportunities Support entrepreneurs in delivering outstanding results and yield high potential returns Optimize risk allocation across portfolio through attentive due diligence

Many of IAG's innovations began as seed ideas in Firemark. We identified their potential, invested in their development and accelerated their growth. By building an incubation ecosystem across industry, venture capital, academia and government, we identify systems of opportunity to explore, evaluate and commercialise. Four cities Our cross-functional hubs in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Auckland, provide access to a breadth of talent and depth of experience to develop ideas that deliver business impact. Three functions Futures. Ventures. Labs. The ability of our different functional areas and skill sets to work (and play) together gives us a competitive advantage.