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Free tier	Competitive grant for deep-tech commercialisation with a POC cap of SGD 400,000 and a POV cap of SGD 800,000, both raised on 2 January 2025 from SGD 250,000 and SGD 500,000. The grant carries an equity component: Enterprise Singapore holds the right to subscribe to shares, and paid-up capital of 10 percent of the POC grant or 20 percent of the POV grant must be shown before award. unit none; metered on wall-clock; grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated The applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D activities ... in Singapore', so a foreign founder with no Singaporean shareholder fails the ownership test before the project is read. source The applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D activities ... in Singapore', so a foreign founder with no Singaporean shareholder fails the ownership test before the project is read.
Binding	write-gated The applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D activities ... in Singapore', so a foreign founder with no Singaporean shareholder fails the ownership test before the project is read.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The 30 percent local-ownership rule is what makes this hard to compose: a foreign founder must bring a Singaporean or PR shareholder holding a third of the company before the SGD 800,000 becomes visible, which is a different cost from the capital contribution the grant asks for.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Three gates were considered. (a) Singapore incorporation: confirmed, but it is the cheapest of the three and a foreigner can incorporate a Pte Ltd without a resident director only by appointing a nominee. (b) Local shareholding of 30 percent: confirmed, and this is the binding one, because it is an ownership test rather than a registration step. (c) A paid-up capital requirement: confirmed at 10 or 20 percent of the grant, which for the POV cap is SGD 160,000 that must exist before award, so the grant is really a matching instrument. The 'artificial intelligence (e.g. deep learning)' line under Information & Communications Technologies is the only sub-area that names AI directly, so a project must be framed inside one of the five listed areas to qualify at all.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (6)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi	'The grant cap for POC will remain at SGD400,000'; 'the grant cap for POC projects has been raised from the previous cap of SGD250,000 to SGD400,000', quoted
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi	'The grant cap for POV will remain at SGD800,000'; raised 'from the previous cap of SGD500,000', quoted
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi	'Company has at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s), determined by the ultimate individual ownership', quoted
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi	'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years at time of grant application'; 'Core R&D activities to be carried out in Singapore'; 'Company is not a subsidiary of a corporate entity at point of incorporation', quoted
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech/eligibi	'startups will be required to demonstrate existing paid-up capital equivalent to at least 10% of the POC grant' and '20% of the POV grant', quoted
2026-10-22	www.startupsg.gov.sg/programmes/4897/startup-sg-tech	'the grant will also carry an equity component where Enterprise Singapore will have the rights to exercise a share subscription', quoted, page last updated 2025-09-18

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

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$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
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$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated