The Nucleate Story

Nucleate was founded in 2019 under the umbrella of the Harvard Biotech Club, Boston, Massachusetts. Since then, chapters have sprung up across the world offering a variety of lecture-based courses, hands-on training and professional development programmes tailored to the specific needs of the region's biotech ecosystem. Nucleate’s flagship Activator programme has cumulatively launched more than 250 global bioventures and raised over US$180 million since its inaugural edition in 2019.
The Singapore National Chapter aims to address the needs of the Singapore Biotech Ecosystem. We have come far in the past 20 years, but there is still so much to do, so much to learn.

Our Mission

We aspire to:
  • To build new and accessible local communities of life science enthusiasts where ideas can flow freely
  • To plug the gaps in our local biotech ecosystem in support of Singapore’s mission to be a global biotech hub
  • To connect Singapore’s biotech network to the global Nucleate network

Nucleate’s Core Values

We strive for positive impact.

We empower people who aim to improve the world through scientific ventures.

We explore new ideas with curiosity and courage.

We are open-minded and actively seek diverse perspectives. We are always willing to hear new ideas and take calculated risks in pursuit thereof.

We communicate openly and honestly.

We value constructive feedback and open discourse. We encourage intellectual evolution and admit mistakes.

We collaborate among ourselves and with others.

We give help freely. We ask for help when we need it. We bring people together and build community.

We include diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.

Every person has a seat at our table. We are conscious of our biases. We welcome new perspectives.

We say what we’ll do, and we do what we say.

We work hard to help our people succeed. We follow through.

We are humble.

We serve our teams. We are fortunate for our community support, and we put in effort to keep it.

We leave a ladder down. 

We identify and empower the next generation.

We bridge the ecosystem and reduce redundancies.

Our unique educational programs break down silos and promote cross-ecosystem collaboration. We collaborate rather than compete with others who share this mission.

We are for trainees, by trainees.

We uniquely understand the needs of our own community. We build what we want to learn.