Dr. Viveka KALIDASAN
Founder and CEO of The Edify Project
Dr. Viveka is the Founder and CEO of The Edify Project, a one-stop venture building partner that serves startups, academia, corporates and individuals alike. Her flagship ‘The Industry 5.0 Women’, venture building programme is a first of its kind programme that is committed to bring more women in the industry 5.0 space and help them spearhead ventures. Edify also engages in multi-pronged mentorship and brand building, global expansion activities.
In her capacity as the Director of Venture Building and Business Development (APAC) with Vertical Velocity Ventures, she helps ventures (SMEs and startups) and corporates, scale into SG & APAC. This includes business analysis of existing ecosystem, identifying new market opportunities and increasing the visibility of the ventures.
She has built from scratch, the innovation lab of Ultra Clean Holdings Inc., (UCT) in Singapore, called Let-Lab. Through her pregnancy and maternity, in less than a year ,she created Singapore’s industry 4.0 ecosystem, while empowering startups in the space, that solve unmet needs in semiconductor industry 4.0 space.
As an Innovator and Technopreneur,she has developed and commercialised patient-centric deeptech medical devices with spotlight on FemTech solutions, with a holistic focus on the R&D, clinical & regulatory pathways and commercialization of medtech.