Winner of DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia 2015, Learn Education from Thailand leverages blended-learning technology to help teachers provide high-quality education to their students. This innovative approach has successfully: Deepened student engagement Increased student motivation in learning Improved academic performance as measured by national standardized test scores. Equipped students with…

More than S$200K of seed funding awarded to winning social enterprises working towards a more sustainable future Singapore, 12 June 2015 – DBS Foundation and NUS Enterprise today announced the winners of the 2015 DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia (SVC Asia), a business plan challenge that aims to identify and…

DBS Foundation & NUS are glad to present the 12 semifinalists to DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia 2015! Catch the exciting #SVCAsia Awards Ceremony on 12 June 2015! Register now! Select the different tabs below to view more information about each team in infographics style. Backstreet Academy (Cambodia) seeks to…

Congratulations to the 12 semi-finalists! Emerging top from the 683 entries received, we’re excited to meet these 12 teams in Singapore come June for the semi-finals and finals judging. The 12 semi-finalists are (the country in brackets denotes country of operation): Backstreet Academy (Cambodia) seeks to alleviate poverty in developing…

How one Indian social enterprise drew on inspiration, innovation and mentoring to build a training platform for rural health workers in India and beyond. India has the highest child mortality rate in the world, with nearly 1.65 million children dying in 2011 alone. Tragically, this is largely a result of…

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And it’s a wrap! Thank you for being a part of the inaugural DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia. The inaugural round of the Competition culminated on Friday, June 6th, 2014 at the Awards Ceremony in Singapore. The winners of this competition were announced at the Ceremony and they are -…

418 ideas, 140 judges, 8 months, and several pitches later… the top winners of the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge were finally chosen and revealed at the Awards Ceremony on June 6th in Singapore! In a turn of events, the prizes went not to the top three teams as originally planned, but the top…

You're invited to the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia Awards Ceremony! September 2013 marked the launch of the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, an Asia-wide competition for early-stage social enterprises. From over 400 breakthrough ideas, solving some of the most challenging problems in Asia, three social ventures will receive up…

September 2013 marked the launch of the inaugural DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, a regional competition for early-stage social enterprises in Asia. We had over 400 submissions representing more than 20 countries across Asia; all competing to win up to SGD 30,000 in seed-funding. Our judges have selected the 12…

September 2013 marked the launch of the inaugural DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, a regional competition for early-stage social enterprises in Asia. We had over 400 submissions representing more than 20 countries across Asia; all competing to win up to SGD 30,000 in seed-funding. Our judges have selected the 12…