MedTech Actuator’s longest running early-stage innovation challenge has finally landed in Singapore!
Launching in Singapore in 2024, Origin is an intensive venture builder program that has over the last 10 years developed the entrepreneurial capabilities of over 2,500 clinicians, researchers, engineers, scientists, students, and inventors, and supported the creation of 120 startups – including a unicorn – that have gone on to raise more than A$750m (approximately SG$670m) of capital.
Origin fosters collaboration, inclusion, and input through creating dedicated channels for diverse participation, leveraging invaluable clinician insights, research technology and entrepreneurial business leaders.
Open to anyone with an innovative idea or early-stage startup in human health – including bio tech, med tech and digital health – grab your chance to win a cash and in-kind prize pack worth over SGD15,000, and fast-tracked entry into MedTech Actuator Accelerator 2025 program.
Join us at the Semi-final
Information Pack
MedTech Actuator Origin Singapore is sponsored by Enterprise Singapore.
Learn
from industry and ecosystem experts, founders, and MedTech Actuator
Validate
pressure test and transform your project into an early-stage startup
Network
connect with a cohort of like-minded entrepreneurs
Expose
your team to the MedTech, BioTech and HealthTech startup ecosystem in Singapore
Pitch
your project, idea or innovation to the ecosystem
Turbocharge
transform from idea into early-stage venture
Applications Open
June 10 to July 7
Information Session
June 25
Origin Oration with Synchron cofounder Prof. Nick Opie
July 1
Online Workshops (2-hour sessions)
July 17 & 18
2 Day Pitch Bootcamp
July 24 & 25
Semi-Final
July 25
3 Day Venture Bootcamp
September 3, 4 & 5
Singapore Showcase
September 6
▶️ 4 Finalists selected to pitch.
▶️ Origin Winner takes home a cash and in-kind prize pack worth over SGD$15K, and fast-tracked entry into MedTech Actuator Accelerator 2025.
Participant Profile and Eligibility
ANYONE with a healthtech innovation idea, napkin sketch drawing, or early-stage health technology startup can apply.
Health technology startup or idea means an innovative idea or early-stage startup or research project including tech products, services or platforms related to healthcare, life science, or medical technologies.
This includes individuals, teams or early-stage startups that hold a patent registered with an approved national IP institution; OR that have and ongoing research project; OR a napkin sketch of their idea.
