Specialist firm coming to S'pore to spot and groom tech talent

Singapore

LONDON-based Entrepreneur First (EF) - not your usual startup accelerator - may prove to be a bright spark for Singapore as the latter steps up efforts to groom the next generation of tech creators and transform into a value-creating economy.

Backed by Infocomm Investments (IIPL, the venture arm of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore), EF seeks to assemble and fund the best technical talent - not ideas - to build startups from scratch. EF is considering expanding to Singapore, believed to be as early as this year.