“My stint in those programmes gave me the advantage of training students to further develop their entrepreneurial mindset, said Zamri (left).
GROWING up in a family of entrepreneurs, Zamri Abdullah learnt to hone his skills in spotting a solid business opportunity and making the most of it.
He further armed himself by participating in an American seed accelerator Techstars, HexGn Startup Ready Acceleration Program and Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC).
“My stint in those programmes gave me the advantage of training students to further develop their entrepreneurial mindset.
“I’ve developed my own training modules for this programme and also created seven more, called Kickstart, in my startup module, ” said Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)’s Technopreneurship Office manager Zamri.
MOSTI launches Malaysia Grand Challenge, supported by 5 funds 08 Jan 2021 / 15:48 H.
PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) has launched the Malaysia Grand Challenge (MGC), which is supported by five research and development (R&D) funding schemes amounting to RM220 million under the Pemacu Strategic Technology Fund (PEMACU).
The schemes are namely the Strategic Research Fund (SRF), Technology Development Fund 1 (TeD1), Technology Development Fund 2 (Ted2), Bridging Fund (BGF), and the Applied Innovation Fund (AIF), for which 114 products are expected to be commercialised this year.
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the MGC was aimed at spurring the country’s research, development, commercialisation and innovation (R&D&C&I) activities in the quest to prioritise science, technology and innovation to turn Malaysia a high-tech country.
THE venture capital industry in Malaysia is reaching an inflection point, says Singapore-based private-equity firm CMIA Capital Partners and Malaysia-based Bintang Capital Partners Bhd.
They see a great deal of activity in terms of demand for capital. “The challenge now is to identify suitable sources of funding for these innovative ideas and shape them into a business that can achieve significant scale and impact in the country,” they said in a joint reply to The Edge.
Pandu Sjahrir, founding partner at AC Ventures an early-stage technology venture fund that focuses on investing in Indonesia’s digital disruptors concurs, noting that the local venture capital market has roughly doubled in size in the last decade in terms of capital inflows to just over US$2 billion (RM8 billion), with about half of this amount disbursed to investments.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 28): As economies across the world start to emerge from lockdown, business leaders are reassessing their plans and projections to accommodate the new normal, and creating opportunities for startups.
In a statement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) head of startup ecosystem for Asia Pacific-Japan Gaurav Arora said many startups already possess one of the qualities that could prove most beneficial in the post-pandemic world business agility.
“But being agile and moving fast is just the beginning. Startups also have to look for opportunities to pull unnecessary costs out of their business, forge new links to partners and customers, and ensure their employees are continually developing new skills.