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Dr. Viveka Kalidasan
Trustee
Singapore
Dr. Viveka Kalidasan is Founder and CEO of River Ventures, the world's first deep tech ecosystem venture builder and accelerator focused on Industry 5.0, backed by Enterprise Singapore.
She was among the pioneers bringing the venture studio model to Asia Pacific, and works across venture building, fundraising and investor relations, corporate innovation and public-private collaboration, with particular depth in advanced manufacturing, medtech and global market entry across APAC, the Middle East and the US.
She previously built Let-Lab, the Singapore innovation lab of Ultra Clean Holdings, from scratch. A researcher by training, her work on wireless sensing sutures was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering and featured on the journal's October 2021 cover. Viveka is co-founder of the Safe Space Collective for Women Trailblazers, founder of River Transformation Hub and sits on the board of the Singapore South Asia Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She has been recognised as one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35, one of Singapore's Top 100 Women in Technology and an NUS Outstanding Young Alumni.
Viveka joined the Board of the Bridge Institute in September 2026 and plays a key role in expanding its work in South-East Asia and South Asia.