Start-ups’ innovative ideas: Lab-made milk, matching migrant workers to jobs

SMU alumna Fengru Liu is the Chief Executive Officer of TurtleTree Labs – a start-up focusing on developing cell-based milk. TurtleTree was awarded $1 million in funding by Temasek Foundation last month, after winning this year's edition of The Liveability Challenge, which seeks solutions to some of the biggest problems faced by cities in South-east Asia. "Covid-19 has highlighted the need for food security and the fragility of our global logistics, global food supply system," said Ms Lin, noting that the firm has also been able to tap government support schemes and grants in its growth, such as the Startup SG Founder programme. [TurtleTree Labs is enrolled in SMU’s Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s flagship incubation programme, Business Innovations Generator.]

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