Building the Startup Ecosystem from Southeast Asia

Please join us for our 2025 Spring seminar series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries." Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley and the U.S.

On May 6th Dr. Benjamin Tee, a serial entrepreneur and Vice President at NUS Enterprise, as he shares his insights on building startup ecosystems across Southeast Asia. Drawing on his experiences as a founder, innovator, and academic leader, Dr. Tee will discuss how regional strengths, challenges, and cross-border collaborations are shaping the next wave of high-tech entrepreneurship.

Dr. Benjamin C.K. Tee is an Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore.

He was awarded the National Research Foundation Fellowship in 2017. He obtained his PhD at Stanford University, and was a 2014 Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Global Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow. He won the MIT TR35 Innovator (Global) award in 2015 and listed as World Economic Forum’s Young Scientist of the year in 2019. His research team won the International Winner of the James Dyson Foundation Prize in 2021 for their work on healthcare sensors. This was the 1st time a Singapore team won as the international winner in the award’s 17-year history.

He leads the Sensors.AI Labs that research and translate technologies at the cutting edge of materials science, mechanics, electronics and biology. His current focus is on developing new skin-like electronic materials and systems that have tremendous potential to advance robotics and healthcare technologies in an increasingly Artificial Intelligence (AI) era. His inventions can help to tackle challenging needs in health, robotics and AI.

He has translated technologies for real-world impact through entrepreneurial pursuits. He has co-founded two medical technology companies Privi Medical and Hannah Life Technologies in Singapore. Privi Medical was successfully acquired in 2021 and Hannah Life Technologies grew rapidly and reached double-digit percentage monthly revenue growth across international markets such as the US, UK and Singapore within 12 months of product launch.

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To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite.

To attend by Zoom, please register here.

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Parking options:

• Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Lasuen St. and Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking (A or C) and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm. Paid parking is enforced around The Oval until 6:00 pm.

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Our series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries" begins April 1, 2025 and continues weekly until June 3, 2025.

For our schedule of speakers, please visit our event page: https://asia.stanford.edu/course/entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/2025-entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/

Session Recordings are typically posted within 3 business days after each session on our .

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