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

Liquid cooling is fast becoming the backbone of the AI data center, and the coolant running through it is now mission-critical. Yet the fluid is still watched the way it was decades ago: manual sampling and lab send-outs that take days, catching corrosion only after the damage is done.

We're building the company to change that.

The core is an inline coolant-monitoring platform, developed at NTU, that uses laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to read the coolant in real time, identifying and quantifying the dissolved metals that signal corrosion, down to which component is degrading and how fast. The optical monitors entering the market today read the fluid indirectly; this one measures the metals directly, which they cannot.

The first market is coolant monitoring for data center operators, where a reliability and compliance gap is opening fast as the industry shifts to direct liquid cooling and no inline elemental product yet exists. It's a platform-led deep-tech company at the centre of the AI infrastructure build-out, with real technology, validated demand, and a clear path to category leadership.

The Role

You'll be the founding CEO. You own the commercial side of the business: who buys this, what they pay for it, how it gets sold, and how the company gets funded. You'll work alongside a founding CTO, the NTU inventors as technical advisors, and a dedicated ATUM venture team.

Together, we'll:

• Turn early operator interest into paid pilots, then into repeatable contracts
• Set the product positioning and pricing, and build the business case that gets a data center operator to approve the spend
• Raise pre-seed and seed capital alongside the CTO and ATUM
• Build the founding team and the commercial organisation
• Open up the channels: colocation and hyperscale operators, cooling OEMs, and their service partners

This is not a job. It's a founding journey where you share the risk, the upside, and the impact.

Requirements

• B2B sales track record: You've sold technical products or infrastructure to industrial, data center, energy, or process customers. Long sales cycles, several people in the room, and you carried the number.
• New product sales: You've sold something new, something the customer wasn't buying before, and built the business case to get it approved internally.
• Comfortable with hardware: You understand pilots, deployment costs, service models, and what it takes to go from one site to fifty. You can hold your own with engineers without being one.
• Fundraising: You've raised from investors or grant bodies, or you can show clearly why you'd be able to.
• A builder, not a passenger: You self-start, run at ambiguity, and own outcomes. You've done zero-to-one before and you know what it takes.
• Resilient & ready: You have the runway to commit full-time, and you know building deep-tech hardware takes grit, iteration, and patience.

Benefits

Why Build With Us

• A validated starting point: Real technology, validated demand, real expertise, not a blank page.
• Founder-led: You're the CEO, with meaningful founding equity.
• Funding-ready: ATUM backs the build with pre-seed capital and grant access, plus follow-on funding from our investor network.
• Hands-on partners: We're in the trenches with you on product, GTM, and fundraising, not just on the cap table.
• Domain access: Labs, technical experts, early adopters, and an ecosystem already engaged.