Founder (CEO) - Metal Additive Manufacturing Venture at ATUM Ventures

Singapore, , Singapore -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Jun, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Commercial Strategy, Go-to-market Strategy, Fundraising, Capital Equipment Sales, Unit Economics, Business Model Development, Additive Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Precision Equipment, Strategic Partnerships, Team Building, Revenue Generation

Industry

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

Description

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 Metal 3D printing forces a brutal trade-off. Powder-bed systems give you precision, but with hazardous metal powder, inert-gas handling, heavy capex, and punishing post-processing. Wire and deposition systems skip the powder but can't hold fine features or surface finish. For small, high-precision, geometrically complex metal parts, there's no clean option. We're building the company to change that. The core is a powder-free metal 3D printing platform, developed at NTU, that builds fully dense parts straight from sheet metal, no powder, no inert chamber for steel, a compact footprint, and simple operation, while hitting feature sizes and surface finish that powder-free processes have never reached. Internal channels, fully enclosed cavities, and overhangs that incumbent processes can't produce cleanly. The technology is real and already in the market: paid pilots with hospitals, automation players, and heat-exchanger OEMs, multiple proof-of-concept builds, and a beta machine shipping in 2026. It's backed by Singapore's national additive manufacturing programme and a strategic manufacturing partner taking it from prototype to commercial-grade system. This is a hardware-led, capital-equipment company, with machine sales plus high-margin consumables and service, selling into R&D labs first, then heat-exchanger and biomedical manufacturers. A long game, with a defensible technical position and a clear path to category leadership. The Role You'll be the founding commercial CEO. You'll own commercial strategy, go-to-market, fundraising, and building the company into a real business, alongside a strong technical founding team and the inventor, backed by a dedicated ATUM venture team and a strategic manufacturing partner. Together, we'll: Turn paid pilots and LOIs into repeatable machine sales and a real install base Shape the business model and pricing across machines, consumables, and service Drive the move from the R&D-lab beachhead into the higher-value heat-exchanger and biomedical markets Raise pre-seed and seed capital, and build out the founding team Take the product from beta to deployed, revenue-generating systems at scale This is not a job. It's a founding journey where you share the risk, the upside, and the impact. Who You Are Capital-equipment operator: You've built, sold, or scaled industrial machines, instruments, or hardware into manufacturers, R&D labs, or medical-device buyers. You know how the capex sale actually works: long cycles, technical buyers, and the service and consumables that make the economics. Advanced-manufacturing-fluent: Background in additive manufacturing, precision equipment, industrial automation, or a comparable hardware domain. You don't need to be the technologist, you need to sell to one and earn their trust. Field-tested: You've been on the factory floor, in the lab, across the table from engineering and procurement. You turn real-world pain into commercial traction. Commercially sharp: You think in unit economics, sales cycles, and razor-and-blade models, and you can lead a deep technical team without deferring to them. A builder, not a passenger: You self-start, run at ambiguity, and own outcomes. You don't wait to be told what to do next. Resilient & ready: You have the runway to commit full-time, and you know building hardware in a real industry takes grit and patience. Why Build With Us A validated starting point: Real technology, paying pilots, a beta machine, and a manufacturing partner, not a blank page. Founder-led: You're the CEO, with meaningful founding equity in a cap table built to back you. Funding-ready: ATUM and a strategic co-investor back the build with pre-seed capital and grant access, plus follow-on funding from our additive-manufacturing 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, supply-chain partners, and a national AM ecosystem already engaged.

Responsibilities

Lead the commercial strategy, go-to-market execution, and fundraising efforts to scale a powder-free metal 3D printing venture. Transform paid pilots into repeatable machine sales and expand from R&D labs into biomedical and heat-exchanger markets.