October 2008
-Cap Vista is pleased to announce its investment in Lilliputian - a US company developing state-of-the-art MEMS micro fuel-cell s For more information on Lilliputian, please go to their website, http://www.lilliputiansystemsinc.com
September 2008
-The TechX Challenge Finals will be held on Sunday 21 Sep 2008 from 10am to 5pm at the Republic Polytechnic. Come and witness the ultimate race among the six team finalists! Don't miss the chance to discover robotics and operate robots at the Robotics Showcase! For more information on the event, please go to http://www.dsta.gov.sg/index.php/Upcoming-Events/
August 2008
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Cap Vista is proud to sponsor the Asian leg of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) semi-finals. The GSC is a premier business plan competition for security related startups organized by London Business School. Each winner of the regional semi finals in Asia, Europe and USA will compete for the grand prize of USD500 000 at the finals to be held in London in Nov 08 . The Asian leg is organized by NUS Enterprise and will take place on the 26 Sept 2008 1400hr to 1730hr at NUS Business School Hon Sui Sen Auditorium .
This year, we have a good diversity of participants from all over Asia in the semi-finals, they are: G.Tsulukidze Mining Institute of Georgia (Georgia), Hiperware ( Singapore), Lockstep Technologies ( Australia), Precision Sensors Instrumentation ( Armenia), Veritide Limited ( New Zealand). The keynote speaker will be RADM Joseph Leong, Head Joint Plans and Transformation Department, MINDEF.
The judges are from esteemed members of the defence and venture areana, namely, Mr Tan Peng Yam, Deputy Chief Executive (Operations), DSTA, Mr Pierre Hennes, Partner, Upstream Venture, Mr Eddie Chau, E-cop, Mr Todd Brethauer, TSWG, US Dept of Defence, Dr Tohru Kishi, Former VP of National Research Institue of Police Science, Japan and Prof Wong Poh Kam, Chairman of Business Angel Network ( SEA) Ltd. The topic for the panel discussion will be "Asian Security - Opportunities and Risks for Security Innovators". On the panel, we will have Dr Fong Saik Hay, President of ST Dynamics, Dr Roberto Mariani, CTO of XID Technologies and last year's Asian winner, Mr Foo Nian Chou, Chief Managed Services, NCS and Mr Lin Yih, Director & Founder of Digital Applied Research & Technology ( DART).
For more information on the competition, please go to http://www. globalsecuritychallenge.com
July 2008
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Cap Vista carried out a comprehensive review of local technology startups and SMEs to identify partnership opportunities. Young Singapore technology companies are also encouraged to take the initiative and approach Cap Vista directly. Please send a short executive summary of the business plan to info@capvista.com.sg
June 2008
-Cap Vista is proud to sponsor the Asian leg of Global Security Challenge 2008. In addition, there will be a chance for selected Asian entries to pitch their business ideas to esteemed members of the defence security community in as part of the fringe activities. For more information on the Global Security Challenge, please visit www.globalsecuritychallenge.com
April 2008
-Technology prospecting trip to Munich, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.
-Technology prospecting trip to Finland.
March 2008
-Technology prospecting trip to Santa Monica, USA.
January 2008
-Technology prospecting trip to Massachusetts, Michigan and New York, East Coast of US.
November 2007
-Technology prospecting trip to Sweden, UK and France.
September 2007
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Cap Vista invested in Ascendent Technologies Pte Ltd, which specializes in CERMET (metal infused ceramics) that can supersede the performance of conventional materials for industrial and military applications.
June 2007
- Cap Vista is proud to sponsor the inaugural Asian leg of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) semi-finals. The GSC is a premier business plan competition for security related companies organized by students from London Business School (LBS). Each winner of the regional semi finals in Asia, Europe and USA will compete for the grand prize of USD500 000 at the finals to be held in London in Nov 07. The Asian leg is organized by NUS Venture and will take place on the 12 Sept at NUS. For more information of the competition, please go to http://www.nus.edu.sg/enterprise/nec/gsc/index2.html
January 2007
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Demostration of Collexis's knowledge extraction technology to DSTA and Centre of Strategic Info-communication Technologies (CSIT).
November 2006
-Demonstration of Australian National University's flexible solar cells.
October 2006
-Establishment of Cap Vista Strategic Investment Framework Technology prospecting trip to Boston and Silicon Valley, USA.
September 2006
-Technology prospecting trip to Oxford, Northampton, Cambridge and Glasow, UK.
August 2006
-Cap Vista established strategic investment partnership
with Silicon Valley-based company, Rosum Corporation.
July 2006
-Technology prospecting trip to Florida and Seattle, USA, and Vancouver, Canada.
May 2006
-Visit by ex-CEO of CIA investment arm, In-Q-Tel, Mr Gilman Louie.
-Demostration of Neurosky's brainwaves sensing technology to DSTA and DSO National Laboratories.
-Technology prospecting trip to London and Cambridge, UK, and Munich, Germany February 2006
-Cap Vista sponsored national business plan Competition organised by Startup@Singapore, National University of Singapore.
January 2006
-Technology prospecting trip to Boston and San Francisco, USA.
-Demostration of ballistic body armour materials by Protectron Pte Ltd.
August 2005
-Cap
Vista partnered private equity investors 3i and EDBi
on a strategic investment in Denselight Semiconductors.
July 2005
-DARPA awarded technology development project to DenseLight Semiconductors.
- Technology prospecting trip to Silicon Valley, USA.
March 2005
-Cap Vista initiated dialogue between DenseLight Semiconductors and DARPA.
January 2005
-Technology prospecting trip to Canberra, Australia.
April 2003
11.04.2003
-Cap Vista Private Limited is incorporated.
02.12.2002
-MINDEF seeks ideas for military use.
30.11.2002
-DSTA sets up Technology Innovation Fund
to help small and medium enterprises.
29.11.2002
-DPM
Tony Tan's speech at the Defence Technology Prize
2002 award ceremony.
04.03.2002
-Singapore to fund technology initiatives.
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