Founder (CEO) - AI Catalyst Discovery Venture

ATUM Ventures • Singapore, Singapore • Posted June 28, 2026

Position Overview

Who We Are

ATUM is a Singapore deep-tech venture builder and investor. We build companies from breakthrough, IP-backed research, bringing capital, operational muscle, and partners from industry, VC, and government into every build. We've built and backed 15 ventures, and we invest in fast-scaling deep-tech with real fundamentals, not hype.

The Venture

Catalysts sit at the heart of the chemical and energy economy, behind the fuels, materials, and chemicals the world runs on, yet they're still discovered the way they were decades ago: slow, expensive, trial-and-error lab work that can take years and millions to find a single new catalyst.

We're building the company to change that.

The core is an AI-driven catalyst discovery platform, developed at A*STAR, that combines computational simulation, machine learning, and automated experimental validation into a single closed loop, discovering and validating novel, high-performa...